Hello friends of the Challenge greenhouse! Oh the things that we did this week! Firstly, we completed more inventory work. Our shelving units have now been reorganized and labelled. Our current sprouts are looking adorable and green (check out the growth process below). Our mites experiments seem to be working and we have sorted out our Bokashi issues. The solution for our Bokashi bucket was fixing one of the washers but we ended up throwing everything out because it was frozen and left outside - Jess' fault. The gang also checked in at the 6-plex as the snow peas have already started sprouting and required a trellis to continue on upwards! We did some purchasing of heaters today to ensure that, when we do get up to the Changing Gear greenhouse in a couple of weeks, it will be warm and ready to start growing. We plant the planter boxes that are located around the city here and will be starting our seeding ASAP. We organized ALL of our seeds as we received another shipment of seeds from West Coast Seeds which were specific to our planter boxes. Terri organized everything wonderfully as you might noticed the yellow tabbed tupperware in the shelving photos below. As well as organizing seeds, the group went and checked out the extent of damages to some of our planter boxes - we now have a plan and will hopefully be getting some of them fixed this summer. In organizing the seeds, the team spent a lengthy amount of time setting timelines for growing the different seeds and planning to make sure that everything grows when it needs to. What an amazing amount of work! What an amazing team! Troubleshooting lights - we had one of our LED tower lights flicker out yesterday and called our representative from Earth Connections Corner. He helped us out right away and we figured out, with his direction, that we had a fault connector wire. We can't thank the ECC team enough for all of their help throughout this garden tower adventure we've embarked on together and look forward to continuing working with them. We will be fixing the issue by next week, I bet! Another task that this team has taken on is the daunting task of creating things that can be used in future programs! The team has created a binder of growing information for towers, greenhouses, companion planting and sprouting (and more!) - to be used in future. They also took time yesterday to create a job description for a greenhouse helper which involves focusing on the tasks they currently do, or are planning to do, also if we ever need to hire a volunteer at any time! Way to go guys! Much administration. Many success.
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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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