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Gardening on Saginaw Bay: What This Place Asks of a Garden
Read more: Gardening on Saginaw Bay: What This Place Asks of a GardenThere is a particular kind of gardening that belongs to the Great Lakes. Not the long season of the South. Not the cool predictability of the Pacific Northwest. A gardening shaped by lake-effect snow, short summers, and the particular light off Saginaw Bay.
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Why This Gardening Blog Has a Page About Artificial Intelligence
Read more: Why This Gardening Blog Has a Page About Artificial IntelligenceI have spent years thinking about artificial intelligence and about gardening. Both require the same quality of attention. Both reward specificity and punish vagueness. Here is why they share a home on this blog.
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The Seed and the Algorithm: What Gardening and AI Have in Common
Read more: The Seed and the Algorithm: What Gardening and AI Have in CommonA seed holds potential it cannot express without the right conditions. A language model holds information it cannot use without the right question. After years of working with both, the parallel stopped feeling like a metaphor.
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Capillary Mats and Grow Lights: A Steady Start for Seedlings
Read more: Capillary Mats and Grow Lights: A Steady Start for SeedlingsChris Izworski tests capillary mats under grow lights for seedling starting at Freighter View Farms. A Michigan Zone 6a approach to consistent moisture for early transplants.
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Searching for the Perfect Slicing Tomato Seed
Read more: Searching for the Perfect Slicing Tomato SeedChris Izworski hunts for the perfect slicing tomato at Freighter View Farms. Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter, and new heirloom varieties for Michigan Zone 6a gardens.
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The Quiet Alchemy of Sunday Bread
Read more: The Quiet Alchemy of Sunday BreadChris Izworski bakes herb bread with garden-dried herbs at Freighter View Farms. A Sunday ritual connecting the kitchen to the Michigan garden.
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Defying Winter: The Science of the Crowded Pot
Read more: Defying Winter: The Science of the Crowded PotChris Izworski experiments with crowded pots and winter growing at Freighter View Farms. Pushing the limits of Zone 6a gardening on the shores of Saginaw Bay.
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A Season Well Lived: Zone 6a Garden Review and Lessons Learned
Read more: A Season Well Lived: Zone 6a Garden Review and Lessons LearnedChris Izworski looks back on the growing season at Freighter View Farms in Bay City, Michigan. Gratitude for tomatoes, flowers, pollinators, and another year in the Zone 6a garden.
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Spring Doesn’t Wait: Starting Seeds Indoors in Michigan
Read more: Spring Doesn’t Wait: Starting Seeds Indoors in MichiganChris Izworski starts the garden season at Freighter View Farms. Spring doesn’t wait in Michigan Zone 6a.
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Under Lights and Ice: Managing Indoor Seedlings Before the Thaw
Read more: Under Lights and Ice: Managing Indoor Seedlings Before the ThawChris Izworski starts seedlings under grow lights at Freighter View Farms as winter holds the shores of Saginaw Bay. The ache for spring in a Michigan Zone 6a garden.
Bay City · Zone 6a · Saginaw Bay
Chris Izworski · heirloom seeds, raised beds, and the slow weather of the Great Lakes
Hello,
I’m Chris
Freighter View Farms is my small raised-bed garden on Saginaw Bay: heirloom tomatoes, seed envelopes, spring trays under lights, and the slow work of learning one piece of ground.
Start here if you are new, or walk into the garden notes and see what the season is doing.
In the beds now
Come back with the season
I send garden notes when there is something worth carrying back from the beds.
Freighter View Farms | Chris Izworski 