April has been a busy month at Green Guys on The Drive and the work accomplished would not have been possible without help from our CSA members and volunteers during almost every weekend in April. The soil garden is about 90% planted with beets, carrots, kohlrabi, onions, lettuce, pac choi, sui choi, potatoes, fennel, black chickpeas, peas, radishes. We also love Hives for Humanity's bees that are on site and have planted more than a few areas with flowers that bees love including a few rows of soon to be nice and tall sun flowers.
The greenhouse is fully operational and has 24 plants (primarily kale) that will be ready to be moved from the second stage of the nursery into the vertical hydroponic units early next week and ready for their first harvest two weeks after the move. The next crop of 96 seedlings (lettuce, arugula, sui choi, and pac choi) are close behind and growing fast under the grow lights in the first stage of the nursery. Also in the green house are our tomato starts which will hopefully be transplanted into the soil garden towards the end of May.
With this fine weather we have been having and the success of the seedlings in the greenhouse we are currently expecting our first harvest to be Tuesday May 24th at 6 PM.
If anyone would like a tour of the farm or would like to lend a hand we and a group of volunteers and members are generally onsite Sunday afternoons from 1:30 to when the work gets done. Usually 3 to 4 pm. Please email us at [email protected] if you'd like to come so we know to expect you. Have a look below for some photos of the farm in April and make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date!
The greenhouse is fully operational and has 24 plants (primarily kale) that will be ready to be moved from the second stage of the nursery into the vertical hydroponic units early next week and ready for their first harvest two weeks after the move. The next crop of 96 seedlings (lettuce, arugula, sui choi, and pac choi) are close behind and growing fast under the grow lights in the first stage of the nursery. Also in the green house are our tomato starts which will hopefully be transplanted into the soil garden towards the end of May.
With this fine weather we have been having and the success of the seedlings in the greenhouse we are currently expecting our first harvest to be Tuesday May 24th at 6 PM.
If anyone would like a tour of the farm or would like to lend a hand we and a group of volunteers and members are generally onsite Sunday afternoons from 1:30 to when the work gets done. Usually 3 to 4 pm. Please email us at [email protected] if you'd like to come so we know to expect you. Have a look below for some photos of the farm in April and make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date!