Shill Farms

08/13/2023

Quality assurance on our spicy garlic scape spice, Gone Rogue hotsauce, and fritanga sauce from our carrots, peppers, and onions in taco form. You could be eating this if you come out to the market tomorrow!

08/13/2023

I should maybe be posting this in but our first lemon for scale on this monster zucchini. We're prepping for hot sauce and spice rubs for the market tomorrow. We'll have squash, garlic, spices, hotsauce, and of course the freshest peps this side of the Shenandoah. Come on out!

08/11/2023

I fixed it! TIL in VA you can sell processed foods with a pH of 4.6 and below and dried spices from your house without USDA certification. So... we will now be adding our hot sauce and spice blends to the menu at the Shill Farms Market on Sunday!!!

08/09/2023

Nerding out rn with this Thai chili

08/06/2023

We're going all out at the market tomorrow. Need to harvest a ton!!! Whatever is left will become hotsauce and pepper lasagna!!! 🌶 🌶 🫑 🌶 🫑 🌶 🫑

08/05/2023

Oh my squash! Pickle for scale.

07/29/2023

Peppers, anyone? We'll be out front at the ShillFarms Market tomorrow (Sunday) from 11-3pm ET!! We might even break out the Paper Lanterns (my favorite pepper) and some garlic that just finished curing!

07/26/2023

Assessing the damage from the freak hail storm. Before and after...

07/25/2023

So, I *might* have had too much wine celebrating the market success yesterday and "accidentally" "interplanted" a BUNCH of seeds in plot1.

07/23/2023

We had 4 customers! Made some new friends and got to see some friends we haven't seen in a long time!! Beautiful day sitting and reading my book :)

07/23/2023

07/17/2023

A little Sunday evening update on the farm 🌶🌶🫑🫑

07/16/2023

😍😍😍 Trees!!! 😍😍😍

07/16/2023

3 sisters interplanting method! Corn, peas, and squash!

07/16/2023

Volunteer tomatoes are first ripe of all!!

07/08/2023

How you all bean?

07/07/2023

Well, I'm plum surprised!

07/06/2023

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07/05/2023

a bit behind on videos, here is May 20th with the pepper houses up and running.

May 20, 2023 - Both of our hoop houses now filled with pepper plants. We moved out roughly 75 plants from our grow room and got them all placed into the dut...

06/27/2023

What do peppers, basil, marigold, nasturtium, and onions have to do with each other? They are all in our re-vamped kitchen scrap garden... along with our new bee friend! He is loving the onion flower! We also got little baby shrimps for the fountain!

06/26/2023

We harvested the garlic today and bundled them up to begin the 3 week curing period. We got about 111 bulbs here, and a few more for using right away. Storing them down in the basement where it's nice and cool. 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄

06/21/2023

Keeping up with plant maintenance so that we can control pests and maximize on produce! 🤩🤩🤩

06/05/2023

Sneak peak of a few tasks we got done today, more in the video to come. Cleaned up and tilled plot 1 bed 1 and 3, completed the fence around plot 1, put the support posts in hoop 1 and 2 and then support ropes in hoop 1. Also tilled plot 2 and got some plants going on the patio!!! Busy sunday!!!

06/03/2023

Filmed on May 5th - Getting the Hoop Houses Prepared for Peppers!

Filmed on May 5, 2023 - Completed the plumbing on the dutch buckets in both Hoop House 1 and 2, got them filed with 1/3rd perlite, 1/3rd vermiculite, 1/3rd p...

06/02/2023

Filmed on May 5th - Update on the grow room before we get the plants moved out to the hoop houses in the coming weeks! Tons of peppers on the plants already!

05/26/2023

May 25 - Nightly routine

05/20/2023

The growing season is upon us! We spent most of the night getting plants moved out and everything is ready to go. There is still a lot to do to get the hoop houses fully automated but we are off to the races!

04/14/2023

Flood tray 5 is setup for the larger plants to keep growing and give the others some space. We are hopeful all of these will be out in their buckets within 3 weeks. Max in hoop 1 today was 105 and low was 52, I think we are ready!

04/12/2023

It's Perfect Day! The cherry blossoms are in full bloom and they are beautiful!! Usually only lasts a day or two and then a wind storm will turn it to Pink Snow Day! We'll try to get video of PSD!!

03/31/2023

We have our first peppers of the 2023! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

03/20/2023

77 Pepper Seedlings and Counting!

March 19, 2023 - We moved more of the pepper seedlings from the 1020 trays to the flood and drain tables in the Grodan rockwool blocks. We still have more t...

03/06/2023

Getting hoop house # 1 all cleaned up and ready for the year!

March 5, 2023 - Updates from the weekends work here in Hoop 1 & 2 along with the updates over the week in the grow room. Tons of progress happening and all ...

02/27/2023

Updates on the work in the grow room as we are working on lighting and getting our seedlings taken care of for the year. I've added some lights along with some experiments with LEDs. Finally we got the power connected to hoop house 2 and all the receptacles connected. Jill is trying her hand as making her own vinegar and infused oils that we can use in our pepper sauce and cookings. More updates on those to come.

Feb 26 - Updates on the work in the grow room as we are working on lighting and getting our seedlings taken care of for the year. I've added some lights alo...

02/26/2023

Nearing the end of February and we have our peppers for the year seeded. We got the flood trays setup in the grow room and started moving some of our early pepper starts to them already.

Feb 19 & 23, 2023 - Quick update on the grow room as we add the floor trays and move over some of the peppers into the Grodan Hugo blocks. Also a brief upda...

02/15/2023

We built a grow room, whaaaaat! 2023 is in full swing!

Filmed on Jan 28, 2023 - Introduction to the grow room build and brief update to Hoop House 2 blower fan and plot 1 garlic. We built a grow room in the loft ...

01/30/2023

Shill Farms + 2023 = 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Pour a glass and sit down with us as we reflect on the 2022 growing season, then look to the future and what the 2023 growing priorities will be as we get under way.

2022, what a year. We grew so much produce that we barely knew what to do with it all! In this video we give a lookback on the year and then a look at what...

01/23/2023

Nov 6, 2022 - Planted garlic for overwintering and some hoop house updates on NFT lettuce and dutch bucket peppers!

Nov 6 - Planting our garlic for overwintering and a few end of year updates on the hoop houses. Burnt down burn pile the weekend before and after a week, th...

12/21/2022

Jarring up our latest creations!! Hot sauce rainbow!!

12/20/2022

Calling it for the winter! Last harvest was a beauty!!!

11/28/2022

How long through winter can we make it?! We've been ripening under the grow lights in the basement after harvesting. Going to make all levels of pepper sauce and dried seasoning mixes!!