bangin!

we have been working really hard…  a lot is happening.  will work to fill in pix and posts, but the truth is we may have forgotten half of what we have done. a few highlights.: 3 people planted their first seeds expert seed blocking continues to keep us on schedule path cutting to the train […]
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Awesomeness speaks for itself

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observations so far about our seedling/planting process

The eggplant we seeded in the miniblockers must not have been deep enough, because over half of them managed to pop their roots entirely out of the ground.  It was pretty horrifying to see their naked white roots just lying ON TOP of the soil like that.  I noticed right away and only 2 of […]
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Soil blocks, looking for rocks, buying a car… and more!

That’s just a preview – so much happened today that we’re going to break it up into several posts. Today Anna and I made more soil blocks. We’re really getting good at getting making them (right amount of water, enough dirt so they are consistent size, etc).  Ground cherries, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, spinach, and kale […]
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Makeshift Greenhouse

Lewis and I made a greenhouse of sorts this weekend in the yoga room.  Yes, it is a little early for us to start planting (considering we have no toasty place to move these seeds to once they sprout and that, even if it weren’t still way cold in the unprotected outdoors, we don’t have […]
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