Farm Visits and Gardening

These past two weeks have been more down for me than any other couple of weeks but still a whole lot to do. To start off the week we had just gotten back from Camp which was awesome. But when getting back to the office it was a lot of paperwork, and getting things reorganized. That night the Adult Bee Club met and I was able to attend. I do not have any experience with Bees, and honestly I am sort of afraid of them. It was so interesting to learn though. And made me want to get into the Bee business. I got to go out to the bee hive and watch them feed the bees. Of course we went to several tobacco fields to see what problems they have been having. One we visited had a temporary phosphorus deficiency which makes their leaves have a spotted color, but that will go away. One day it was just me in the office since everyone else was basically off. So I ran the office, and feel I did a pretty good job. So most of that day I worked on my personal project and found a lot of info on it! The state specialist came because we had been having problems with a tobacco patch whose buds were coming off or being cut off and we could not figure out the problem. And apparently it wasn't only here. He said he had been seeing it across the state.

The next week was an amazing week for me. We met with a teacher from Cloverport. She had sent an email about wanting to turn a vacant city lot into a garden. This is exactly what I wanted to do in some sort of fashion for my individual project. And now I have a basis to start. So I travelled out the Cloverport to look at the area and take samples of the ground. And it looks as though we are going to need raised beds. And they want both a vegetable garden and a flower garden, which I am excited about because a pollinator garden is awesome and is beautiful at the same time as helpful.

And here at our office we planted our raised beds as well. and it turned out great!! It was so much fun and makes me want to start my own garden. We planted 300 pound pumpkins, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, zucchini, squash, green beans, cucumbers.

Before doing anything

after hoeing and putting string on.

Me planting peppers.

after job was done

after job was done

This weekend I opened up the Farmers Market. People are so anxious for it. They were there at like 6:00 and already buying stuff even before the doors were open. Then once they were open people flooded in. It was so cool. And their food looked amazing. Also This Saturday we made fleece blankets with the Teen Club for the local Nursing Home. So that was really nice to help with. These next two week will be beyond busy with fair stuff and fairgrounds cleaning and getting fair books put together.