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Recipes

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Complete Organic Fertilizer Recipe
 

  • 1–50 pound bag small rabbit pellets

  • 1-40 or 50 pound bag of rice bran pellets

  • 1 – 50 pound bag of rolled oats

  • 1–50 pound bag of crushed oyster shells or Oyster shell powder.

 

All these ingredients get mixed in equal parts.

Application rate is half of a 5 gallon bucket for every 50 foot bed that is approximately 30 inches wide. COF should be applied once in spring and once in fall.
Apply COF along with compost prior to planting.
It’s best to lightly cultivate in with a digging fork or a garden rake.

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Easy ingredients are available throughout San Diego County at feed stores that cater to horses and livestock.
Is best to store this soil food in galvanized trash cans. It is recognized as a food source and if it’s stored in plastic containers rats or mice can chew through the container to get to this food.

 

 

Seed Starting Mix

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  • 2 parts peat moss

  • 1 part perlite

  • 1 part sand

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Up-Potting Mix

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  • 2 parts peat moss

  • 4 parts perlite

  • 1 part sand

  • 4 parts sifted compost OR 2 parts compost & 2 parts worm casting

  • pinch of COF

  • pinch of mycorrhizal inoculant 

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Supplies
 

General Farm Supplies
FarmTek
Felco- Pruners
Bahco- Pruners
Corona- Hand saws
Farmers friend tools and tunnels
Earth way seeder
Jang seeder
Neversink farm
Hoss tools
Paperpot co
Earth Tools
BCS America

Seeds and Growing Supplies
Filaree Garlic
Forever Young Farm - Garlic
Mad River Garlic Growers
San Diego Seed Company
Territorial Seeds
Turtle Tree Seeds
Seeds Savor’s Exchange
Native Seed Search
True Love Seeds
Adaptive Seeds
Victory Seeds
Fedco Seeds
Jonny’s Seeds
High Mowing Seeds
Kitazawa Seeds

Irrigation Supplies
DripWorks
Dubois Agroinovation Supplies

 

Useful Links

Beekeeping in San Diego

Register your apiary. Apiary registration includes notifications of application of commercial pesticides in nearby areas, notifications of disease and pest infestations, and assistance of county apiary inspector in detecting and/or identification of apiary pest and diseases. Useful links and files:

University of California Cooperative Extension – San Diego (helpful beekeeping information and beekeeping best management practices video

10 Steps to Beekeeping

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UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
For the Gardener "tip sheet" series offers information on organic gardening and fruit trees care topics. Tip sheets can be downloaded from this page.


California Farm Link, Resource Library
Articles on: 

  • land access

  • starting a farm business

  • getting a loan

  • business management

  • and much more!


National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
FREE downloads for how to start your own farming business including farm business planning, marketing, labor laws, land acquisition and more.

ATTRA 
ATTRA is a program developed and managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). The majority of funding for ATTRA is through a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. We are also partially funded through sales and subscriptions of a portion of ATTRA materials and through contributions from friends and supporters. We are committed to providing high value information and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.


USDA's Conservation of Natural Resources Webinar
Free webinars on a variety of topics, including a 4-part series on Environmental Benefits of Organic Agriculture.

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