Over the winter months we have been busy working on a few projects which has kept us from sharing on this blog.
Project One:
Begin planning for our first CSA growing season
Project Two:
Buy seeds for the whole year and spend lots of money
Project Three:
Build a hoop house for starting our seeds which includes: Measuring out the footprint, putting in rebar, putting up the PVC hoops, screwing in the spine of the house, duct taping the PVC to prevent it from degrading the plastic, building the door frames, building a door, putting up a very large 45 foot long piece of greenhouse plastic over the PVC hoops, cutting out the doorway and window and then securing the plastic to the PVC and wood, making air vent flaps at the door and window.
Project Four:
Build seed sowing boxes
Project Five:
Build benches that will double as potting benches and for keeping seed sowing boxes above ground
Project Six:
Finalize the design for our farm logo
Project Seven:
Continue working on our brochure for potential CSA members
Project Eight:
Finalize our offer letter to our first season potential CSA members
Project Nine:
Create a website specifically for our farm and CSA
(are you getting tired yet?)
Project Ten:
Make a soil mix specifically for germinating seeds
Project Eleven:
Sow the first seeds including the following vegetables, fruits and herbs: peppers, tomatoes, onions, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, kale, echinacea, bergamot, roselle, borage, lettuce, sage, eggplant, celery
Project Twelve:
still need to buy our website domain, launch the website, get ourselves official farm related website email addresses, set up a new Instagram account for farm related photos
Project Thirteen:
I just set up a new blog called Feasting with Furlong Forest Farm so I can post recipes, veggie and fruit storage and consuming tips, food related bits and whatever else is related to eating.
You can find it at feastingwithfurlongforestfarm.blogspot.com and it will be linked to this original blog as well.
all this and we still found time to work our "other jobs" and complete our taxes. Stay tuned for a post about our new website!
(and I figure you can wait to see some of our best recent photos of the projects we have been working on once our website and Instagram account is launched!)
