A) 18 red zebra tomato seed saver
B) 18 same
C) 18 starbor kale Johnny's
D) 18 scarlet kale seed savers
E) 18 pingtung long eggplant seed savers
F) 18 same
A new handsome WWOOFer from Ewa Beach donated some truck space and muscle to be a part of Libre Farm's first seedlings for our new spot.
A) 18 red zebra tomato seed saver B) 18 same C) 18 starbor kale Johnny's D) 18 scarlet kale seed savers E) 18 pingtung long eggplant seed savers F) 18 same
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Be joyful though you have considered all the facts" -Wendell Berry Have we mastered farming? Not quite yet. Are we going for it anyways? Oh yeah. New farm plot take 3!! A new 1/8 acre. Still in Waimanalo, still incubated by GoFarm, but have to make our own investments in infrastructure, seeds, and other supplies. What we previously had handed to us, we now have to drive around the island and seek out ourselves. I had no idea how daunting an irrigation warehouse could be. Ted is our guru and Dave's previous life building pools has paid off. Tilling hurts my feelings... but driving a tractor is pretty damn fun. Dave and Garret, our 13 year old WWOOFer from New Jersey, planted sunhemp and buckwheat for our cover crop and I tilled it in. 6 lbs sunhemp, mixed with .57 oz inoculate (1 bag/50 lbs) and 6 lbs buckwheat thrown by hand throughout the plot. Rob brought up inoculating with homemade compost tea instead of buying it. Dave says that would require really accurate compost tea, don't think we're there yet. Rob mentioned buying a microscope for this endeavor, to count the bacteria? I look forward to learning more from him. Set up the sprinklers and hoses. Garret immediately abandoned all duties and threw on his surf shorts. It's great that all the incubator plots are part of a larger 1.8 acre parcel and we all are immediate neighbors. Ikaika and Leonard's cover is inspiring us to get on it already. We can tell it's a little patchy from uneven water distribution but I will be stoked if we can replicate their germination! My new label ideas 7/17 UPDATE
This sparse sprouting makes me nervous, not sure if more will continue to germinate from 7/12. Dave and Garret threw out 3 more lbs of each 7/18. Pretty envious when I see the lush plots of Ikaika and Leonard, but they told me not to worry. We will see. |
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