Research

Acknowledgements

I owe the successful start of my farming journey to three organizations:

Sharing Our Roots, where I am growing my botanicals. They have provided endless support and have been instrumental in my success;

Land Stewardship Project for their Farm Beginnings program that gave me the tools and resources I needed when planning out my first farming operation;

And SARE, which funded my research project during my first and second years farming.

Please check out and support these wonderful organizations!

Scaling Up Organic Botanical Production in the Upper Midwest

For my research project, I tested ways to increase harvest yields and reduce dry time for various botanicals. For the project, I:

  • tested the mini Terrateck Babyleaf Harvester on various botanicals

  • made improvements to a forced-air dryer, expanding upon a SARE grant previously obtained by Sharing Our Roots

  • collected fresh yield and dry down data

  • tested the eTOH Pro to turn farm waste into absolute extracts

My progress report can be found here.