Clover Creek Farm

Thursday, December 26, 2013

High Tunnel Project Completion | The Richard Mason Show

With my high tunnel finished earlier this year, I have been very busy! So here is a montage of all the video that I recorded during the construction. Don't worry it's only 3:20 minutes long! If you like this video, give me a comment!

Friday, August 2, 2013

Clover Creek Farm Store!

So I decided to empty my repertoire of photos I've took this year. I've used all of these photos on Facebook, but its just not the same as sharing on my blog. I hope you enjoy!

So early this year we began to plant in our high tunnel for the first time! First I plowed, then I tilled and then...I picked up rocks. Lots and lots of rocks! Enough to fill a pickup truck! I tilled multiple times and after each time, I picked up a more rocks. If I had a penny for each rock I picked up, I'd have a million pennies. After the ground was smooth like we wanted, Rachael and I began to plant. First we transplanted broccoli. Then we planted spinach and lettuce. A couple months later, we had a delicious salad harvest!

Tilling in the high tunnel.

Rachael transplanting the broccoli.

So one of our cows had a calf. We had bred her to a purebred Guernsey Bull, so that would make this young'un half Guernsey, half Jersey!

"Why'd you wake me up?"

Here, Rachael and I decided to sift our compost so that we could have better planting material while starting seeds. When you sift it, you eliminate all the large chunks of debris that just takes up space in the planting containers. Here I am with our finished product.

"Looks good enough to eat!"

So this year, I decided to open a roadside produce stand on the farm. So far I have sold zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, petunias, tomato plants, mushrooms, blackberries, strawberries and honey! I have had a ball selling at the store. It's only open on Fridays from 2:00pm-6:00pm. Whatever I don't sell on that day, I take to the Harrogate Farmer's Market on saturdays and tuesdays.