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We hope you enjoy the stories, news and pictures that we will be sharing through out our growing season. Fertile Crescent Farm, located in Green Bay, Virginia is free of all chemical fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides. It is our mission to grow the highest quality vegetables using a sustainable and ecological approach. This provides our CSA members and farmer's market customers with delicious and safe food, as well as providing a safe environment for the pollinators and pedatory insects that are so essential to our ecological community.



Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Whew, I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief. February is over! There is and there isn't a lot happening out here on the old homestead. So I'll admit I'm searching for something interesting to eek out from the past few weeks. The ground has dried up a bunch - hooray!!! Adam is getting the ground prepped this week. This consists of plowing the soil, adding amendments,and laying down drip tape. The soil amendments we use are compost, green sand, rock phosphate and alfalfa meal. The new deer fencing should arrive sometime this week. We've torn down the old fence already, so hopefully the new one will go up later this week or next week. Then we'll be putting stuff in the ground. Whoop! Whoop! This is the moment we have all been waiting for!

Interesting little fact.... mice love pepper seeds. Who knew?

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