Category Archives: Projects

So Friday it was a little sunny and FINALLY the snow melted by late afternoon. We have cranked up the greenhouse and seeded most of our onions with anticipation of Saturday and Sunday being sunny and unfrozen so that we could work on outside projects rather than greenhouse work. Normally our winters have a few […]

So once again we are probably taking on more than we should but we couldn’t resist! For quite some time we have had plans of reclaiming about an acre of farmland that is seeded in fescue. What we know, from our ten years of farming, is that fescue is not an easy grass to get rid […]

we were finally able to tackle a few outside tasks. We spent a few days this past week cutting and hanging rafters on the wood shed and are pleased to be done with that phase of the project. Most construction projects use trusses set on top of headers for the roof structure. About a decade […]

So it was 18 degrees midday this week and we decided to take a trip to the tropics. In just a little over 5 minutes we were in the tropics soaking up sunshine in 80 degree temperatures! That is what the greenhouse is to us in the winter and it definitely warms the soul. In […]

The temperatures dipped down to 15 degrees this week and highs during the day on Thursday and Friday while harvesting were 34 and 26 degrees. That meant harvesting and processing in cold, freezing weather!  Once our produce is harvested, it is taken to our processing and packing shed which is in the back of our equipment […]

The wood boiler weighs about 2,000 lbs without water and this particular model, is a Central Boiler eClassic 2300 and boy can it hold some wood!  We will have to photograph that in the next couple days!      The wood boiler being very heavy, the fellows brought a real fancy flat bed truck complete with a hydraulic […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]