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 […]
The rock under your property influences soil fertility, slope stability, water availability, and even which native plants grow there. Our Beavercreek farm can be seen on the Geologic Map of the Oregon City 7.5′ Quadrangle, Clackamas County, Oregon (a higher resolution map is available here), at the intersection of South Beavercreek […]
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