Orders

A day spent organizing orders from clients and also for working on creating a catalog for the nursery. Although the nursery already has a large amount of material available at the existing location, cataloging, pricing and inventorying it takes time. In the meantime, weeds continue to grow.....

Spread sheets

Not much to write about today... a day focusing on the creation of a spreadsheet to catalogue the material produced by our three operations....

Cross-eyed (feeling like Clarence the Lion) after a day of peering at a computer screen...while the sun shines brilliantly outside...

Chicken Coop

Saturday.... a day when most people enjoy the leisure of the weekend. Not for me.. too much to be done! I travelled to the nursery, arriving at approximately 7:00 a.m.,in time to witness an amazing sunrise. A beautiful pale yellow orb piercing the white fog, and highlighting the soft blue mountains in the distance, signalled the beginning of a productive, fulfilling day.

Our workers- Juana, Pablo and Victoria arrived shortly thereafter, in a pickup loaded with pipe and had tools. The work on erecting the chain link fence around the previously built chicken coop will begin.....

The coop will house heritage chickens, as a part of the organic farm/ education process for visitors to the operation. Although the work was not difficult, the erection of a 8 foot wire mesh fence, which required the burying of said fence about 12 inches into the soil to discourage raccoons and coyotes (hopefully) required some Herculean effort.

Work progressed smoothly however, and when I left (I felt I was more of a hindrance than a help) to focus on more productive efforts (for me) involving spreadsheet fabrication, the worker bees saw me off with arousing cheer. Ah well, I like to think that the cheer was due to my effort of assistance, not that they were glad to see me depart....

Signing on.......

Although this new project has been consuming my time here for the last month, the need to begin the documentation process has become more pressing. As more work takes place- both on the ground and behind the scenes- it becomes apparent that the documentation is necessary before it is lost altogether.

Basically, the position that has me all excited is a "once in a life-time" opportunity; the creation (from the basic infrastructure) to (one day), the completion of a 20 acre native plant nursery, and an accompanying large organic farm.

Leaving my position in the Bay Area to move further north (to the Pacific Northwest) was a "no-brainer" to me, as much as I did (emphasis on "did") enjoy life down there. Living in the Pacific Northwest for three years however, has filled me with a love for the the state, and when this opportunity arose, it was as though a summons was being issued..."go North young man.."

I digress however.... this opportunity consists of creating a nursery (yes, even during these tough economic times) from an old "abandoned" tree nursery. One may think that the basic infastructure could be utilized, but an entirely different method of nursery growing systems will take place.

And from there..... welcome to the blog....