Project Pomona

Elder Hill Farms will be showcasing our efforts in Regenerative Agriculture at Camp Lucy’s BBQ and Bourbon tomorrow evening. Come eat some wonderful food, sip on cool drinks and learn about our projects which include new partnerships with local businesses that are helping to make amazing things possible!!!
See you there!
PS: we’ll have an aquaponics demo, kunekune piglets, and even a microscope set up for viewing all the cool things in soil.
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It’s about to get real ya’ll!!!!!
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Week after week we are planting different varieties in the DWC. The ‘Deep Water Container’ is only about 12 inches deep, but it provides all the nutrients these little plants need to grow in nothing but water and gravel container pots. We use fish waste water to nourish the plants; the plants clean and filter the water; the water is returned to the fish tanks. It’s a pretty straightforward system. Complex yet simple. Here we are with three weeks of growth, seeds that were first planted on Jan 2nd.
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I’ve teased about these new puppies….here’s a group of them. There are 9! Mama is a registered , and we’ve sent off a DNA test to get the rundown of Daddy. So exciting!!!

I’m late posting photos from our pre-Christmas deep freeze, but the greenhouse made it through well. It’s always a worry that we’ll lose the plants when we reach temps of 7 degrees……but we do what we can and hope for the best. This year we put up insulation over the water wall opening and covered the fan output vents with the same polyCarbonate siding used on the sides. With walls fully inflated and a small camp stove of boiling water putting warm steam into the air using a small propane tank, we kept the air above freezing inside the greenhouse even when it reached 7 degrees outside. Being in central Texas, we never intended to outfit our greenhouses with heaters. Hopefully these severe cold temperatures will change with the weather pattern this upcoming year. If not, we will continue to adapt!
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