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- From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:47:00 -0400
Seeds will, as they always do, winter over. They have a nice heavy hull. Freezing temps kill plant. Seriously, buckwheat is a GREAT cash crop that has been left by the wayside. Farmers used to grow it everywhere in rotation with other crops. Its one of these magical crops that does things to the soil that other crops do not. Its not a nitrogen hog. It produces a seed that can be milled into a flour. It smothers undesirables as a cover crop. It has a fast growing time and can be planted after a wheat harvest or before wheat planting. Yet its fallen out of favor for wheat, soybeans, and corn. Its pure dumb. Any grain farmer these days should be growing anywhere between 4 to 7 different types of cash and cover crops to be sustainable and no one is except a few individuals who get it. Even our farm isn't really on board in part because of flood plain, but that is slowly changing as we try to figure out how to do it with potatoes, corn, and, forage crops. Oh yeah, and its a great honey crop. Bees LOVE it and it produces an almost molasses like honey (both in flavor and color). I love buckwheat. I would not companion plant it with another crop (I define this as interplanting the cash crop crop with the buckwheat...or over seeding and existing crop. Its not like , say, planting pasture/hay mix in soybeans prior to harvest, which works great. Richard Stewart Carriage House Farm North Bend, Ohio An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855 (513) 967-1106 |
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?
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- Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?, Jay Sleichter, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Mac, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
grizzdover, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Richard Stewart, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Thamnophis, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Robin Follette, 06/12/2011
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[Market-farming] Buckwheat,
Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, grizzdover, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, MAsteveINE, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, MAsteveINE, 06/13/2011
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[Market-farming] Buckwheat,
Richard Stewart, 06/12/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Buckwheat, Robin Follette, 06/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Robin Follette, 06/12/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Thamnophis, 06/11/2011
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[Market-farming] Summer lettuces (was What will you be planting this month?),
Richard Robinson, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces (was What will you be planting this month?), Wiediger, Alison, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces (was What will you be planting this month?), Roots Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Road's End Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Richard Stewart, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Bill Shoemaker, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Road's End Farm, 06/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Summer lettuces, Richard Robinson, 06/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
Richard Stewart, 06/11/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] What will you be planting this month?,
grizzdover, 06/11/2011
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