Author: ybfarm

Good morning everyone! It is a brisk and cool day here at the farm. There were flurries this morning! It was very exciting. I am sure by the end of winter that will no longer excite me as much as it did today. But for me, the first flurry is always very exciting. I love […]

Hello everyone! The greenhouse is finally back in production! The ambient noise I didn’t realize I would miss has returned. The gentle hum in the air from the pumps once again surrounds me. And the magenta glow of the lights once again brightens the greenhouse. We are still putting everything back together in here but […]

For those of you who have never been in a greenhouse before, there’s one thing they all have in common: they’re noisy. There are fans big and small that run. There may be heaters going if it is too cold. Hoses generate the familiar sound of water splatting on the ground. And in a hydroponic […]

Hi everyone! Happy Fall. The best time of year. The time of cozy sweaters, hot cocoa, pumpkins, and magical colors outside. And the best part, the break from the oppressive heat of summer. I personally love fall. I love to decorate, its basically in my dna to decorate come holiday time, just ask my grandma. […]

Hello friends, strangers, and spam commentators. Lets talk about roots today. Roots are really cool. They hold the plant in place, take in water and nutrients for the plants, they can graft plants together, allowing them to communicate and share, and they can form relationships with bacteria and fungi to further provide for the plants. […]

Hello my avid readers and spam commenters! I know its been a while since I last posted but I’ve been busy harvesting away. Today I want to talk about sprouts. For those of you who don’t know, sprouts are basically just baby plants. They are kind of like microgreens, but they are grown for significantly […]

Hi again my avid readers and spam commenters. It is hotter than Hades here at the farm, both inside and outside of the greenhouse. I can’t decide if moving or sitting still is hotter its that hot. Things in the greenhouse are going well. We got some lacewings in to feast on our wonderful pest […]

Hello my avid readers! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather we are finally having after seemingly endless rain. It is currently about 98 degrees in the greenhouse right now with standard greenhouse humidity, aka its extremely humid too. Its really fun, I am currently sweating out of literally every pore on my […]

Hello my faithful audience! I have FINALLY finished sorting through all of the spam comments on the website. I deleted well over 8000 spam comments, 8000!!!! Out of all of those comments, 1 got approved. That’s it, one tiny little comment from a man doing hydroponics in India. But man is it a good feeling […]

Hi everyone, me again. Today I want to write a bit about spiders. I can tell you that I have been absolutely terrified of spiders since I was little. Hate em do not want them, respect them- yes, but hate them. For the most part they are creepy and ugly and hairy and just gross. […]