Seasons Eatings Farm's Gardens

For 2007: Pumpkins only while we work on the house and revise the business plan.
This year is a little different than past years. We're doing a lot of work on the house this year. That will keep us busy and the place a mess so the only produce we'll offer for sale to the public We practice sustainable farming methods. Most of the inputs we use are produced here on the farm. We compost old hay, livestock bedding and manure, and plants from the garden. Compost, seaweed and comfrey are used in teas.

When insect pests get out of hand we turn to natural methods of control. We can turn the ducks loose into the mature garden to eat slugs after a rain. The chickens will chase down grasshoppers, scratch up grubs and disturb weeds from dawn til dusk if we leave them out. When we need pesticides we use natural products.

We believe healthy soil grows healthy vegetables. A healthy plant can tolerate being nibbled on by a pest. When something morethan the birds are necessary we turn to organic treatments.

This is the first of five steel framed 22 x 48 greenhouses going up. This replaces two hoop houses. We currently have two greenhouses (one is 12 x 24 and used for seedlings and winter vegetables) and one 15 x 45 hoop house in extended season production.

Hoop houses are also used to house poultry. Meat chickens are in one and a turkey with six poults in another right now.

Visit the greenhouse page to follow along as we incorporate four season growing to our business.

The new hoop house over part of the smallest garden. This was taken in mid May. There are peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, basil and lettuce planted in here. The hoop is 14' x 45'.

UPDATE 2006: We now have three hoops.
UPDATE 2007: Two hoops will be replaced with one 20 x 48 steel framed high tunnel later this summer.

July 15