My son started expounding on the virtues of organic a while back, I responded with “what do you think we've been growing for years?”
Am adding s small greenhouse “6 x 10” this summer so we can do a better job of growing from seed and wintering over.
Have a wonderful group of Master Gardeners as a support group. Most state Agricultural schools have a program/degree for the general public, even Alaska has a program. What I don't know someone in the group has experience with or knows how to find out the answer. We also have direct links to Purdue in Indiana.
Am adding s small greenhouse “6 x 10” this summer so we can do a better job of growing from seed and wintering over.<<<
If possible, build at least a 10 x 10’ greenhouse, for the small ones will change temperatures too fast and are almost impossible to keep in the range you want.
For me, they didn’t make them big enough, I prefer a leanto type attached to the house, so both change heat and cool air and with barrels of water or other passive solar heating in the greenhouse.
I have worked with both styles over the years and love the attached ones.
Your grandmother was a wise woman, making money is possible even today, as there is often ads in the free cycle group for “come and get it today, as we are moving”, and some of the things exchanged are interesting.
When we moved up here, we started going to the one near the casino area of the county, once we found 27 sheets of plywood, stacked high, someone had torn down a construction building or fence and hauled it to the dump.
The Master Gardners are a wonderful source of information, it takes a lot of learning to earn the title.
LOL, I laugh at the greenies, and their Organic this and that, for it was around long before they found it.