Systems before scale
A market garden will only make sense after the farm understands water, weeds, soil, labor, crop timing, and basic infrastructure better than it does today.
Future Project
The market garden is still a future project in planning.
Market garden planning at Shaggy Ink Farms, with strawberries as the first planned production crop and no fake claims about current production.
Shaggy Ink Farms
Garden work under Northern California oaks
The garden pages keep the 2027 season build honest: planning, testing, preparing, and learning before claiming a finished farm system.
Current Status
Useful, honest, and still taking shape.
These notes are here to show what is being built and what is still being learned. They are not product pages.
First production crop
Strawberries are the first planned production crop. Any broader market garden expansion comes later, after the farm has earned better systems through real seasons.
Grow It Yourself
Related Learn Guides
These links keep the Garden pages focused on what Shaggy Ink Farms is building while sending how-to guidance to the Learn section.
Growing Guide
Family Garden Planner Guide
How to turn family meals, garden space, water, and planting windows into a practical food-garden plan.
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Growing Guide
Crop Rotation Guide
Why rotating plant families between beds reduces disease, manages pests, and improves soil fertility over time. Practical rotation plans for small gardens.
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Field Notes
Related Journal Entries
Dated notes from the farm that connect this Garden page to the real build as it happens.
Plan Your Version
Related Planning Tools
Garden Paths
More garden work
Garden
What We're Growing
A plain overview of the garden, fruit, flower, orchard, herb, and soil-building work taking shape at Shaggy Ink Farms for the 2027 season.
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Garden
Strawberries
Strawberry field preparation at Shaggy Ink Farms, including irrigation planning, soil preparation, and the honest goal of working toward the 2027 season.
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Garden
Cut Flowers
The cut flower project at Shaggy Ink Farms is focused on sunflowers, trial varieties, pollinator value, local production lessons, and building honestly toward 2027 sales.
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Planning a garden at home? The Garden Planner and local growing guides are the practical tools side of this work.