Now and Future Plans

Our plans are to build a horticultural operation, based on three main green houses and perennial gardens. This is based on our current potential property. We will build two 20x40x20 tunnels (tube houses) and one 20x60x20 tunnel that will create a L shaped green house complex. This complex will also have a fence around it, allowing our chickens to be used to keep the complex clean. In the green houses we will grow market crops specifically for target markets. We are currently working with individual organizations to determine what they are seeking and this will determine what we grow. All the operations will be certified organic. We will be installing a water treatment plant that includes filtering systems designed by myself. It will include the OWR by Nordic Living Water. It will also include a gray water system that will provide continuous water to the green houses through a passive filtering system and drip and mist system.

We will build an electronic monitoring system based in open source technology and utilizing hand held computer for local data capture and wireless network for instant transfer of captured data of both active and passive monitoring systems. This will all be held in a database that will be used to analyze the data and then provided to our customers in near real time, so that they will have up to date information on the health and progress of their crops. This will also allow us to provide data for educational purposes, and to educational institutions, specifically our educational partners, including Cornell University and Cornell's Cooperative Extension. W are currently working with Cornell's Cooperative Extension to put together the financial plan needed to begin operations.

We will also feature extensive perennial gardens with many herbs and other plants for seasoning and medicinal purposes. The gardens will also be ornamental and based in permacultural practices, providing for aesthetic values. We will also be featuring local connections to local educational institutions to provide educational opportunities to elementary through high school students about organic agricultural.

We are also talking with the farmer that owns the land surrounding our property to arrange for some type of expansion of our current property either through a long term lease or through a purchase plan that will allow us to expand our operations into livestock, dairy and other operations.

We will also be considering housing in the future, to provide some type of housing provision for individuals and couples who will assist us in the operations of our organization.

We currently are in contact with several retailers, and restaurants in Rochester and Seneca Falls, NY to provide them with green house products. We will also provide products direct on the farm through a farm stand. We are also considering local farmers markets, however we have not investigated that avenue as thoroughly yet to consider it a viable outlet at this time.

More information is available about this project by contacting the principal James E. Doud at this site, through the comment system. We can not provide an email address here, as the level of spam that will be generated does not allow us to do this at this time. We are working on this, and will be putting a website up soon, that will allow people to contact us directly.

We are also interested in investment partnerships, in either finance or in knowledge, and they can contact us through the website once it is up and running. The web address will be posted here when it is completed and operating.

Eat Fresh

This article on salon goes along ways towards my idea of eating. More later

Go ask Alice
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/10/26/alice_waters/

James

Hey, yea I said there was going to be more, so here's the update...

Yea so I didn't read the book she was promoting. Do people read anymore, I mean short of blogs and such. Yea, well I did "read" the article, and she's talking about eating because that's what is important. We all live this life in high gear, 'cause that will get us ahead, or quicker into the grave, whatever. We work our entire lives to get to that point where we can slow down a little and enjoy retirement. Who the hell can retire anymore, who wants to?

But what do I care, you can do what you will, and if you die from some industrial disease hell it ain't my problem. Yea, that is the attitude you have to have to survive in this dog eat dog (I've seen that, it ain't pretty) world. A long time ago, or so it seems I was on the treadmill, shooting for fame and fortune, and ran with all the trappings of the rising star lifestyle. I did more drugs, drank more, and pissed on whoever I felt like, 'cause I was destined for something big. Then I broke down, and somewhere in there I broke. I had friends then, not anymore, I had money then, not anymore. I live in a shit hole trailer in a trailer park in a suburb of Rochester, NY. I may not even be here for long, as I can't even find a job to pay my bills, and I am not sure when they will cut my power, but I am sure it will be soon. Shit I live in this shit hole, and yet, here I am trying to buy local and eat well, and have dropped all or most all the bad habits, and nothing good has come from it, right.

Sorry I had to light up a cig for a second there, yea I still have a few bad habits, so what.

So here's the deal, I first grabbed up this story because I am a big fan of Jefferson Airplane (or Airplane as some of us call them), or more specifically Grace Slick, but that's just a teen memory thing, see. So Then I read the headline and see that this Alice woman is talking about eating local and farmers markets, and all that other stuff I try to preach about, with much less success than her. She is getting somewhere, because she is published, probably has a degree too, well whatever. Yea I could have had a degree, or two, but I was a dumb ass about that when I was shooting shit into my brain. But you should take this slick chic's advice and start with something. Start with just something, because it is the doing that matters.

Well kids that's all I got for you today, it's late for me, and I got to get these old bones to bed now 'cause I got more stuff to do tomorrow. Maybe I will get that job tomorrow and then I can stay here a while, or maybe they will shoot me down one more peg, who cares, not anyone but me.

Peace
James