This summer, we received a grant from LASA to help us make our dream a reality. We had been struggling through two seasons of shuffling everything around in our fridge in order to keep our produce from wilting and to extend its shelf life. We found that in order to have a profitable and sustainable business, we would need to invest in some serious infrastructure that could help us reduce waste. Below is a picture of our home fridge which was entirely full of vegetables nearl

I want to share one of the techniques that a lot of farmers use to save space in the greenhouse. When you are seeding trays by the dozen, you can quickly fill up your tables and run out of precious real estate. We call this technique "potting up" which refers to taking a young seedling and transplant it into a larger block of soil from a densely seeded tray. This method not only saves space, but it allows you to choose the healthiest , strongest looking sprouts. Healthy trans