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    I told Alx in the early spring I would send him some pictures of the farm where I work.
    Well...being the day before New Year's Eve I am going through my list of 'things I said I'd do this year". So, here you go Alx.



    I work at an organic farm on the Front Range of Colorado. We Farm about 18 acres in three different fields.
    I took these pictures the first week or two of June.



    On the forum here this summer there was talk about caging tomatoes and different ways that people here support their tomato plants.
    We trellis our tomatoes at work. I do this at home too.
    I can grow tomatoes 2 feet apart this way. CU did a study showing that you get higher yeilds when you trellis because of the extra sun exposure. IMO this is the way to grow tomatoes.



    THese tomatoes were planted the first week of March and kept in Wall-o-Waters. That's why they are so big. When I took this picture we just took off the Wall-0-Waters and we have to trellis right away or the plants fall over.


    We grew about 500 heirloom and cherry tomatoes in WOW. We like to give them a good start on the season.
    In the above picture you can see the field tomatoes planted to the top of the picture. We planted about 4000 field tomatoes.



    Just a picture looking at the other side of the field.
    We are certified organic so we have very little defense against pests. We use remay/row cover to keep bugs off the plants. That's the blanket looking stuff you see. The brassicas get worms and catapillars if we don't cover them.


    The first leeks this year


    Parsnips and burdock


    One of my main duties is taking care of the herbs for restauant orders.
    Anyway, here is a piture of some horseradish. We sell a ton of hoseradish root! I think it is a beautiful plant.

    Below here are our early potatoes. We grow them under plastic mulch. They grow so fast we don't have to weed them with the plastic.




    Here are the late season potatoes after hilling them up.


    More brassicas under row cover.




    This is probably my favorite farm implement. It's called a "water wheel'.
    That is our token vegan hippy sitting on the water wheel.
    It's pretty self expainitory what it does right?
    Two people sit on the back of the WW and the tractor slowly moves forward and the WW dibbles holes and deposits water in the dibbled hole and the 'passangers' stick the plant in the hole.



    Close up of WW


    Planted out. It takes about 20 minutes to do a 100 foot row.


    So, there you go. A day at the farm with Mo.
    Thanks for looking and staying with it if you got through this whole post.

    Mo
    "And I SWORE I would not read, much less post in that thread, dammit!

  • #2
    Wow that is very impressive. Thank you very much for taking the time to post this. I'm a huge fan of organic farming and have a great respect for the amount of work it takes. I'd give ya points but Squirrel got me early with her fried pork chop meal lol. How many of you does it take to work the 18 acres?
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    • #3
      Thanks for looking.
      We have anywhere from 5 or 6 people early and late season to 18 to 20 in August and September.
      "And I SWORE I would not read, much less post in that thread, dammit!

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      • #4
        Mo that is awesome! Thanks for the tips on the tomatoes. I caged all of mine this year, okay results but will trellis next year for sure. Man, I would love to work on an organic farm. Lots of hard work, but very rewarding I'm sure! Thanks for posting gurly!

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        • #5
          Wow, that's just awesome!!! makes me want it to be spring again!


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          • #6
            very cool.......thx for posting!
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            • #7
              That is awesome, Mo! What a beautiful farm!

              Originally posted by moselle View Post
              Close up of WW
              Yep, those things are great. We call them tobacco setters here. When I grew up, not only did we use it to set tobacco, but also to plant the tomato plants. They are even good for planting seeds, too!



              Thanks so much for sharing you pics!!
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              • #8
                Fantastic Farm Mo
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                • #9
                  Very cool indeed. And I'm sure that is right up Alex's alley there. Always envious of his garden pics at the end of summer.
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                  • #10
                    great pics mo!!! love the gardening stuff!!!
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                    • #11
                      Love the farm pics. I always wondered if those wall-o-water's actually did what they claim. Might have to try those.


                      Tom

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                      • #12
                        WOW...Thanks for posting Mo....Very impressive...This region was hit very hard by stink bugs(brown marmorated) that came over in shipping crates 15 years ago....Took about 1/4 of my crop...No known control for them...

                        Thanks again for sharing...

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                        • #13
                          Well now, ain't that some fancy dibblin..

                          I was raised on a farm in Mississippi. They didn't make plastic back then. Just Ho's. I think the days were longer back then too...And we had to walk uphill to school both ways..

                          Things sure change... Nice pics.. Thanks!
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                          • #14
                            Super cool Mo. Loved the tour.
                            Keith

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                            • #15
                              Thanks for the tour. That is a cool farm.

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