ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —The winds of change are blowing at Hoot & Harvest.
Anne Gloeckner has a new investment. It’s a block mold for making individual soil cubes to grow seeds.
“I was hand pressing four at a time, and this tray does 72,” said Gloeckner.
Gloeckner is dropping spinach seeds into each cube.
Anne Gloeckner has a new investment. It’s a block mold for making individual soil cubes to grow seeds.
“I was hand pressing four at a time, and this tray does 72,” said Gloeckner.
Gloeckner is dropping spinach seeds into each cube.
It will take several weeks before thet are ready to be planted.
It’s their second year working the land —and by land we mean their front yard, as well as their neighbor’s yard.
That’s where Gloeckner’s partner Joe Morris is headed to cut some baby bok choy.
“It builds a sense of community and showing that anybody can do this, even on a small plot of land, you can build a garden like this and feed your family,” said Morris.
And all the neighbors want for the use of their yard as a farm — is a cut of the produce.
One of the places you can get this baby bok choy and Hoot and Harvest’s other produce is the Lealman Farmers Market.
The only hungry mouths they feed on their farm besides the neighbors are their egg-laying hens.
The Lealman Market is on the fourth Sunday of every month from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Lealman Exchange.