We made a decision before we started farming to never seek organic certification. Now some may read that and read nothing more, however we would encourage you to read the length of this post, do your own research, talk to the farmer that grows your food and visit their farm. Transparency is important to make […]
We went through two used washers before figuring out that there is a specific type of washer we needed to make a DIY Greens Spinner. We got the correct washer on the third try and it has been working great. This project involves modifying a top-load washer to spin with a harvest basket full of […]
Why we choose compostable bags and what we learned in the process. So why worry about what bags are made out of? Well if you live in California they have already been banned. 99 percent of all plastics are made from fossil fuels, all requiring massive amounts of energy to produce, in addition to the […]
Its hard to believe that this update is now more than four months after we started this project, thinking it would take us two months to complete. There are lots of reasons, but the biggest being rain. I’m not sure what exactly our totals are here but we’ve been getting rain what seems like non-stop […]
In our last post, we just purchased the hoops for our high tunnel and got them home. After getting the main hoops home we started to get a list of all the other pieces we needed to complete the project. Before we started purchasing the other pieces needed we had to address grading the area […]