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Chicagoland Permaculture at Townline Design

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Commenced:	01/05/2013
Submitted:	06/05/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Waukegan, IL, US
Climate zone:	Cold Temperate

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Chicagoland Permaculture at Townline Design

Waukegan, US

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Project: Chicagoland Permaculture at Townline Design

Posted by Daniel Brown about 11 years ago

Culinary mushroom inoculation, a bad drought, and many many markets.

We picked up our first two refridgerators to store some of our veggies for market. There was a small problem with fruit flies, but we've addressed it. I've had to keep our pond fed with well water to keep it from drying up again. A new radial tower sprinkler is helping us stay on top of watering. The beans got to be a bit too heavy for some of the corn in our three sisters beds, so we'll use less next time. We're currently harvesting tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, green beans, zucchini, crookneck squash, green peppers, and cucumbers. I set up a stand at two markets on Fridays, and a third on Saturday. Only one seems to be very promising at the moment. We have fall crop seeds that are ready to be planted, and our cardboard/woodchip mulching is moving right along. The wood for the hugelkultur blueberry mound is finally buried, so we have a place to transplant our blueberry bushes to now.

Aside from that, I got our website up and running, and someone is designing a logo for us as we speak. The business will be named Townline Organic Farm. Cards and a banner will follow as soon as the logo is finished.

Much of my time this month has been devoted to drilling ash logs and plugging them up with mycellium spawn of Blue Oyster, Lion's mane, and Shitake mushrooms. Hopefully we can expand to sell delicious and medicinal fungus in the spring.

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