Unity Farm Journal - First Week of June 2016

My daughter's post wedding bliss was followed by the newlyweds move out of Tufts (Medford, MA) and a move into a new apartment in Brookline, MA.   My son in law will be attending graduate school in the Longwood Medical Area. Over the past few years, I’ve worked on many moves - parental moves, our own moves, and now my daughter’s move.   At this point, everyone in the family is ideally situated for the next phase of life.   I can only hope we’ll have a decade without any more moves!We’ve had a very unusual May with high heat and high humidity.    That caused the lettuce in the hoop house to bolt so we’ve harvested all the Boston, Bibb, and Romaine lettuce, replacing it with peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and eggplant.    We’ve increased irrigation and kept the hoop house sides maximally opened.  Even the geese are using our water features as drinking foundations.We have our final inspection for organic certification next week.   Once that is done, we’ll be able to use “USDA organic” label on all our products.We’re starting two new businesses on the farm that will enhance our profitability. We generate about 10,000 pounds of finished alpaca compost every year.   We’ve found a local market for organic compost and will be using the product name “Unity Farm Llama Beans”.       I built a compost screener and we've purchased one cubic foot poly bags so that we can cleanly package our aged...
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