While the fields are thriving in this unseasonably warm and dry summer, they are at the expense of the pond. The water level has been dropping as each time we irrigate we use around 2500 gallons for the whole farm. Each time it rains we are thankful!
Tag: Water
New Irrigation System
As part of a USDA grant we are beginning a new project on the farm. This new irrigation system will hopefully make watering the fields easier and more automated. We hope that waking up at 11 at night remembering that we didn’t shut of the water to the greenhouse or field will be a thing…
Irrigation
After this dry May we desperately began to feel the need for anther way to irrigate the fields. Up until now we had been watering the greenhouse and fields from the house. The dry May weather was certainly over taxing the house system as we found ourselves irrigating for nearly 12 hours a day. Jeff…
