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Wow, I love it. Does Little sis get to nick a lettuce or two?
We have a 21year old with a goodly number of glasshouses here. He started when he was 16 with an unused plastic house on his parents property. He sowed, nurtured and harvested all himself, and borrowed the family van to sell in the area. And grew and grew, and expanded and expanded. He employed both his parents by the time he was short of his 18th birthday. And moved into glass. He does hydroponics as well.
Isn't that fantastic, kids are so marvelous. We live in a produce area, Pukekohe/Ramarama/Aririmu too. These places are very intensely farmed. I can only guess at the work that goes into the place you have shown us Billy.
Lorraine has canning, (we call it bottling) in her profile interests. I did that for many years, but not now when I have the biggest kitchen in christiandom. I started the season with pick your own tomatoes, and moved on to the beetroot. Fruits, jams, jellies, and suchlike followed. By which time the grapefruit and lemons, poor mans oranges were at their peak for marmalade, thick, chunky, jellies with 3 wisps of rind curling gently, shining through the clarity. Happy days. Sigh.