Googling me?

What kind of Google searches have brought people to my blog?

Here are a handful of recent ones - these are not edited...

why do farmers have ducks on their farms?

• Um? Because farmers LOVE eating duck? At least my husband and I do. But as of now we have no ducks and no immediate plans for getting any...

beaver dam pepper

• We are growing these this year as one of our Ark of Taste Heirloom varieties. I just started the seed this weekend. 180 of them... They should be available at the plant sale if you'd like some...

Amish pie squash

• Another Ark of Taste variety. These things are HUGE! We should have some squash available at the plant sale but we will not know how they start until right before, as they get started much later.

random passage

• Huh? I have a lot of these I guess...

northeast ohio csa farms

• Our CSA is full but we are taking names for our waiting list, so contact us if you are interested.

e&r seed

• We get some of our seeds here. They are an Indiana Amish company - no phone! We were kind of hesitant first time we used them, but now we get some seed from them every year. They have a lot of open pollinated items...

is filtered honey heated

• I actually did a blog post on this last year... It turns out YES. To get unheated honey you need strained, not filtered honey.

farm jobs northeast ohio

• Sorry, no jobs or internships this year. Want to work for free???

New seeder and starting...

Yesterday we recieved our Jang Seeder. This thing, while not cheap is amazing! It seems (based on rolling it around the living room!) to do a great job of percision seeding, just what we need! It is made of heavy steel and is a substantial thing! I need to take photos of ours but this is what it looks like... Now all we need is for it to stop raining for a few dats so we can start planting seeds!

Over the past week we have started thousands of little seeds in the march across our heat mat (to aid germination) before they go into trays. We are able to start about 360 seeds on one cookie sheet using 3/4"x3/4" soil blocks we make. Then one seed goes in each block and the whole tray goes on the heat mat. Problem is that trays are backing up, there is only room for 9 at a time on the heat mat and we still have thousands and thousands and thousands of seeds to start. So it is time to order a second heat mat!

But why would we need so many plants you may ask? Isn't 180 of one type pepper plant more then a small CSA needs? Arne't you growing lots of types of peppers? It is, and we are. But there may just be a late May PLANT SALE in our future... Lots of heirlooms, and some Ark of Taste varieties in there... Let us know if you would be intrested and help us gauge the demand...