Grain Burner

What is the grain burner?

We use rye as a rotation crop for the vegetables. We harvest the rye, store it and then use it to fuel the grain burner that heats the green house for the greens and in the late winter the transplants. We also use one in Canard for the squash storage building. It needs to be kept warm until the squash is gone in February or March. Then it gets moved over to the greenhouse in Canard to heat it for transplants.

We sometimes use corn. Last year I purchased some from a farmer friend because our rye wasn't the best. This year hopefully it will be drier and cleaner and therefore burn better.

That is it. I don't yet have a good number on the value of the bags of greens that you get this time of year - Josh and I haven't done the hard pencil pushing yet. It is hard because the greens take so long to grow so in one week in the share a small bag has taken 4-5 weeks of heat. The greens at this point are more like a gift of green goodness versus an income stream :) But green goodness is worth it.