Our Kickstarter campaign was a success! We got off to a slow start, but picked up some momentum with just a few hours to go. We reached our goal of $10,000 which will allow us to purchase all of the seeds and gardening materials we will need for this year, which includes building our caterpillar tunnels. We will also be able to make a walk-in cooler to keep all of your veggies crisp and fresh until delivery or market day. We had faith that our campaign would succeed and we placed our order early for more chicks. They are set to arrive next Friday. I can't wait to see all of the fuzzy little chicks running around the greenhouse nibbling at fresh greens while waiting for them to feather out!
Brad and I have been on pins and needles the past few days and very emotional at times. Okay, so maybe that's just me! Pregnancy hormones are unbelievable! We slept peacefully Saturday night knowing that our dream of farming with our children and doing something that we love can continue for the upcoming season and hopefully many more to come. Thank you to all of you who supported us and helped to spread the word about our campaign and our mission to provide healthy food for our community!
Brad and I have been on pins and needles the past few days and very emotional at times. Okay, so maybe that's just me! Pregnancy hormones are unbelievable! We slept peacefully Saturday night knowing that our dream of farming with our children and doing something that we love can continue for the upcoming season and hopefully many more to come. Thank you to all of you who supported us and helped to spread the word about our campaign and our mission to provide healthy food for our community!
To keep our minds off of the campaign we continued to keep busy with work on the farm. Brad has been working with the children and our intern, Stacey, on our small greenhouse. We built our own small 12x16 greenhouse over five years ago and have grown greens, peas, turnips, carrots, and spinach for ourselves over the years. They prepared the growing bed areas and I planted salad mix today. If everything goes according to plan it will be ready to start harvesting in early March and continue to produce for a couple more months before we put in another crop. Brad has also been working on the site where will will be putting the seedling greenhouse. The tomatoes that we started on January 18th are thriving and it won't be much longer before they can be moved out to the seedling greenhouse until they are ready to make their permanent home in the large greenhouse at the end of March.
10 days post germination
21 days post germination
This past week we started four varieties of cabbage, three varieties of broccoli, chard, and numerous pepper varieties. In just two days a majority of the cabbage and broccoli have already sprouted! As we speak Brad is busy building more shelving in our dining room for us to move the trays from the germination shelf to the growing shelves. We currently have our tray filling station set up in our dining room also. It's a bit messy, but at least it's a fun kind of messy. The children have enjoyed being able to help fill the seed trays with our seed starting mix and not have to worry about mommy freaking out cause of the dirt on the floor. It's the little things that make them happy and I'm happy to see them enjoying the process of growing food from the start all the way to harvest!
Isaac, Hannah, and Lindsey filling seed trays with our seed starting mix.
Broccoli just three days germination on over half the tray!
Three day germination on cabbage
Seed trays waiting to be filled!
Our very crowded dining room. This is not the final set up, just prep work!
Our Sunday picnic!
God's beautiful sunset overlooking the farm
It's time for me to go plant some more pepper seeds. This week we still have more peppers, tomatoes, leeks, and many more seeds to get started! We are busy, but we are loving it!
Until next time,
Tiff
Until next time,
Tiff
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