03/13/2026
For me (Aaron), "late winter" has always been synonymous with "greenhouse." Renovating our 18'x86' heated greenhouse was the first project I did when I came back to the farm in 2021. My dad built this greenhouse around the time I was born, and bent the bows/arches by hand around a dairy silo. Our greenhouse now has electric fans, a modern thermostat controlled wood stove, and roll-up sides for ventilation. And we're still growing beautiful plants in it 30 years later.
As a boy, I mixed many batches of potting soil: equal parts peat, sand, and rich garden soil or compost, with a shovelful of lime, a double handful of greensand, and water to consistency. Over the last 5 years I tried several different pre-mixed compost-based potting soils from Vermont Compost, and Ohio Earth Foods, with excellent success.
This year we are mixing our own potting soil with proprietary ratios: Peat, Charlie's Compost (a Kentucky-made product), perlite, parboiled rice hulls, kelp meal, azomite, lime, rock phosphate, and humates. Making our own blend allows us to match the soil nutrition/texture to the specific crop. It seems to be working - plants don't lie.
We'll have plants available to order starting next week. If you are a CSA member, you'll get regular updates and can order through our CSA system. Those of you who aren't CSA members can order by message, call, text, email, or drop in. *Do note we have a new business phone number listed on the page.*
