Market Farming

["Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>]

Adam, have you gone and looked at Mike and Laurie's that they got a couple of year's ago? The Baker Farm also has one. We have a borrowed mulch layer that doesn't raise a bed, but you are welcome to come look after the snow melts.

 

I keep wondering how I could adapt the Farmall Cub or Allis G to throw up a bed, and I would lay the little plastic we use by hand. We do have a moldboard plow for the Cub, and we can make a narrow bed, but I want beds on 4 foot centers. Seems like a couple of inward facing plows mounted on a toolbar so they were not in the center might work. Or just furrowers? We have a fairly heavy loam, which takes more umphh to raise a bed than it would on a sand.

 

Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead
Peru NY
http://rhomestead.com

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used."  - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Francis Moore Lappe

 

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of a h
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:06 PM
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Subject: [Market-farming] Mulch layers and Bed Shapers?

I have been contemplating the purchase or construction of a mulch layer and bed shaper, individual or combination.

 

I was curious if anyone has attempted to make one themselves. I am an avid welder and am confident in constructing them i just have never seen on in person.

 

The bed shaper seems easy but the mulch layer i was not sure if there is tension via a spring on the roll or what.

 

Other than the construction aspect i was curious what your thoughts on them is? Brands? Costs?

 

thanks,

adam