After approximately four years of planning, attending many workshops
and farm visits, completing requirements for the Missouri
Entrepreneurship Grant, and finishing construction of our customized
high tunnel...we're off! During the past seven years Farmer Karl has
been experimenting with blueberries, tomatoes, raspberries (yet to
produce), pumpkins (gorgeous), lettuce, radishes, and a variety of other
successes and failures. We are a small scale operation with many
processes yet to complete, but we are in for the long haul. To get this
"tour" started...here is a pic of Farmer Karl and two of our five
grandsons after picking pumpkins from last summer's surprise pumpkin
patch. I say surprise because the drought caused us to feel the
irrigated patch that was all but lost would not produce. Much to our
delight, we were able to harvest several beautiful pumpkins to sell, and
also gave our local elementary kindergarten class of 50 students a
pumpkin to take home! Maggie is a kindergarten teacher who has always
wanted a pumpkin patch, so this certainly delighted her and her students! More to come from the farmer himself...