Normally the Sunday morning after market is spent with a relaxed morning eating a hearty breakfast consisting of eggs and potatoes, spending an hour on the internet reading the news since we don’t have TV reception, reading books and perhaps doing a load of laundry. No time for chilling out this past Sunday because another […]
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The trenches finally drained enough for us to finish running the power, irrigation water lines and drainage pipes. That took a little longer than we expected but we are ready to fill in the trenches so perhaps we can then access our compost pile. We didn’t realize how frequently we use the compost pile and […]
So we didn’t quite complete running our irrigation pipe and our electricity before the rain came last week and we are thankful of that! We weren’t planning on tying our drain pipes running along each of our greenhouses into a main pipe because we didn’t see much water coming from the pipes along our greenhouses […]
This past week Alvin had Randy use his trac-hoe to trench for supplying each of our greenhouses with irrigation water, electricity and hot water lines so we can heat them using a wood boiler. Randy was amazing at running the trac-hoe and was able to trench right up to our greenhouse frames without touching […]
This past week we set the posts for the wood shed, which means plumbing and concreting them, meanwhile measuring to be sure they are spaced according to our wood shed plans so their alignment can be adjusted appropriately. NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND SPLATERED WITH FALL COLORS! Our valley is gorgeous and we are blessed to […]
Wood Boiler Pad (pad is 5′ x 5′) Wood Shed Layout (the shed will be 20′ x 28′) That is our motto these days. Since things aren’t growing we have switched gears to our most current farm project and that being: Installation of a wood boiler for heating our greenhouses. The wood boiler we purchased […]
GREAT NEWS… We were able to get most of our cover crops seeded Friday September 25th. We were hoping to have everything seeded on Thursday but rain came late Thursday afternoon postponing our seeding until Friday. We are thankful that we seeded even though our soils were a little wet because it seems that we […]
Saturday at Market Vanessa and Alex at Full Sun Farm had the most BEAUTIFUL arugula, radishes, kale and baby boc choi. The last couple years at this time we had kale and baby boc choi but the flea beetles and harlequin bugs have been so tenacious this season that our kale is stunted and our […]
I feel a bit lazy these past couple of days. Sunday I didn’t do much but harvest a little squash which aren’t so pretty because the squash bugs are munching on them. We are desperately trying to kill a few bugs so Carl sprayed our crops Sunday while I weeded a little bit of our […]
Terrorists and Thugs Flea Beetle Harlequin Bug Today we spent the afternoon wondering – do we till the broccoli and da cheong under or do we hoe it and try to save it? Our fall crops are looking pretty poor so we aren’t quite sure what to do. Collecting insurance is not an option since […]