Hidden Lotus Herbs is getting ready to move to our new #farm site and really ramp up our operations!
For some backstory,
I was the recipient of a fund from @coop to start a worker-owned #cooperative and decided to make it an herbal apothecary!
We've been operational for around six months and are now starting our regenerative agroecological farm and increasing the capacity of our free clinic.
However, the #renewableenergy systems we're building are more expensive than we budgeted for, and we could use some help getting the farm and clinic going financially.
We're really needing help from our community to make all this cool stuff happen!
If you can spare some $, please consider supporting our transition and future. If you can't, please share far and wide!
“This summer, the waffle garden brimmed with corn, squash, amaranth, chilies, several varieties of peas, carrots, tomatoes, and herbs, which was fed entirely by rainwater captured in cisterns and the waffle garden’s sunken beds. This catchment system has enabled Sandoval to reduce her dependence on the acequia, the centuries-old irrigation canals that are at risk of running dry.”
I had "Will crabs thrive here?" in my list of things i wonder about, no more. This one seemed busy shuffling through the silt and feeding on something. Hope there's more than one and they stay.
They are harvested from volunteer plants that pop up in the weeds growing in our pig pasture plantings. We carefully seed our pig's slops with our favorite rustic local varieties, some of which have been developed here on our farm.
Every week we harvest pots and pots from seed that our pigs worked into the soil. How awesome is that?
One of the most reliable food source in zone 8b with cold wet winter and hot dry summer is #daikon. I let some of my daikons flower, then get a ton of seed pods from them. Daikon seed pods are edible just like reddish seed pods. They are spicy like mustard when eaten raw. The spiciness goes away after cooking. But daikon is 10x more prolific than reddish. #permaculture#naturalfarming