I have a confession to make. I love the idea of growing squash and storing it over the winter. There are so many beautiful colors,...

One thing I’ve always wanted to do, but never quite gotten around to, is put in a fall vegetable garden. The problem I’ve always run into...

Every gardener knows the joy of harvesting the fruits of your labor, and today was a great harvest day at 5R Farm. It’s a good thing too,...

As a long-time gardener and Oregon resident, the battle to prevent slugs from devouring the garden has become an annual ritual. The first...

It’s been a long time coming, and finally the veggie garden planting is complete. It started with chainsawing and stump grinding back in...

After several months of planning, accompanied by lots of backbreaking labor (although luckily Sean has done most of it!), today was the...

The planting continued last weekend at 5R Farm. I planted 10 raspberry canes that I dug up and potted from my garden in Portland last...

This weekend it was all about the wood at 5R Farm. We built cedar raised beds for the garden, planted trees, and gathered logs for...

It certainly was an exciting weekend at the farm! This is the site of our future vegetable garden, and it had 5 stumps that we needed to...

Well, okay maybe not quite, but with February right around the corner it is almost time for planting bare root trees and shrubs. What is...

There are two big projects on the to do list for the spring of 2012. We’ll be putting in the vegetable garden and also building a large...