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At Last: Progress!


Our four brand-new hydroponic growing systems are now up and running. Just yesterday, we started our first seedlings in them, and it’s hard to contain our excitement!

With the construction part of this expansion finally behind us, we can now turn our attention to the greens and lettuces that these new systems will be home to.

In just a few weeks, these seedlings will have been grown, harvested, and found their way into kitchens throughout our community. Stay tuned – we’ll be sure to keep you updated on what’s happening at the farm in the near future!

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Under Construction

Our growing capabilities are in the midst of a major upgrade, so if you stop by the farm this week, please pardon our appearance. The process of building four new machines on site has left the place looking slightly disheveled, but we’d like to think that’s just what progress looks like. The results will be coming soon: more greens, grown better, always the freshest!

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Milk Bok Choy

Milk Bok Choy is another vegetable that’s new to us, and we think it’s gorgeous, in addition to being high in vitamins and quite tasty too. What’s interesting about our Milk Bok Choy is that in our hydroponic environment, it took on some unique properties, most notably growing more outward than upward, as the picture on the seed packet led us to believe (lol).

This gets right to the point about the effects of different (yet equally suitable) environments, on growing food. While there’s nothing wrong at all with food that looks as good as it tastes, we probably should choose our food more for taste and nutrition, and not so much for its appearance. The food you get in your average grocery store is more often than not selected for its beauty, while food with blemishes or a less-than-perfect appearance is used for other products or, even worse, discarded.

We are in no position to discard food. Perfectly edible, good-tasting greens should absolutely get used, whether or not they are going to win any beauty contests. And beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?

Milk Bok Choy

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It’s time to sell some Lettuce.

Today (Tuesday), Thursday and Friday are our first open hours to the public. Come see why we think our Parris Island Cos Romaine Lettuce is better than anything you can buy in the store and way more nutritious.