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Posted by Truck on February 21, 2002 at 19:42:19 from (205.188.198.26):
I saw the great advice you guys gave just a few posts down so I thought I'd pick your brains. I am involved with a ministry that is in the startup stages of a farm / boarding school for orphans and troubled teens. Eventually they want to have something set up like Freedom Village or Boys town, but obviously we are starting MUCH smaller.
We've got a 110 acre former dairy farm with some excellent barns, but we aren't going to do dairy. Last year they tried a little sweet corn, farm stand type veggie crops, and right now they are sugaring off a neighbors nice stand of maples. We have a 21 by 48 plastic hoop style greenhouse available, haying equipment, a 454, 674, M, and an old JD B. Just got a spreader to deal with the beefer's poop pile, and the fields have been plowed up last fall.(I'm not entirely sure what the plan was on that) Anyhow, can anyone suggest some crops that might be a good thing for us? We have heard some good stuff on hydroponically grown veggies, and also that some herbs are real high dollar. The place is located in the helderberg hills of Upstate NY.
(ALong with growing crops we hope to grow a crop or two of young people raised in good old fashioned CHristian and Farm values.CHances are we will have a carpentry shop , and a mechanics shop, along with the usual academic stuff. Pretty tall order to fill but somebody's gotta try. Better to raise good young folk than to fix the adults who weren't raised right!)
Feel free to E mail suggestions if they're lengthy!
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