Beaver Food Forest
@beaverfoodforest.bsky.social
A peat-free, coir-free native plant nursery specializing in plants needed by beavers for food and construction materials
Excited for an opportunity to try a different method of growing food among gophers! Since the gophers ate 99% of our saffron, almost every head of elephant garlic, our carrots, parsnips, and some of the sweet potatoes, it’s time to make a more concerted effort! 🌿 #gophers #repellent #farmlife
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Excited for an opportunity to try a different method of growing food among gophers! Since the gophers ate 99% of our saffron, almost every head of elephant garlic, our carrots, parsnips, and some of the sweet potatoes, it’s time to make a more concerted effort! 🌿 #gophers #repellent #farmlife
Never a dull moment in the native plant nursery. Now we are a pollinator nursery too!! 🌿🌰 #larvae #pollinators
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Never a dull moment in the native plant nursery. Now we are a pollinator nursery too!! 🌿🌰 #larvae #pollinators
Just reminding myself and everyone who struggles with the end of a growing season… with a nod to the other cycles of our lives 🌿🌰 #cycles #nitrogencycle #carboncycle #lifeanddeath
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just reminding myself and everyone who struggles with the end of a growing season… with a nod to the other cycles of our lives 🌿🌰 #cycles #nitrogencycle #carboncycle #lifeanddeath
Coconut coir has been the go-to for erosion prevention and control for years, but when you look at the water quality and human health costs, you may wish for an alternative. We developed a coir-free, peat-free option this summer! 🌿🌰 #coirfree #peatfree #erosioncontrol #biolog
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Coconut coir has been the go-to for erosion prevention and control for years, but when you look at the water quality and human health costs, you may wish for an alternative. We developed a coir-free, peat-free option this summer! 🌿🌰 #coirfree #peatfree #erosioncontrol #biolog
Sometimes you just have to make what you need in the moment. It’s worth having the right tools on hand and don’t be afraid to try fabricating something out of hardware cloth and tie wire! You’d be amazed how many different purposes I’ve found for this style of basket… #necessity #invention
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Sometimes you just have to make what you need in the moment. It’s worth having the right tools on hand and don’t be afraid to try fabricating something out of hardware cloth and tie wire! You’d be amazed how many different purposes I’ve found for this style of basket… #necessity #invention
Step-by-step: How to make a peat-free potting mix recipe that works well for large pots, to grow large plants. Let’s keep peat in place in the wetlands where it forms! 🌿 🌰 #peatfree #coirfree #pottingmix
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Peat-free potting mix tutorial
YouTube video by Beaver Food Forest
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November 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Step-by-step: How to make a peat-free potting mix recipe that works well for large pots, to grow large plants. Let’s keep peat in place in the wetlands where it forms! 🌿 🌰 #peatfree #coirfree #pottingmix
youtu.be/Zo89Ps6LAP8?...
youtu.be/Zo89Ps6LAP8?...
There are so many good reasons to leave peat in the wetlands where it forms, and so many great alternatives for growing plants without peat. Let’s protect our peat wetlands while we still can. @peatfree.bsky.social 🌿 🌰#protect #peatland #peatfree
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There are so many good reasons to leave peat in the wetlands where it forms, and so many great alternatives for growing plants without peat. Let’s protect our peat wetlands while we still can. @peatfree.bsky.social 🌿 🌰#protect #peatland #peatfree
Next step in the cistern rehabilitation project is to run water from the frost free spigot in the high tunnel all the way to our outdoor workstation. Will there be enough pressure? 🌿 #cistern #irrigation #farmlife
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Next step in the cistern rehabilitation project is to run water from the frost free spigot in the high tunnel all the way to our outdoor workstation. Will there be enough pressure? 🌿 #cistern #irrigation #farmlife
The moment of truth — is there going to be sufficient flow in the high tunnels from the cistern that we just finished rehabilitating?? 🌿#cistern #irrigation #hightunnel
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The moment of truth — is there going to be sufficient flow in the high tunnels from the cistern that we just finished rehabilitating?? 🌿#cistern #irrigation #hightunnel
One can dream and one can work and one can hope… but can one have asparagus to eat and to sell in future? Time will tell! 🌿 #asparagus #farmlife
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One can dream and one can work and one can hope… but can one have asparagus to eat and to sell in future? Time will tell! 🌿 #asparagus #farmlife
Fireweed for pollinators, soil health, AND fall foliage (Chamaenerion angustifolium, formerly Epilobium). Wildlife browse too. It’s native to most of North America — if it’s native where you live, I strongly recommend it! 🌿 #nativeplants #fireweed #fallfoliage
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fireweed for pollinators, soil health, AND fall foliage (Chamaenerion angustifolium, formerly Epilobium). Wildlife browse too. It’s native to most of North America — if it’s native where you live, I strongly recommend it! 🌿 #nativeplants #fireweed #fallfoliage
It’s happening! And as it turns out, everything’s a miracle… #thanksgiving #cucumber 🌿
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It’s happening! And as it turns out, everything’s a miracle… #thanksgiving #cucumber 🌿
Friction loss and surface tension play a much greater role than you might think in moving water from point A to point B! This stuff may not be intuitive, so do the math to get your tubing diameter right! You also need to factor in the flow rate and the kind of tubing material #irrigation #friction 🌿
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Friction loss and surface tension play a much greater role than you might think in moving water from point A to point B! This stuff may not be intuitive, so do the math to get your tubing diameter right! You also need to factor in the flow rate and the kind of tubing material #irrigation #friction 🌿
A milestone day with all of the tubing and valves installed to operate the newly refurbished cistern! Let’s go! 7000 gallons of the liquid of life #farmlife #cistern #irrigation 🌿
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A milestone day with all of the tubing and valves installed to operate the newly refurbished cistern! Let’s go! 7000 gallons of the liquid of life #farmlife #cistern #irrigation 🌿
Sometimes you just need to stop and soak up how beautiful this crazy, cruel world can be #naturalbeauty #rabbitbrush #nativeplants 🌿
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Sometimes you just need to stop and soak up how beautiful this crazy, cruel world can be #naturalbeauty #rabbitbrush #nativeplants 🌿
Red osier dogwood: a native plant for all seasons. Someone was asking for an update on my red osier dogwood propagation from cuttings video — here is one that I decided to plant in the ground. #dogwood #propagation #cuttings
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Red osier dogwood: a native plant for all seasons. Someone was asking for an update on my red osier dogwood propagation from cuttings video — here is one that I decided to plant in the ground. #dogwood #propagation #cuttings
Irrigating a farm can be a giant set of puzzles, and one key piece is about to fall into place here. This cistern will solve our winter watering conundrum, will allow us to water more efficiently, and on top of that, will serve as an emergency water supply. 🌿🌰 #cistern #wintergrowing #agwest
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Irrigating a farm can be a giant set of puzzles, and one key piece is about to fall into place here. This cistern will solve our winter watering conundrum, will allow us to water more efficiently, and on top of that, will serve as an emergency water supply. 🌿🌰 #cistern #wintergrowing #agwest
Many streams across the West of North America are not functioning well because they don’t have enough structure for key processes like water storage to occur. #streamrestoration #ltpbr #streams 🌿🌰
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Many streams across the West of North America are not functioning well because they don’t have enough structure for key processes like water storage to occur. #streamrestoration #ltpbr #streams 🌿🌰
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Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings
‘We’ve worked out that no matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else’, says academic
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands
In delivering a low-tech process-based restoration training in British Columbia this week, it’s been a welcome opportunity to revisit the principles that this work is founded on. #ltpbr #riverscape #restoration
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 AM
In delivering a low-tech process-based restoration training in British Columbia this week, it’s been a welcome opportunity to revisit the principles that this work is founded on. #ltpbr #riverscape #restoration
The creek formed the most enticing patterns when the weather dipped this week, and I can’t say that I’ve ever seen patterns just like this before! Have you ever seen
ice form in these
shapes? What do you think
causes it? #frozenwater 🌿
ice form in these
shapes? What do you think
causes it? #frozenwater 🌿
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The creek formed the most enticing patterns when the weather dipped this week, and I can’t say that I’ve ever seen patterns just like this before! Have you ever seen
ice form in these
shapes? What do you think
causes it? #frozenwater 🌿
ice form in these
shapes? What do you think
causes it? #frozenwater 🌿
I love asparagus to eat in the spring and to see in the fall! #autumn #asparagus 🌿
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I love asparagus to eat in the spring and to see in the fall! #autumn #asparagus 🌿
My goal is usually to have fall greens and cilantro mature by the end of October, and then they can coast into winter, staying alive but not exactly growing, ready to be picked whenever… This year I didn’t get the lettuce seeded but I did get the cilantro in!#fallgardening 🌿
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My goal is usually to have fall greens and cilantro mature by the end of October, and then they can coast into winter, staying alive but not exactly growing, ready to be picked whenever… This year I didn’t get the lettuce seeded but I did get the cilantro in!#fallgardening 🌿
The greenhouse I’ve always wanted was already on this farm when we got here. Big gratitude for all the effort that went into constructing it — and for the common sense to build one with an insulated, reflective north wall and insulated corners and lower walls. 🌿#greenhouse #design
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The greenhouse I’ve always wanted was already on this farm when we got here. Big gratitude for all the effort that went into constructing it — and for the common sense to build one with an insulated, reflective north wall and insulated corners and lower walls. 🌿#greenhouse #design