Next Generation Organics

I’m the worst blogger there is. Summer gets too crazy and my fall has been spent putting up an NRCS funded hoophouse. Thank you american tax payer. Its a monster, for us anyway. I had to marry my two biggest ladders together to get to the peak of the roof to put the plastic on. Talk about sketchy. I made it to where it will roll into two different spots so you can have two different growing areas at different times of the year. Thanks to Jon Lawrey and Preston Riley for helping to get the  hoops up and the plastic on.

 We had a great year and are getting ready to fire up the greenhouse next month and start planting to do it all again. We are still ordering seed, and sourcing OG seed potatoes and so on. 

In February we are giving a ‘virtual tour’ of our farm at the Idaho’s Growers Own conference so that will be cool.

Uhh not much else to report. Maybe I will blog in another 5 months with more…

So close to having the new greenhouse addition ready. Benches are built, plastic is stretched, only the end wall plastic remains. We had a perfect 2 hours of calm yesterday to get the plastic on. Not 5 minutes after we were done the wind came up and it would have been impossible to do. The greenhouse gods were kind for sure. End wall will get done today and Robert is your Muvas Bruva. We had our 2 greenhouses packed to the brim last year and we are going even bigger this year so it had to be done. Can’t wait… We were contacted by a rep from Toyota today about buying some potted herbs for a Farm to Table event on the 23rd of April at the Capital City Public Market . It sounds pretty cool, they are pairing local chefs with local producers and giving away culinary herbs as part of the promotion. Sounds cool. Stay tuned for more info.

It was  80 degrees in the green house yesterday. Plants are popping and I’m ready for spring. Is it really only February?

Spring comes a little early around here. We are firing up the greenhouse, with all those wonderful herbs, onions, chives, spring greens, and early tomatoes. Its so nice to duck into a 70 degree greenhouse when its 30 outside. I have a hot water heating system made from a recycled water heater and some 1/2 in. tubing that circulates hot water at the plants root zone. It works awesome and keeps the soil of the plants nice and toasty. We are super excited to be into our 3rd year of production, and can’t wait for the Capital City Public Market to kick off in April. There are lots of plants to care for until then so stay tuned.

Check out these baby tomatoes, so cute. Those are Bull Blood Beets in the background for a killer micro greens mix.

Come on down to the mkt for the last of the tomatoes. We are sick of watering them and looking at them. I want to start harvesting already, so should you. This weather has set everything back so there is still time to plant but you better hurry. We got all sorts of other things gourmet herbs, 9 different types of Basil, summer and winter squash, a few peppers left mostly anaheim types, cukes, lettuce 6 pks and Kales too. More stuff than I can remember.. Fresh picked Kale and Lettuce blend too. All Certified Organic of course…So come on down and have a Saturday morning out at the market and then go home and plant a garden.  See you there. OH and get a stroopwafel cookie at the booth next door, oh god they are good. on 8th between Idaho and Main