March Haiti Trip

In March, Gregg Knight, Brandon Myers and I traveled to Petion-ville Haiti (a “suburb” of Port-Au-Prince) with the goal of installing a dutch bucket hydroponics system on the roof of an orphanage.  We had a great trip with much success.  We were able to install the system and 40 tomato plants are growing strong right…

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Farm update for October

Tonight we were bottle feeding our baby 4 week old calves and my son Pike was gathering eggs.  He came running to me excited about something. He was cradling an egg from a chicken that was nearly twice the size of a normal chicken egg!!!  It was so large in fact that it would not…

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Hydroponics nutrient “recipe”

Several people have asked for my nutrient mix recipe, well here it is.  It is not original by me, I learned it from mhpgardener on YouTube but it works amazing.  This mix is added to five gallons of water (preferable rain water or well water).  This is the strength for tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. It’s…

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I love “suckers”!!!!

Today I went to greenhouse to check on out hydroponics unit and found a pleasent surprise. My suckers that I cut off of our indeterminent tomatoes had successfully rooted.  Check out the size of these roots!  We cut this sucker on Friday Sept 27.  They are over 4 inches long. This is amazing!  I love…

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Dutch buckets are up and running

Today we received our nutrient solution for our hydroponics system. We planted tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, multiplying onions, and squash. The whole system is running great! Tomatoes Multiplying onions Swiss chard I also took a picture of one of our feeder pigs. She is growing fast and strong!

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Hydroponic strawberry towers and Dutch buckets

Today we have been constructing our vertical strawberry towers which will grow 65 plants per tower. They are made out of NEW 4 inch sewer pipe that is cut in 5 ft lengths.  We the mark and till all our holes offset from each other 2.5 inches horizontal and 2 inches vertically. This a picture…

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New greenhouse is finished

Thanks to the help of Doug Tibbits, Paul Praschnik, and Trent Sherwin, we have finished our new 10 x 12 hydroponics greenhouse. Almost all of the supplies were donated or recycled!  I’m looking forward to growing food year round in it! This is it finished with the shade cloth to keep it cool during the…

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