GoFarm

Toys for farm girls: Jacky enjoyed trying out the new scale in the kitchen yesterday. This simple piece of equipment makes life much easier as our orders are slowly growing bigger.
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Jacky and Maggie harvested and packaged the veggies yesterday without me since I was staring into a friend’s microscope - but that's a story for another time.

This is how collaboration looks like: our own veggies (green crates), complemented by veggies from (red crates). We are very happy to be able to offer a wider variety of fresh, organic vegetables. And so are our customers!
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A snapshot of the produce that we delivered last week.

More poo, bring it on, I can’t get enough of it!
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We still need a lot of compost to make new veggie beds. We cover the soil with a thick layer to kickstart the process of enriching the soil; after that, we top it up when needed. And yes, we plant the seedlings directly in the compost.
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As we are not able to make enough compost for new beds from the available materials in our own plot, we have to bring it in from elsewhere. We order truckloads full of horse poo, mixed with straw, that we transform into beautiful, nice smelling compost within 2-3 months.
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We apply a no-till method: after taking the woody and grassy bits and pieces out of the soil, we just put the matured horse manure on top and let the soil life do the rest of the work. It is amazing how much a layer of 15 cm compost diminishes within 6 months!

Our ferocious (don’t mess with her, 2nd photo) broody chicken Luca finally has some fertile eggs to sit on.
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She refused to leave the chicken coop for weeks, hardly feeding herself, protecting eggs from the other chickens that are probably not fertile anyway, despite our very active cockerel 😉. We hope that this problem is solved once she’ll have her own babies.
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We got 6 Bantam eggs (thanks Suzanne 😘), from 6 different mamas probably, so we will have a variety of chicks soon hopefully.
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Expected date of delivery: 19th of November.

Man at work.
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Putting the first bits and pieces together for our drip irrigation system. A next step in the direction of saving precious resources, in this case water and time.
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Water will be directly guided into the soil which will hopefully also help decrease some fungal diseases.
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