Nathan Rish 

Major: Agriculture Operation Management 

Minor: Organic sustainable crop production

Lucky for me I have two hometowns J Cedar Park TX. and Wewahitchka Florida

I want to have regional organic vegetable market that was home grown. learn intensive inter cropping and cover cropping methods to sustain cattle, horses, chickens, hogs, bees, vegetables, herbs, high pollen plants, and heavy nectar flow flowers.  

My farm is 24 acres I plan to do this one. The bees will be scattered around among st the other 100 acres with the nectar crops. 

One proven practice of cultural pest control is trap cropping, and we decided to use Buckwheat.

Romane is in the ground!! Transplants so far are a success, however, now is the time to be careful with these fragile babies!

Our Swiss Chard babies, we will be posting their progress. Grow little guys grow!!
 

We are experimenting with carrots as a trap crop! We decided to use a white string to show a clear path to exactly where we planted our carrot seeds, to be sure we do not accidentally pull out the seedlings when weeding. When the carrots begin to sprout they look very similar to thin blades of grass. 

This week the plants have been struggling due to over watering. We believe that other groups have been accidentally watering ours and have moved them away from the other groups plants to help this issue. Also Brianne transplanted some in a larger container also away from the other groups and this helped.