Hey cool kids club! Thought it might be cool to introduce ourselves and share where we are at with our businesses and what we need help with! My name is Heather! My husband (chance) and I live in eastern Colorado with our 3 kids. We own a landscaping business which is where my love for plants really took off. I took the CSU master gardener course in 2017 to learn more about plant diseases, pest, etc. so I could better help our employees understand how to plant trees properly, diagnose plant problems and so forth. We moved out to the boonies in 2020 and started our journey of becoming more self sufficient. I started a garden and learned a lot my first year through failures. By 2021 I had established a pretty good sized garden and was giving away produce by the boxes. In 2022 we bought our first home and moved even further East. I actually dug up all my strawberries, grapes, blueberries etc and brought them here with us. However 2022 wasn’t actually a great year. Because we had moved further east and were basically in the plains now with 0 wind block, my garden struggled. It was a whole new growing climate. I dove deep into learning about microclimates and how I could create my own little microclimate where plants would actually grow. I studied up on companion planting and how it directly correlates with microclimates. Like using borage, carrots, tomatoes and marigolds together! The borage keeps tomato horn worms away, marigolds attract beneficial insects, tomato shades the carrots and keeps the carrot white flies away. Before I knew it my garden was once again flourishing and I was giving away produce. I would actually save all the big Sam’s club boxes and load them up and make them look pretty 😂 So one night I’m loading up this produce box for my son’s teacher and I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if I could sell these pretty boxes? But not just produce oh no… I would include bread, canned goods etc. only problem was I had never baked or canned anything other than pickles. lol

used a template and was able to whip this up in about 10-15 minutes. Using templates will help y'all create images to post on local social media pages and here's an example for y'all to look at.

I’d love to hear what’s y’all’s favorite so far

Here’s the new self serve farm stand we built!

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