The Beavercreek Demonstration Farm is a 15-acre property with a century-old barn and farmhouse, various outbuildings, a wood lot, two ponds, and several grass fields. For the past several decades the farm has been used to raise llamas and alpacas. Water rights for irrigation and fish rearing using the two […]
Our garden soil texture is a loam made up of 34% sand, 42% silt, and 24% clay. The soil pH is 5.7, much less acidic than the soil in the fields which had pH values ranging from 4.9 to 5.1. Nevertheless, we added 25 pounds of pelletized lime this fall […]
We have an aerator as part of the Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District’s Equipment Rental Program. Recently, we used the aerator to aerate two of the fields at the Beavercreek Demonstration Farm. Our aerator is made by Mill Creek Manufacturing. The five-foot-wide aerator attachs to the three-point hitch […]
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