Hello friends, A quick posting to update you on our progress last week - we started an inventory! And sprouts, and a watering plan, and a seeding plan, and a planting plan! All of the plans! The greenhouse has now been filled with soil and so we are investigating how to get water in to it. We will likely be reclaiming our old water tank which gets installed in to the back of the truck in order to run a hose to the greenhouse. The other options we discussed were carrying watering can back and forth between the College and greenhouse, or Challenge and greenhouse, which would be very time consuming and physically draining. If you have ideas on how we might be able to get water in to this location, please don't hesitate to comment below. Our sprouts are still making moves upwards and we're continuing to care for them as we go. Our composting systems received a lot of attention two weeks ago so were not worked on much this past week. On Tuesday our team went to have a tour of the greenhouse at Changing Gear which is where we will be starting all of our seedlings for the city planter boxes. Most of the work this past week went to planning start times for planting and how to make sure that we plant everything soon. Thank you to West Coast Seeds, again, for their speedy delivery which allowed us to make growing plans and we can hopefully get started this week. The seeds we ordered vary from plants, such as amaranth, to vegetables, such as cucumber, to edible flowers. Additionally, our greenhouse guys finished an inventory of all the seeds that we have on hand and have started an inventory of all of our greenhouse supplies. As we often have to replace items or purchase new bags of soil, etc, it is in our best interest to have a formal process for our many things! We all took Friday off last week as well to celebrate Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous! If anyone checking in is from Whitehorse, we hope you had a lovely Rendezvous week and ate all of the Cabane A Sucre!
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about usWe are part of the Employ Ability Skills Program with Challenge Disability Resource Group. We take part in a 12-week program that allows us to learn new skills and foster our interest in growing our own food organically. Archives
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