Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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10/ They were game. OSU's Amy Garrett provided us with potato seed. Dr. Alex Stone gifted us leftover winter squash seed from her OSU dry farm trial. By July 7, the potatoes, about two months in the ground, and the winter squash, transplanted about a month prior, looked great.

Potato seed from Oregon State University
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Potato seed from Oregon State University

Here's Jim Berry, the man responsible for carving this piece of arable land out of a vast blackberry thicket, and who prepared all the beds for transplanting for our dry farming project.
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Here's Jim Berry, the man responsible for carving this piece of arable land out of a vast blackberry thicket, and who prepared all the beds for transplanting for our dry farming project.

Bed planting map in hand for various potato varieties: Elba, Yukon Gold, Yellow Finn, Nicola, Red Pontiac.
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Bed planting map in hand for various potato varieties: Elba, Yukon Gold, Yellow Finn, Nicola, Red Pontiac.