Harvest from Last Week

Hello 🙋🏼

This was our beautiful harvest from last week that went to Blair and Garst💚

Been a busy busy semester 

This Week’s Goodies

Good morning everyone,

Hope you are enjoying this beautiful fall weather! Just a quick note on this week’s equally beautiful harvest. 🌱😁🥗

Fino Verde Basil - 2lb

Purple Basil - 4 lb

Pesto Basil - 3lb

Dill - 4 lb

Marrow Stem Kale - 14 oz

Olympic Red Kale - 3 lb

Have a wonderful rest of your week! 💚

-Rachel 👩🏼‍🌾

Harvest Update

Good Thursday morning everyone!

Rachel here, and may I just say how excited I am to be back in the Grow Room!

Jennifer harvested our basil yesterday, and I wanted to share these awesome pictures and the weight totals with you guys... Extra freshness brought straight to your dining hall plate courtesy of the Green Team!

Fino Verde Basil - 3lb 1.7oz.    Purple Basil - 2lb 8.1oz.    Pesto Basil - 1lb 4.1oz

Have a wonderful day!

Rachel 💚

🍁Fall 2018 Semester🍁

Hello🙋🏼

Jennifer here

Hooray for the start of a new semester😃

and Rachel is back!

I got the system cleaned and put back together💚

Plants are growing well🌱

We got 2 varieties of basil🌱

Summer crisp lettuce, dill, and 2 varieties of kale here🥗

Butter head lettuce, more kale, chervil, radicchio, and sage growing💚

Gonna be a great semester🌱🌿🥗🌮

Hope all you wonderful people have an awesome semester as well

6th and Final Summer Harvest

Howdy🙋🏼

Just harvested a ton of basil for Blair-Shannon👨‍🍳

Over 10 lbs of it!!!💚

And a tiny bit of kale🥗

The next few days I’ll be breaking the system down for cleaning.

Getting everything ready for the fall semester😃

5th Summer Harvest

Hello🙋🏼

Kind of a late post but I harvested Tuesday and Wednesday of last week💚

I was able to send about 12 lbs of basil to Blair-Shannon!!!!

Pesto, purple, and fine verde basil...oh my

Wowzers.....that’s a bunch of basil!!!

As you can see the plants are growing very good...well...except the cilantro

With the rising temp in the grow room the cilantro started to bolt. 

With no way to control the temp or humidity in the grow room these kind of things happen😞

Even with hydroponic growing if you can’t control these things you’re limited on what you can grow and I highly recommend being able to control these very important aspects if you’re thinking about investing in this system.

Fall Planting

Hello🙋🏼

Jennifer here

🌱I got all the fall seeds planted yesterday💚

Grow my littles

Soon it will be time to break down and clean the system here at Kentwood for the fall semester!!!

Where has the summer gone?

Baby come back....lol😂

4th Summer Harvest

Hello😃 Jennifer here

The plants are growing so well in the grow room that I harvested close to 7 lbs of basil yesterday!!!!!!

HOLY BASIL!!!!!! That’s a lot of goodness right there💚

Ready for delivery to Blair-Shannon and Garst💚

3rd Summer Harvest

Hello Everyone😃

Jennifer here👩🏼‍🌾

Another great harvest today for Blair-Shannon

Over a pound of cilantro 🌮

And over 2 pounds of basil💚

💚Ready for delivery😃

Yum yum

2nd Summer Harvest

Howdy👩🏼‍🌾 Jennifer here

Today was harvest day for Blair-Shannon and it smells wonderful in the grow room 🌮

Wanted to share some pictures of the harvest💚

From top to bottom: tray of cilantro-which makes me want some homemade salsa😉

1 tray of purple basil, 2 trays of fine verde basil, and a tray of pesto basil

Tray of cilantro on the left and a tray of purple basil on the right!!!

It’s so purdy😂

2 trays of fine verde basil on the left and a tray of pesto basil on the left💚

All packed up and ready for delivery!!

Over 3 lbs of basil and 1 lb of cilantro😃🥗🌮

Now that’s a good harvest for growing half the plants we normally do💚

Until next time 🙋🏼

Summer Update

Hello🙋🏼 Jennifer here

Just wanted to give an update on the grow-room

Everything is growing really well and looks like Monday will be a harvest day😃

I’ll be taking a couple different basil varieties and some cilantro to Blair-Shannon 💚🥗

I also got some new baby plants in the towers here at Kentwood🌱

💚Love my job👩🏼‍🌾

Hope y’all have a wonderful weekend

☀️First Summer Harvest☀️

Hello Everyone🙋🏼

Jennifer here. Today was our first harvest of the summer🥗

It smells so wonderful in the grow room💚🌱

Wanted to share some harvest pictures with y’all

Holy Basil!!!!! Now that’s a lot of goodness right there💚

I harvested over a pound of the fine verde basil...the one on the left!

Loaded up on 3 different basils and cilantro

Packed up and ready for delivery to Blair-Shannon🌱🥗🌮💚

Love my job💚👩🏼‍🌾

☀️Summer☀️

Hello All You Wonderful People🙋🏼

🌱Progress in the grow room 🌿

💚Our little baby plants are growing up🥗

It amazes me how fast plants grow in a hydroponic setting.

Being able to control the environmental conditions such as light, temperature, nutrient availability, and humidity sure make up for an easy summer of growing!

I don’t have to pull weeds out around the plants or combat pests in the 

summer elements❌☀️🐛🦗🐿🐇🌧❌ and that’s a huge plus!

Work smarter...not harder👩🏼‍🌾

🥗Before long it will be time to harvest a couple different varieties of basils and cilantro for 

Blair-Shannon🌮

GreenTeam-Jennifer

☀️Summer Time☀️

Hello All👩🏼‍🌾

Jennifer here. Just an update on the growroom. The summer plant babies are in the towers...I repeat the summer plant babies are in the towers🌱🥗💚 Grow little ones grow! 

☀️Summer Break☀️

Hello,

Jennifer here. Summer is finally here! Rachel will be away from the grow room during the summer break for an internship in Kansas.( Congrats Rach😃) I’ll be here maintaining the system and doing the harvest with some help from Nicole and Chef Q. I’m currently breaking down the system and doing some cleaning before I plant basil and cilantro for Blair-Shannon dining hall🌱💚🥗 It’s so empty in here and can’t wait to get the plant babies in the towers! 

HARVEST DAY!

Good afternoon everyone,

Happy Monday! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day...and enjoying this beautiful weather!

Personally, I am having a great Monday because I got to harvest this morning!! My hands (and the Kentwood kitchen) smell like herbs, and it’s awesome! I am very proud of our totals this time around, and I wanted to share them with you. 🌱

Basil ... 4.25 pounds

Cilantro ... 4.13 pounds

Dill ... 2.25 pounds

Parsley ... 2.15 pounds 

Chervil ... 2.3 pounds

Shisho ... 0.5 pounds

That’s a total of 15.5 pounds of produce delivered to dining halls and the PSU today!!!

Just to give an idea of how much that really is, if you were to put that in your cart at the grocery store it would cost you around $500!

WOW. 

 
                                     

Add that to the fact that they’re 10 times fresher and prettier than what you can buy at a store, and it’s absolutely incredible. 

Have a wonderful week!

Rachel 👩🏼‍🌾

Out & About On Campus

Hey y’all!

If you were walking to class through Bearfest Village yesterday, I hope you stopped to check out the Sustainability Showcase put on by the College of Agriclture! The Green Team wanted to be a part of this event, so we had one of our grow towers on display for students to check out. There was a lot of interest, and we are excited about pushing for ever-increasing sustainability on our campus. 

Go bears! 🐻 

There are events continuing this week for the Public Affairs Conference, so we encourage you to attend some of the sessions and learn something new about being sustainable!

-the Green Team 🌱

Spring Break

Hello Everyone,


    Jennifer here. Just wanted you folks to know the grow room has been doing great over the break. Love coming to work when this is my "office"! There will be some yummy produce ready to go to the dining halls when school is back in session. Enjoy your down time😉🌱☀️

Fri-Yay is Harvest Day!

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are enjoying this spring weather as much as I am! Today I had the privilege of delivering the produce from the first major harvest of the semester, and it was a beautiful thing to see 💚 🌱

The oils from all of the herbs have my hands smelling like dill, basil, cilantro, & happiness. 😃

Our produce totals for this week were the following:

Kale (.5 pounds)

Dill (.85 pounds)

Basil (.5 pounds)

Cilantro (.5 pounds)

Chervil (.5 pounds)

Parsley (.25 pounds)

The produce was harvested this afternoon, and delivered within 30 minutes to both the Blair-Shannon and Garst dining halls... Talk about fresh!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone,

Rachel 👩🏼‍🌾

The Plants Are Coming, the Plants Are Coming!!

Hello everyone!

It's hard to believe that the semester here at Missouri State is almost halfway done... Anyone else ready for spring break though? 🙋🏼 I've had the privilege of being in 75 degree weather surrounded by new life every day here in the growing room. 🌱☀️ Sounds like spring doesn't it?

Well, have I got exciting news for you! Coming soon to a dining hall near you,
🌷 SPRING! 🌼

(The closest we can get to it with this crazy Missouri weather anyway...) 

Jennifer and I have been prepping for weeks, and are finally ready to move some of these beautiful babies to new homes.

 

 We're so excited to show you what we've been up to! Expect to see lettuce, kales, basils, and a variety of other green goodness popping up in the dining halls in the coming weeks. And as always, enjoy your campus-grown herbs and greens!

Have a fantastic day!

Rachel 👩🏼‍🌾

New Team Member

Hello everyone,

Jennifer Rice here. I'm new to the Green Team working with the hydroponic zip grow towers on campus. I'm currently a senior at M.S.U. I'm working on dual degrees at moment - a Bachelors Degree in Envionmental Plant Science with a Horticulture emphasis and Natural Resources. I've had some experience in the hydroponic field, and love to grow plants hydroponically. I hope to help Rachel grow delicious locally grown food for all you lovely folks. Cheers to a great semester!

A New Semester!

Welcome back, fellow bears! 🐻

Hopefully everyone is staying warm - it's days like today that I'm especially thankful for my job. Rachel here, with a quick update from the Green Team! 🌱

Even though it's 5 degrees outside, the Grow Room is coming alive again. At a balmy 73 degrees, our babies are loving life! Sad to see these towers empty, but we are excited for what's to come, and planning for another successful semester. 

Also, I am happy to announce that we will have a new member joining our team, so stay tuned for an intro! 

Until next time,

Rachel 👩🏼‍🌾