We continue to press forth in our westward expansion. This is our first year growing on our permanent farm, and are having normal first year difficulties. Our lovely Virginia clay that people have been complaining about since at least our founding fathers, is slowly turning into the more organic mix we prefer. It will, however, take more then a season or two for it to produce on the levels we were expecting, but it is turning around slowly. We have been adding composted saw dust slowly in with each bed and look forward to adding more as well as a short term cover crop once the greens are out and before the winter squash goes in.
The irrigation situation is moving at a similar pace. Our Greenhouse is fully automated now and is moving forward near schedule. We are currently redesigning the irrigation plans for the majority of the exposed fields. Since our operation is currently off grid we are working with gravity fed water pressure and that has presented some difficulties. Plans are in the works for small scale water towers and we look forward to higher gpm with in the week.
Other then a minor raccoon invasion, things are moving along well, and we are looking forward to a more bountiful second third of the growing season.
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