microbial life Archives • Runamuk Acres Conservation Farm

Shifting Focus

Samantha Burns October 31, 2019 October 31, 2019

After spending the last 10 years fixated on bees, I am finally shifting focus! From this day forward, Runamuk will no longer be all about bees and pollinator conservation! Gasp! Bee-Fever I became enthralled with bees quite unexpectedly. Though I’d been the proverbial tomboy as a child, I’d never been …

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Garden Cover-Cropping at Runamuk

Samantha Burns August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

Last week was all about cover-cropping the garden here at Runamuk. The chickens had completed their work and I had my new broadfork, along with some seed to put down; there’s something particularly intimate and romantic about working soil, so I was especially jacked up for the project. Aside from …