
https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar/zipcode/95501
The Farmers Almanac has been used as a reference for gardening by farmers and garden enthusiasts for decades. It was a publication I saw often at homes of those I knew as a child, decades later a copy would sit upon my shelf as my spouse and I followed the moon charts for our small family farm.

Wise Moon Farm
It wasn’t until later when I was enrolled in sustainable agriculture classes at College of the Redwoods that I realized there could be some real validity to biodynamic farming and growing by the cycles of the moon. If you have never visited the College of the Redwoods farm out in Shively, it is worth the drive. The farm out at Shively produces crops for Community Supported Agriculture and an annual pumpkin patch, all without added irrigation, using the cycles of the moon to know when to go out in the field to help water wick up to the crops.

