This video documents a tour of Farragut Farm, which is a small commercial farm in Southeast Alaska run by Marja Smets and Bo Varsano. A group from Wrangell made the trip by boat with Breakaway Adventures in order to get to the farm located in Farragut Bay north of Petersburg on the mainland. The tour covers composting; the process of growing vegetable starts; workers & work season; early & later crops; growing zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, garlic; movable greenhouses; pests; crop transportation & markets; prior land use & farming experience; tools; and harvest prep & packaging. See additional description of the updated composting system below*
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* I asked Bo what he meant when he said, "We don't use those anymore" referring to the composting bins, and he emailed clarification:
"Making compost has been primarily my department and in the summer time it (hopefully in the past!) occupies a big % of my overall farm labor. We always used to just do the bin to bin flip method and turned all the piles every 2 weeks by hand with a pitchfork...a LOT of work when you have 9 piles."
"A couple of years ago we started composting in larger free standing piles (no bins) outside using "filter fabric" geotex cloth as a covering material. This stuff allows the pile to breath and pass moisture out but it also does a really good job of wicking the rain down around the pile through the fabric and keeps the piles quite dry. At first we turned the piles by hand but now we use the tractor. It takes about 10 minutes to turn a big pile with the tractor and about 2 hours to do it by hand."
"We also built the hot tub time machine this year and when we figure out how best to feed it I think it will also be a productive and low labor way to make compost. We still used one set of bins this year but to a lesser extent than normal and I think we will phase them out completely next year."
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