So Friday was an interesting day and one where acquiring some of the pieces that Ken and I had been talking about. The day started when I walked in the door at work and found two of my coworkers talking about me. Somehow or another they had gotten wind of the fact that I was looking for shipping pallets ( free wood for garden boxes-yay!) So I wound up with 6 pallets to start and a source for more once I have figured out how to break these down...
Not even an hour later a different coworker stop by to talk to me and she and I started comparing notes about some of the new projects we are doing ( she's been working towards a self sufficient lifestyle for a while now) and I told her that my husband had been interested in learning how to grow mushroom but that we had been having a difficult time finding a kit for beginners. Lo and behold one of her friends grows mushrooms and she happened to know the name of a local shop in Akron.
To top it all off, our potatoes came from Burpee on Friday which means that Ken spent a good portion of the day on Friday getting the garden ready to plant onions and potatoes. If all works out we should get about 3-400 pounds of potatoes to freeze and dry come October. Maybe my kids will start to understand how their ancestors survived on nothing but potatoes... The four of us got to spend some time together Friday night planting garlic, onions and potatoes. I really hope all of this work pays off as the weather has been fairly loopy around here as of late. It was nearly 80 degrees on Friday and tomorrow they are saying that some local areas could receive up to a foot of snow!
Kinda makes me glad that Ken and I didn't get overzealous in putting some of the seedlings out last month when the heat wave came through Ohio...
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