Chicken Scratch

Here at Green Angel, we start all our wonderful vegetables we grow in seed trays. These are 200 individual cells that I fill with special soil and place a seed in each cell. Then we set them under lights to keep them warm and moist.

 September 30th ( about a week and a half ago) I started 8 different things, like beets, chard, kale, bokchoy, spinach and a variety of different lettuces. They all sprouted and were growing normal untill the beginning of this week. I noticed that there were only stems left of a lot of the little babys. Then I noticed little mice droppings all through out the trays. So I take them out from under the lights, when I came back the next day..more were eaten.

We finally get 4 different traps, set them with peanut butter and leave them out for the night. They were checked the next morning and a couple of them had been set off but no mouse.

The mouse had gone along and ate more of our vegetable starts. So today, Larkin went out and bought some kind of sound machine that they aren’t suppose to like and it keeps them away. I’ll let you know after a couple days. I did more seedtrays so let’s hope so.

Just goes to show, even the most disgustings little creatures know’s where to get the best organic vegetables.

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Write back later!

So today I have been working a little bit on our Community Supported Agriculture. Our goal is to have 20 members.  We have reached that goal in the past, especially since we have established a drop-off point over in Astoria. 

I have set a personal goal of getting 30 members this time around. So I have made a flyer to hang around to let everyone know that there is a CSA available here on the peninsula. Last night I went and pasted them all over this little town and when I came into work this morning I had already gotten calls from people who saw the flyers and wanted to JOIN! I’m so excited, I think CSA is really a great way for people to learn and understand where their food is coming from. You don’t know who grows those salad greens you by over in Safeway, or where those baby carrots came from. Purchasing produce from local farms lets people get to know the hands that feed them. 

So help support local farms and join a CSA around your area, or if you can visit our farm-store…come by and you can see where YOUR food is coming from. 

www.localharvest.com  will help you find a CSA in your area.