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Levi Runs Away From Home

All the way to the greenhouse. Ellie and Levi’s chore is to gather the eggs and clean them every day for the last 1.5 years and they forget every day.
Sunday, it was about dark. Ellie was at church practicing for the Good Friday play and Levi was playing video games [...]

A day in the life of two 21st Century Agrarians

Monday morning, the first thing I did was spray the few transplants in the greenhouse with pyganic We get these small moths about this time every year that reek havoc on transplants, mostly brassicas.
I failed to mention this to Jenifer and she came behind me and watered the greenhouse washing off stuff I had just [...]

On the Farm

Farm Work
Tuesday, I spent all day potting up young transplants of eggplants and peppers into 4.5″ X 4. pots. Why do I mention this? We used to transplant the plants directly from the flats into the garden. They did ok. We have found though that if we take the time and spend the money on [...]

Heating the Greenhouse

Wednesday, Denise, Rich and Mike came to visit.
Denise is a CSA member and closet farmer. She secured a grant to via a program that was designed to help farmers move to more viable income streams.
Her grant involves using glycerin, a by-product of bio-fuel production as a fuel burned in a waste-oil burner to heat farm [...]

Teaching Through Life

Planting Onion Sets
Last Wednesday, as we were getting close to finishing garlic planting, I reminded Levi that he had a bunch of onion sets to plant.
David of Renfrow’s Hardware in Matthews gave his old stock of red and white onions, along with some shallots from last fall to Levi to plant and make some money. [...]

Greenhouse Work, Seeds

We ran out of seeding trays and and table space Tuesday in the greenhouse. Two of the folks with working shares in our CSA, CJ and Jonathan, showed up Tuesday and we were all sowing like mad.
We use a hard plastic flat with 72 cells made by Winstrip. We have about 80 of those and [...]

Greenhouse Work

Jenifer and I have been busy in the greenhouse sowing seeds. We have close to 5,000 potential plants coming on. I say potential because the majority of them are just tiny seeds in the dirt. Mostly lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli but also some kale and spicy greens, and even beets.
We don’t heat our greenhouse because [...]

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