Field preparation comes first
The strawberry plan starts with bed layout, weed pressure, irrigation planning, soil preparation, and learning how this ground behaves before pretending there is a crop to sell.
First Planned Production Field
Strawberries are the first planned production crop.
Strawberry field preparation at Shaggy Ink Farms, including irrigation planning, soil preparation, and the honest goal of working toward the 2027 season.
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.
The honest status
Strawberries are a 2027 season goal, not current commercial production. The work now is preparation, testing, and building a system that can support the crop later.
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
Growing Strawberries in Northern California
How to grow strawberries in Northern California and the Sacramento Valley — choosing June-bearing vs day-neutral types, planting bare-root crowns, managing Zone 9b heat, and getting sweet berries off a small bed.
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Growing Guide
Preserving Your Garden Harvest
A practical guide to freezing, drying, storing, fermenting, and safely canning garden produce without guessing on food safety.
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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
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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Garden
Family Garden
The Shaggy Ink Farms family garden is for household food, local growing notes, and honest documentation of what works and fails in Anderson, California.
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Planning a garden at home? The Garden Planner and local growing guides are the practical tools side of this work.