I pulled one massive head of bok choi, 3 bulbs of fennel, 2 beets w/ greens, and some broccoli. Tasty stuff!

We cancled the market today. Got to the greenhouse today and looks a little short on product today. The romaine needs some time and there is a ton a work to do here at the farm. We have to get more tomatoes transplanted and some drip irrigation installed so we can continue to supply the markets with more of a selection.

Thanks to all who have supported us at the markets. Hope to see you soon!

Grow Your Own! It Tastes Better!

Just wanted to say thanks to Frank from the Cocoa Beach market. He brought us some wonderful local brussel sprouts from his garden on the beach. I made them how he suggested and they were awesome. Next time you run across some fresh b-sprouts use this recipe. Take 1/2 onion diced and some diced pancetta. Sauté that med heat until bacon is rendered and onions a lovely golden brown. Toss in the sliced brussel sprouts and some butter cook for 5min and serve hot. Simple and delicious.

Grow Your Own! It Tastes Better!

Greetings! I will be at the corner of 192 and US1 for the Melbourne farmers market. Saturday morning 4/10/10. Come support your local farm and community! We will be there from 10-3pm.

Just to let everyone know we sell our lettuce to anyone who wants it! If you want to have some delivered email us or give us a call. We are working on some programs to make it easier for people to have acess to local produce. So if you think you can move some of this fantastic local green we want to talk to you. We are currently looking for local outlets for our products.

Grow Your Own! It tastes better!

Good day fellow farmers! Today I put some Roma tomatoes into the raised bed garden. These were started in coco fibre and transplanted into a soil mix. To the existing soil there I added:

1 (714303) bag Ocean Forrest Potting Soil
2 (720425)scoops earthworm castings
1 handfull Azomite
1/2 bag (720695) Ancient Forest 100% pure forest humus

I’ll keep you posted when I give them some supplements, for now just plain water to start.

Grow Your Own! It Tastes Better!

Here it is! Finally got our design finished for our 24 plant site system. It retails for 399.00. Our systems come with everthing you need to grow a crop and then some! We also have started the “Brown Thumb Guarantee.” If you buy from us we will supply you with plant seedlings, so if you kill them or grow to harvest we will behappy resupply you when you need it. Give us a call if you are interested in growing some food for yourself. Peace!

Greetings everone! Just checking in from the Wickham park farmers market. It has slowed down so I’m using my iPhone to write this blog. If your reading this I got it to work. Getting the pic to show is another issue.

We were out at the Avenues last night with great success. Come join us every Tuesday 3p till 8p in the courtyard by the Pizza Gallery. Hope to see you there!

NFT is the style of system that we use in the greenhouse for all the lettuce’s. NFT stands for Nutrient Film Technique and describes the feeding system for the plants. We fill the reservoir with rain water or RO (reverse osmosis) water which is the purest water with a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) of around 0 ppm (parts per million). It is important not to have any elements in the water before adding your nutrients as it will be unclear to what is already in the water. (For example: tap water is full of chlorine, fluoride, and numerous pharmaceutical drugs as well as toxic waste, all which are poisonous to our plants, as well as us!)

Once we have filled our reservoirs with water, we then add the nutrients. For the lettuces and herbs, we use a Grow formula which is high in Nitrogen which plants require during their vegetative (or growth) state. Since lettuces and herbs do not need to flower for consumption, we only need to use this one formula, we just increase the strength as the crop grows bigger. We did purchase a crop specific nutrient from the manufacturer of the system, American Hydroponics, but have not begun to use it yet. We’ll update you when we do.

Back to NFT, now we have our water and nutrients mixed and the system is running. Nutrient Film Technique sort of speaks for itself. The water/nutrient solution is pumped to the “top” of the system and then uses gravity to flow down the gutter. This creates a “film” at the root zone soaking the media (we use rockwool, as this is the most efficient media for the NFT system). The water then flows into a gutter at the “bottom” of the gutters and drains back to the reservoir, creating a recirculating system.