Happy 4th of July!
Several people have asked for a tour of my greenhouse, so here is a more detailed walk through during my Friday morning harvest. This video is posted on YouTube here:
It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Dillsburg, PA! It’s 34° outside and about 48° in the greenhouse at 8:37 am. Today we have three rafts of lettuce growing in the DWC – “Monte Carlo” and “Chalupa” romaine from Johnny’s Seeds. The wicking bed has a square of beats. Two squares of kale and some…
For the last several months we have been harvesting lettuce on Fridays and taking it out to Tree of Life Ministries in Purcellville , VA. Today I made a brief YouTube video of the Harvest. Today we harvested about 7 pounds of Romaine and Butterhead lettuce. Let me know what else you’d like to see…
In my last video on harvesting lettuce, I did not show the actual harvesting! So here’s a quick update video on how we do that.
Tree Of Life Ministries Food Pantry is ready to grow 72 plants per week, year round in this new Aquaponics Greenhouse designed and built by Grace Aquaponics.
The Mexico City team has the Wicking Bed ready to plant seeds of hope and fresh food in the new community Aquaponics House! Thanks to Tracey, Luis, Jerry, and John. This is the first phase of the system build. (The second phase will be the Aquaponics grow bed and fish tanks on the roof!) The…
Normally, we harvest the whole plant when it reaches maturity, but I’ve been experimenting with cutting Kale leaves off the plant rather than removing the entire plant. We had a baby Kale salad at a restaurant and it got me to thinking about harvesting Kale while the leaves were small. The young leaves are tender…
