Wee chamomile bbs.

As a small business owner random shipping decisions crack me up. Somebody on eBay shipped me this tablecloth in a plastic bag with nothing but a shipping label on it. 😂 🤣

Damn it feels good to be back in my duds. That executive director clothing is such a pain.

What a very long day. 13 trays and 20 varieties later... 🌶️🫑✨

First, everyone gets a bath in weak chamomile tea. This helps cut down on any potential fungus or bacteria while also helping to soften the seed coat. So, improved germination. 🎉 🌱

I use a lot of stainless steel sauce cups on the farm. They are cheap and easy to sanitize.

It's pepper seeding day!

Cooking with things I grew, preserved, and bartered always feels and tastes best to me!

If you see this post something green.

We're on the mend. Another 3-4 weeks of recovery, it's coming along though! #mrdogishelping #DogsofBlueSky

I always find this thing embarrassing. It explains my interconnected work decently well. This leaves off in 2023. In 2024 I declined to partner with this org again because of their insufficient stance on the occupation of Palestine. So, we won't be getting a cool update for 2024+. #Blackfarmer

2024. After 2 (more) seasons of racial aggression I move the farm. Again. Focus on selling nursery stock of peppers this year. Get a grant to convert to standing height beds, takes the whole season to build them. Plants in ground next year?! 7/7 #urbanfarmer #Blackfarmer #urbanfarming #BIPOCfarmer

2023. Down to one site again - clear across town. Moving the 16x24 tunnel from last year's 2nd grow site. It's absurdly hard to get into the ground. I lose some volunteers to team conflict this day and foolishly hope to never move the tunnel again. Hopeful for abundant peppers again. 6/x

2022. Copacetic is out the window; we don't find out until plants are in the ground. I pay $1k to get out of the lease. Moving the farm in June is terrible. 2 new sites is brutal. Hemmed in by folks who don't want a radical Black farm neighbor. I build the fastest deer fence ever seen. Urban!! 5/x

2021. Still on the island. I'm learning season extension. A second season + your own farm site allows much experimentation and expansion. The biz model flexes to encompass peppers alongside the herbs. The landlord is starting to show his ass and I'm hoping all stays copacetic. 4/x

2020. Farm 2 is on an island. It's essentially a bog part of the year and you can't get into the soil until after April. It's beautifully sad, part of my heart is still there.

Here I will learn everything, including how not to form a farm collective. I won't realize the learning for years. 3/x

2019. The first one is rural and on the side of a hill. It will start to be the end of my body working the way I want it to.

This is where I will learn to use a BCS, build a greenhouse, avoid "easy assembly" sheds, and much more. I move out of the incubator farm a season later. 2/x