Friday, March 12, 2010
Wonders amongst us
Tre"AWEN has brought us many wonders,such as wonderings of how are we were going to build it, it is built. Wonders on how we were going to fill it, it is filled. Wonders on how are we going to give some of our veggie plants away and /or sale them, we are doing just that. Wonders on the surroundings of our greenhouse, what will the cloud really look like surronded by a halo of flowers? It will be surrounded by beautiful trees and flowers thanks to the generousity of a friend named Betty, our wish and dream was heard by her soul and she knew that her plants and trees wanted to surround the cloud. So she asked that we come take her trees and plants and bring them to Tre"AWEN. For those who cannot experience the miracles that are happening here my wish is that you can experience it, open your heart and mind, maybe you can make your wishes come true. A I walk my path from my home to the greenhouse, I walk thru the woods, I find quietness, I find peace, I find harmony, I find wonders. Please go out and find your path and find your peace, find your wonders! And K, I hope one day you too will fly like the bird, at least your spirit, do not go jumping off of your house!
Just wishing so is not what makes it happen
How many of us have wished on or about something and then sat back and wondered why it never came to be. I know I have. It took a long time for me to realize that words alone are not good enough to make a wish come true, I had to do something about it. I wished for a greenhouse filled with plants , I have had this wish for years, but truthfully all I did was talk about it. So when a friend had the same wish as I did, I thought okay Eve, you have to make it happen. You have to be physical and actually do something to make such a wish come true. So I did, and as you can tell , a greenhouse was born. So now what are we going to do, we are going to get pots, get seeds, get water, get to work in making our wish come true. Some had little faith, some were afraid, some had little knowledge and some only had slightly more. This I knew though, we did not just throw dirt in pots, and then stick seeds in along with adding water. We filled the dirt and the seeds and the water with wishes and dreams. So when I walk into the greenhouse and see all of the rows of seedlings sticking their little heads up out of the dirt, I know that it is because of those wishes and dreams.
Our greenhouse is the magical place of wishes and dreams , of love and of hope. Our Tre'AWEN is our little place of heaven on earth. When I walk towards the greenhouse early in the morn it looks like a big cloud has landed on the ground, it is a cloud I can walk into. I look up and see the little rain drops on the plastic and I smile. I have flown in planes before and I have flown in clouds, I have seen the rain on the windows of the planes and this is what the greenhouse looks like to me, droplets of dew from the cloud on earth. It is filled with the love and dreams and wishes of many good friends, this is what makes our greenhouse special.
So each day as I walk in the greenhouse and look around, I will smile, I know that all will be just fine. Peace on earth and good will to all has a new meaning to me. The greenhouse brings peace and goodwill to all. So the next time you make a wish, please consider that actions speak louder then words, so go make your wishes come true.
Our greenhouse is the magical place of wishes and dreams , of love and of hope. Our Tre'AWEN is our little place of heaven on earth. When I walk towards the greenhouse early in the morn it looks like a big cloud has landed on the ground, it is a cloud I can walk into. I look up and see the little rain drops on the plastic and I smile. I have flown in planes before and I have flown in clouds, I have seen the rain on the windows of the planes and this is what the greenhouse looks like to me, droplets of dew from the cloud on earth. It is filled with the love and dreams and wishes of many good friends, this is what makes our greenhouse special.
So each day as I walk in the greenhouse and look around, I will smile, I know that all will be just fine. Peace on earth and good will to all has a new meaning to me. The greenhouse brings peace and goodwill to all. So the next time you make a wish, please consider that actions speak louder then words, so go make your wishes come true.
Once upon a time
There was a time when families helped each other. They would come together and plow the fields and harvest the crops, they would work together and build the homes and the barns. Famillies would assist each other in preserving the crops that were harvested. It was something understood by all of the "locals". We have drifted apart from contact with human beings. Most of us can open the window in our home and practicly touch our neighboors home yet we know nothing of our neighbors! We leave our front doors and we see people living amongst us yet we know nothing about them. I think and feel that it is time that we change that. It really does take a village! What is wrong with having our neighbors assist us, what is wrong with sharing our work and our rewards? Why do we want to close our selves off and drift away into our caves we call home. Can we not build more and grow more if we work together? Can we not have a better party if we have true friends joining us? Sure , we all have people that we know, but how many are really true friends? Why not enjoy the fact that coming together as a village really does work. Yes, okay some of us are located too far apart from our neighbor because we have large plots of land. I do believe that a village mentality is needed, it does not matter the distance apart , what matters is the ability to come together as a village. I do believe that we have it started here with some of our neighbors in Tre'AWEN, and I do believe that it will grow. I have faith and I do hope that more will be willing to join in on the effort to create a village mentality , enjoy the neighbors, work with them as well as laugh with them. Life is short, go enjoy it while you can.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tre'AWEN and more
No Greenhouse veggies here
Gardening news: March 6th 2010 from a Scranton Newspaper
Shoppers should brace for the attack of the killer tomato prices.
The outcome of Florida's devastating frost in mid-January surfaces in soaring vegetable aisle prices at grocery stores.
"Tomato prices are probably 30 to 35 percent more over the last two to three days," Rocco Galassi, a produce specialist at Gerrity's Supermarket, said Friday. "We're looking at $3 a pound for green peppers next week.
"Prices are about double what they usually are this time of year."
Days of subfreezing temperatures in Florida wiped out about 70 percent of the state's winter vegetable crop, leaving Mexico as the sole supplier for much of the U.S. market.
Steady demand and short supply result in prices that may convince vegetable eaters to forgo tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers and bell peppers in a short-term shift to root vegetables, winter squash and other price-stable produce.
"These prices will ride with us right through the end of March and probably factor in April," predicted Craig Pallman, president of Summit Harvest Inc., a Clarks Summit tomato wholesaler.
Before the Florida frost, Mr. Pallman paid $9.95 for a 25-pound carton of Florida tomatoes.
"Right now, you are dealing with a product in Mexico that's as high as $32.95," he said.
Green beans normally priced at $20 a bushel are $50 now and green peppers, normally about $15 a bushel, are at least $40, said Paul Holmes, general manager at DiMare Fresh Inc., a produce wholesaler in South Scranton.
He sees an even longer period of high prices and crimped supplies and predicts retail tomato prices will nudge $4 a pound next week.
"It's definitely projected to stick around until May," Mr. Holmes said. "It's the real deal now and it's going to continue."
Quality issues concern grocers during shortages, resulting in profit losses from inferior products.
"We're having a hard time now getting green beans, and the beans we get are really not our standard," Mr. Galassi said.
"We have whole cases that we just send back," said Gerrity's co-owner Joe Fasula.
The trouble also affects the restaurant sector. Some fast-food chains are serving tomatoes on sandwiches only by request, and sit-down restaurants are reconfiguring menus.
"Restaurants are cutting their orders in half," Mr. Holmes said. "They are calling daily for prices."
Excessive prices eventually recede because products cost themselves out of reach.
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Reasons to have a greenhouse
Steve Carpenter, owner of Jack-O-Lantern Farms in Muscle Shoals, said sales of the salad tomatoes grown there have picked up in the past two weeks. The farm grows tomatoes and other produce in greenhouses on the Tennessee Valley Authority Reservation.
"We went down to the wholesale market the other day, and they were short on pretty much everything, but we have a good supply of everything we grow," Carpenter said.
Claunch said purchasing produce from Carpenter has helped shield him from some of the recent price increases. "We're fortunate to have a supplier like Jack-O-Lantern Farms right here in the Shoals that can provide much of the produce we use," he said.
A fruit that Carpenter does not grow that is helping drive up Claunch's grocery bill is strawberries.
"We try to maintain our menu prices regardless of what our supplies are costing," Claunch said. "We're not like the gas station where they change prices every day. With strawberry prices doing what they are, I'm going to cringe a little whenever somebody orders a strawberry salad until the prices begin coming down in a few weeks."
Okay, I have given you the news and the reasons to have a greenhouse, thank god we have a greenhouse !
Yes it is work to plant and care for vegetables, but it is fun work. We get to eat what we have worked for and the cost is much less! Everyday one of us if not all of us have spent time in our greenhouse, preparing the interior as well as planting. For the most part we have 75% of our vegetable seeds planted. Tomatoes, 3 or 4 different types, bush beans, squash, cucumbers, onions, peas, 3 types, lettuce, spinach, cabbage. I am sure I left out something. The plan is to grow not only seedlings for moving outside into the garden plots but to maintain growing vegetables year round in the greenhouse so we will have a constant supply. This is a new venture for all of us, loving every minute of it to. We are finding out that the thermal mass water barrels are working, yeah. On k and Tony's land is a 30 by 40 plot tilled up by a neighbor for us, he was hired to do this and he will return to turn it over a few more times. On our land we have a 40 by 50 size plot that the neighbor also tilled up for us. Good to have great neighbors. On our section we will grow 2 types of sweet corn as well as pole beans and potatoes. The Rowlands will be planting a little bit of everything in their plot. Our plot by our house will also be planted with asst. vegetables that we have started in the greenhouse. We will be doing an experiment with the vegetables to see if they grow better outside or inside.
I have included a few more pictures of our greenhouse outside and in. Please remember that I love having you all add comments, please share your advice on growing vegetables with us as we are all still learning.
Also on another note, if your inner voice is speaking to you , please listen.
I will tell you that story another day! So you all get busy in your gardens, it is a picture perfect day here while I wait for the rain.
Front of the greenhouse
Tea table
Many seedlings
More seedlings and thermal mass barrels
Planting spinach in pvc pipe tables.
Gardening news: March 6th 2010 from a Scranton Newspaper
Shoppers should brace for the attack of the killer tomato prices.
The outcome of Florida's devastating frost in mid-January surfaces in soaring vegetable aisle prices at grocery stores.
"Tomato prices are probably 30 to 35 percent more over the last two to three days," Rocco Galassi, a produce specialist at Gerrity's Supermarket, said Friday. "We're looking at $3 a pound for green peppers next week.
"Prices are about double what they usually are this time of year."
Days of subfreezing temperatures in Florida wiped out about 70 percent of the state's winter vegetable crop, leaving Mexico as the sole supplier for much of the U.S. market.
Steady demand and short supply result in prices that may convince vegetable eaters to forgo tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers and bell peppers in a short-term shift to root vegetables, winter squash and other price-stable produce.
"These prices will ride with us right through the end of March and probably factor in April," predicted Craig Pallman, president of Summit Harvest Inc., a Clarks Summit tomato wholesaler.
Before the Florida frost, Mr. Pallman paid $9.95 for a 25-pound carton of Florida tomatoes.
"Right now, you are dealing with a product in Mexico that's as high as $32.95," he said.
Green beans normally priced at $20 a bushel are $50 now and green peppers, normally about $15 a bushel, are at least $40, said Paul Holmes, general manager at DiMare Fresh Inc., a produce wholesaler in South Scranton.
He sees an even longer period of high prices and crimped supplies and predicts retail tomato prices will nudge $4 a pound next week.
"It's definitely projected to stick around until May," Mr. Holmes said. "It's the real deal now and it's going to continue."
Quality issues concern grocers during shortages, resulting in profit losses from inferior products.
"We're having a hard time now getting green beans, and the beans we get are really not our standard," Mr. Galassi said.
"We have whole cases that we just send back," said Gerrity's co-owner Joe Fasula.
The trouble also affects the restaurant sector. Some fast-food chains are serving tomatoes on sandwiches only by request, and sit-down restaurants are reconfiguring menus.
"Restaurants are cutting their orders in half," Mr. Holmes said. "They are calling daily for prices."
Excessive prices eventually recede because products cost themselves out of reach.
*****************************************************************************
Reasons to have a greenhouse
Steve Carpenter, owner of Jack-O-Lantern Farms in Muscle Shoals, said sales of the salad tomatoes grown there have picked up in the past two weeks. The farm grows tomatoes and other produce in greenhouses on the Tennessee Valley Authority Reservation.
"We went down to the wholesale market the other day, and they were short on pretty much everything, but we have a good supply of everything we grow," Carpenter said.
Claunch said purchasing produce from Carpenter has helped shield him from some of the recent price increases. "We're fortunate to have a supplier like Jack-O-Lantern Farms right here in the Shoals that can provide much of the produce we use," he said.
A fruit that Carpenter does not grow that is helping drive up Claunch's grocery bill is strawberries.
"We try to maintain our menu prices regardless of what our supplies are costing," Claunch said. "We're not like the gas station where they change prices every day. With strawberry prices doing what they are, I'm going to cringe a little whenever somebody orders a strawberry salad until the prices begin coming down in a few weeks."
Okay, I have given you the news and the reasons to have a greenhouse, thank god we have a greenhouse !
Yes it is work to plant and care for vegetables, but it is fun work. We get to eat what we have worked for and the cost is much less! Everyday one of us if not all of us have spent time in our greenhouse, preparing the interior as well as planting. For the most part we have 75% of our vegetable seeds planted. Tomatoes, 3 or 4 different types, bush beans, squash, cucumbers, onions, peas, 3 types, lettuce, spinach, cabbage. I am sure I left out something. The plan is to grow not only seedlings for moving outside into the garden plots but to maintain growing vegetables year round in the greenhouse so we will have a constant supply. This is a new venture for all of us, loving every minute of it to. We are finding out that the thermal mass water barrels are working, yeah. On k and Tony's land is a 30 by 40 plot tilled up by a neighbor for us, he was hired to do this and he will return to turn it over a few more times. On our land we have a 40 by 50 size plot that the neighbor also tilled up for us. Good to have great neighbors. On our section we will grow 2 types of sweet corn as well as pole beans and potatoes. The Rowlands will be planting a little bit of everything in their plot. Our plot by our house will also be planted with asst. vegetables that we have started in the greenhouse. We will be doing an experiment with the vegetables to see if they grow better outside or inside.
I have included a few more pictures of our greenhouse outside and in. Please remember that I love having you all add comments, please share your advice on growing vegetables with us as we are all still learning.
Also on another note, if your inner voice is speaking to you , please listen.
I will tell you that story another day! So you all get busy in your gardens, it is a picture perfect day here while I wait for the rain.
Front of the greenhouse
Tea table
Many seedlings
More seedlings and thermal mass barrels
Planting spinach in pvc pipe tables.
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