Funny you should ask....(your 50 cents is in the mail) Because of needing surgery in April, I had decided to put off the reopening of my herb business for another year. Forty-pound bags of compost and 10-pound lifting restriction for more than a month, and all that. Keeping the floors swept has been a hassle.
Lo and behold, I scored four flats of assorted herbs at the local "flower auction" on Friday. And each little 2-inch pot turned out to be a triple plug set, so each flat yields 80-100 plants. This weekend I drove 300+ miles to a sustainability conference _and_ have already potted up two of the flats into 4-inch pots. Babied the knee all weekend and the healing from the surgery is just about complete, and today I'm walking very well thank you! I guess what it really needed was 8 straight hours of micro-movements! Who knew? I'm calling Ag & Markets next week to renew my nursery license, stopping at the county courthouse on the way home from the dentist on Friday to get DBAs for Connections Community Farm, Towpath Packgoats, and Eagle Harbor Herbs. An apprentice is supposed to arrive on Saturday and I'm all set for her to start drilling logs and setting mushroom plugs for the agro-forestry mushroom test. And I have an appointment with Soil & Water to start work on a grant proposal to create a chemical-free water purification demonstration site to treat Erie Canal water with bacteria and fish and plants through a series of ponds so that it's clean enough to use for irrigation of certified-organic fields. Or to drink. Will be writing a book about this project so that other farms around the world can replicate our system. Oh, the ponds are also being designed to step down in elevation so that the water flow from each one can generate electricity. I could cut everything down and plow it with a diesel tractor (so that it'll run on bio-diesel when Peak Oil hits), and grow sweet corn at $4 per dozen. Or I can grow goldenseal and ginseng and mushrooms in the woods with hand tools, harvest firewood from those woods with hand tools, and grow medicinal and culinary herbs in patches along a scenic trail through the meadow (yup, with hand tools), each little 10x10 patch yielding an $800-$1000 annual harvest (and most of the herbs perennial). Can't afford to retire, so I'm putting together a business I can operate when I'm too old to go away to a job. Ten years will have it nicely started. Dori Green ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. DOCUMENTATION & TRAINING WEST 07: THE USER EXPERIENCE April 18-21, 2007 ~ Vancouver BC ~ Marriott Pinnacle ~ free city tour 40+ sessions * free workshops * free iPod offer * www.doctrain.com _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
