Progress Journal

9 Mar 2020

2020 First Lettuce and Spinach has germinated!

27 Feb 2020

St. Catherine of Siena, Wilmington, DE; Thank you for Supporting this Ministry!

On behalf of Big Heart Harvest Farming Ministry, I would like to take the opportunity to thank Fr. John Hines and the parishioners of St. Catherine of Siena, Wilmington, DE for your kind financial support of this effort to serve those in need. Your generosity is inspiring.

24 Feb 2020

Built elevated beds in the greenhouse to for planting efficiency and to get an early start on planting. Carrots, beets, and lettuce are already seeded.

21 Feb 2020

Water Efficient

I spent some time rerouting the barn drain gutters to catch rain water to irrigate inside the greenhouse. Using materials that we already had kept the cost at $0.

21 Feb 2020

Greenhouse Water catchment system

Rerouted inside the Greenhouse water catchment system

Rerouted downspout to the greenhouse

31 Jan 2020

Wintertime organization and chicken chasing

I’ve been spending the winter time organizing the woodshop and all donated materials. This gives us a better opportunity of knowing what we have so we can build more gardens.

A little bit of time is also spent catching and clipping the wings of chickens that feel brazen enough to jump the fence. If you’ve ever seen the movie “Chicken run”, I AM A BELIEVER.

8 Jan 2020

St. Martin of Tours, New Hope, PA; Thank you for Support if this ministry!

On behalf of Big Heart Harvest Farming Ministry, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the parishioners of Saint Martin of Tours, New Hope for your kind generosity and financial support of this ministry from those of you who attended the 5pm Vigil Mass on January 4, 2020. Your generosity is inspiring.

1 Dec 2019

1 Dec 2019

8 May 2019

New Chicks

We have already given away app. 30 dozen eggs this year. These new additions will help us to provide so much more. Thank you to Immaculate Conception, Douglassville for the donation of these chicks.

1 May 2019

The first of the new elevated gardens are made and seeds are sprouting!

We plan to construct more of these. With all the rain, it has been very helpful because the excess water just drains through the bottom. They are also high enough to keep the rabbits out. Thanks to Lawrence for the Donation of the construction materials.

18 Mar 2019

So it was an interesting weekend: I spent last week getting the green house roof on and in shape. Then during our Bible Study on Friday night, a wicked storm came through, ripped half of the roof off the greenhouse and through it about 25 ft in the air where it landed (completely in tack) on top of the roof of our barn. I got up there Saturday (in the wind) took it apart and will be putting it back together today. Life keeps it interesting!

1 May 2019

1 Mar 2019

In the past month we have built a new and larger pen for the geese, the field has been planted with a cover crop to start the spring, and we have generally been getting ready for planting.

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