Hello, Steemit.
My wife and I are market farmers. We have been farming for six years and although farming has many challenges, we think farming is great. We love the lifestyle and we want to share our journey with you.
When we started farming we had no idea what we were doing. We'd had a successful garden and we thought how hard could farming be? Turns out scaling from a garden to a farm is not easily done. That said, it is possible, and with hard work and passion and a willingness to grow (pun not intended) we now make our living off our land (sometimes being totally naive is a great thing). Long story short, we've made many mistakes over the years and now we thought we'd share what we've learned with you.
We hope for our posts to be useful not only to those who'd like to make money growing food but also useful to any homesteader or home gardener.
If there is anything you'd like to know, ask us in comments below. We'll do future posts about it.
Also if you have any advice about how to use steemit, please help. We are good growers but tec-dummies.
Thank you so much,
we are excited to be here.
Dion, Katie, and Wesley
Heart and Soil Organics.
Wow, thank you so much everyone for all the great comments and up votes too, so cool. We feel so welcomed. and we are very excited to be here. Steemit is a special place isn't it? One of the things that has been hard for both Katie and I moving to the country was leaving all our friends and community in the city. Feels like we might have found something here.
cute boy.
He's a goof, making a silly face here. Great help around the farm (sometimes)
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Good to have you here, @heartandsoil
Right on! A new Steemit homesteader! So glad to have you join our community. I'm looking forward to your future posts; I followed you. Just keep being real. Share with us your successes and your failures so that others can learn. This is a great place to be. Welcome!
Do you have chickens? I love chickens.
Yes, we have a small flock of chickens and also ducks. Ducks are great, we love them, great eggs and they are also great at keeping the slug populations down
yea, keep it real, its a self regulating community
Dion, Katie, and Wesley welcome to steemit. I will follow your blogg i am very interested on living sustainably and organic. Food is the best medicine.
Thank you. Yes, food is, we wholeheartedly agree. If you have any questions about our life and farming? please ask. Farming is great and the truth is it has its ups and downs, but mostly ups and we love it. Thanks for the follow
Yep the mindset is most important and if somting is too easy it become boring :). So ye it is how it is .
Welcome to steemit. Looking forward to hearing about your farming journey. Hope you like it here. Lots of nice people. 🐓🐓
Welcome! Looking forward to reading more about your experiences.
Welcome to Steem. Great work currently I am saving for some land so I can follow suite. Looking forward to some tips :)
Right on! Is there anything you are interesting in knowing about?
Well loads currently I am attempting to grow in pots but we have had so much rain it appear pointless at the moment!
When I worked at the information and help desk at a garden center, a man came in who was growing an unbelievable selection of vegetables IN POTS! He wanted help transitioning to in ground growing. We were so impressed with what he was accomplishing in pots, we told him not to worry, and he would do well. Gardening in pots is great training. Remember: Many crops start out with a potted plant. When you are farming, your "starts" are very important. You want strong healthy plants with 100% potential.
Keep going. Your way of starting works. That's how I started, 46 years ago, because I lived in an apartment. You will connect with the plants and tune into their needs. If a farmer doesn't have that, they shouldn't be farming!
Thanks for your wise words. Currently I am save tin cans and the like to get things rolling not keep on buy loads of plastic pot. Skips and upcycling is going to be my way. Just hope ti all works :)
You are my first "FOLLOW". I am so excited to hear more about your farming and maybe share what part of the country you are in.
Thanks. We are on the west coast of Canada
Welcome aboard!
You'll find lots of friends and help around here, especially the homesteading community. Great folks and glad to see you've joined the party!
Thanks, we are glad to be here
I know these guys, they're SO cool!
Followed, Resteemed & Voted.
Welcome to Steemit!
Great intro :) gonna follow all your farming adventures!🌾 As a nature and food lover i think that is awesome to combine both in 1 as a hobby.. and to have a farm that provides super healthy and fresh food is a bliss nowadays! I grew up on a farm and loved it 💚Show us around the farm a bit 🤗
Welcome to steemit. I can see you will bring a wealth of knowledge with you, yay. Glad to have you aboard.
Thank you :) Any advice on how to use steemit? Also, do you have any questions about farming/gardening?
I don't know if you have read the FAQ yet but definitely worth a read. https://steemit.com/faq.html NO questions as of yet.
Welcome! Looks like you all have green thumbs. :)
Welcome to steemit. Looking forward to your posts. There is a great community of homesteaders here. Upvoted, following and resteemed
Look who's here ^^ @Heartandsoil, Let me welcome you to Steemit. Hope you gonna have fun with our community. Feel free to follow me @rightuppercorner Have a great time @rightuppercorner
Awesome hope to learn from you.
Great name, @heartandsoil! Welcome to Steemit.com. I'm sure you're going to like it here. I'm looking forward to your posts and advice.
Followed!
Hello - welcome to Steemit! Well done on blundering on through all your mistakes and persisting to make your dream come true. From your photo it looks like you've got some great produce! I'd be really interested to know about perhaps some of the ways that your farming works with nature in a divergent way to more conventional farming. I'm especially interested in wild food plants, so if you use these yourselves or even commercialise them I'd be really interested to read those posts. Keep on steeming!! Kate
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STOPA new Steemian ^^ hello @hearandsoil I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk
Welcome to steemit, and I really look forward to your posts.
I will think of a few questions for you, don't worry 😀 I also spent a few years running a small-holding, but have taken some time out. Hoping to once again become largely self-sufficient when I move house.
Good luck here and steem on! 😀
One piece of advice I will give you is to be careful clicking on to links about security, there are a few scammers about.
Thanks for the heads up on scamers
You're welcome, just wanted to warn you to be careful. It's a shame that I have to do that. When I first came to steemit it was different....it's only been in the last couple of months that this became a problem.
Enjoy the platform, it's great.
Hello Dion, Katie, and Wesley, welcome to Steem! :-)
Wow, my sister and her son are entering into growing foods for farmer's markets here in Australia, look forward to more of your posts. oh and welcome to Seemit.
oh perfect, I realize our posts won't be very helpful to those in the northern hem until next season, but those in Aus my find something helpful. They might like my carrot growing guide and more to come. Also, your sister might like to check out Women Who Farm
A HUGE welcome to steemit!
I live on about 1/4 acre of land so space management is big for me too!
We've learned a lot about how to grow a lot of food in a small space. Stay tuned, I'll probably do a post on this