Author: tom@rainbowridgewest.com

Our 2nd Christmas here on the farm, we took a break from all the hard work and made these videos.  We hesitated to publish them because we didn’t want to make too many waves...

Our small citrus grove was buried so deep in Urochloa mutica that the trees were at severe risk.  We developed a rescue plan based on sweat, gas power, organic nutrients, and hope for the...

We measure our rainfall in “buckets” … a bucket is 15″.  January has brought us 2+ buckets, one of them in the last 2 days.  Today’s forecast 50% rain turned into sun, so we...

Organic agriculture is our preferred approach to building our farm, and we always attempt to use organic (read: hard labor) methods to reduce the impact of invasive weeds.  By “weed” we usually mean shrub...

We worked hard in 2013 helping Tom’s dad get back on his feet, finishing up professional work and getting our stuff together to move onto our farm.  We were terrible at communicating with our...

Welcome to Rainbow Ridge West, home of 2 guys and a cat.  Finally, we’re taking a break from hard labor and hoping to let our bodies heal.  We’ve moved to WordPress; the prior system...