Today is when I sit down at the computer to take our first thoughts on cropping and flesh them out in more detail. It's a long way from being done, but every step forward gets us closer! Also, if you want to grow garlic, you're running out of time to plant it out so buy some soon and plant it asap.
Crop Planning & Buying Garlic
Today is when I sit down at the computer to take our first thoughts on cropping and flesh them out in more detail. It's a long way from being done, but every step forward gets us closer! Also, if you want to grow garlic, you're running out of time to plant it out so buy some soon and plant it asap.
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Chilly Harvest
Chilly to start with but absolutely clear sky, sunshine, and eventually some warmth as well. We even saw a honey bee out today!
Pitching to Unltd at the Eden Project
Today we were invited to pitch our project to a panel of judges at The Eden Project, for the chance of £15,000 towards expanding our farm operations. Even if we aren't selected it was a lovely sunny day to visit Eden, and it was lovely to spend time with so many interesting food projects in Devon and Cornwall. Thanks to Tim for driving us down, and to all the other projects that wished us luck and commiserated on the bout of nerves prior to presenting!
Hardening Off Station
Spring cleaning again. At the farm. And rebuilding a rotten old pallet table. The Level 3's in sustainable horticulture strike again!
Gratitude for snacks
You know when you’re working outside on a drizzly day and it’s time to come in for a cup of tea? How good that cup of tea feels? (amazing!) well today we didn’t only have tea we also had sweet peanut butter and chickpea squares given to me last night by Neeta. Thank you Neeta! We played the ‘guess that taste’ game and still noone got it. 🙂
Time to sign up CSA members again
After a bit of rewording from last year, and changing around some of the options, the membership forms are ready to go in Monday's CSA boxes. I've even thrown in some pie charts to show where our money comes from and where it goes and a picture of the new machinery we're planning on using. A Sunday job jobbed. 🙂
Hooray for freebies!
Today I had some helpful support from Laurel (Food In Community) and Hannah (The Kitchen Table) to pickup some old outdoor tables that would've been skipped in a massive clearance of some old kit of Dartington Estates. Next big event we have, we'll have no excuse not to have tables out for you! Deep gratitude for both ladies for generously donating their time today. This is what community supporting their farm looks like. 🙂
Early Spring Cleaning
Our Level 3's this morning learned about how we prepare for the new growing season by cleaning up our propagation glasshouse.
Planning & Learning
Today was a day for catching up on emails at home, and getting organised for 2015. I grabbed an app off the internet and used it to make an automatic gantt chart of all the things to do in the next few months including building stuff, ordering stuff, planning crops and preparing our beds for crops. I also had a few texts from Mel who's up at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, which sounds amazing yet again – I'm definitely going to find a budget in my life to go up next year!