A homestead, in messages.
Weekly-ish messages from the rack and the rows. Sowing results, light ratios, tomato towers that shouldn't work but do, the shelves we lost, and the small adventures that come from growing food with kids in the room. No SEO bait, no padding — just the actual notes.
First sow: five shelves, one rack, and zero idea how this goes.
Day one of Wilder Roots as an actual business. Five shelves of microgreens on a single rack, pink and white lights on a timer, and a whole lot to learn before the next rack goes up.
Read it →Why one rack and five shelves makes the math work.
A staggered five-shelf rotation lets one rack run continuous harvest. Here's how we space the sow dates so something is ready every week.
Read it →The tomato tower we built out of stakes and stubbornness.
Cheap, ugly, holding twelve plants up just fine. The trellis people would not approve. The plants do.
Read it →Microgreens, organically grown on a single rack.
What we're growing right now: five shelves of organically grown microgreens — sunflower, pea, radish, broccoli — on a staggered rotation under pink-and-white light.
Read it →The home garden — what feeds us first.
The backyard plot is the kitchen-table half of the operation. Tomatoes, peppers, herbs, beans, and whatever the season is willing to give.
Read it →More notes on the way — we write as the rack runs.