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Parmenter Mothership Greenhouse!!!

1/27/2018

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The Mothership
The Mothership Greenhouse!

So close, so close and yet so far.  

When I last left you I was a sad little puppy when it came to progress on The Mothership.  As if!  The Dream Team comes in great waves, they all converge and knock out more than I could ever imagine and then they all go away.  It's insane.  Cord says we have about 10 days left on it but he can't do all 10 days in a row.  
I am a patient person.  I am tapping in deep to my resources to stay patient.  It's been 3.5 years. Can't have it till I can have it.  Can't have 70' of tropical food forest until I can have 70' of tropical food forest.  Without ever using any fuel.  I know this.  I don't wring my hands.  I wait.  And use my magical powers to make The Dream Team converge.  Here.  At the same time.  
Over the holidays they worked the entire time.  I cooked and painted and cooked and painted and cooked.   To Cord, Max, Beau and Wulfgar - you guys are the best.  Thank you for your continuous work on this project and for making my dreams come true.

I AM IN MY SEED ROOM!!!!

This is the best part.  Over the holidays - the Seed Room was finished.  I put down flooring and began moving in immediately.  7 car-loads later (SUV) the piles and piles of seed in all of it's glory - was inside the room - breathing in and out. 

I go to work in my Seed Room - like people do.  Sometimes I carry a basket with my various items like Little Red Riding Hood and sing a song on the path through the trees as I walk along.  I sip tea and clean seed or play John Denver and dance around the room while making labels.  I am slowly putting my bulk seed into jars on the shelves on the wall.  It is the most beautiful room I have ever seen.  Getting to actually see my seed is something.  I have a long way to go and the work is joy.

My cup runneth over.

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Table and shelves are 16' long.
More shelves coming.  Bookcases and tables and blinds and work stations are all coming.  I'm filling seed orders everyday.  Every bag or box you see is drying seed and will be condensed down to a jar.  It is very satisfying work right now. A fourth long shelf will be installed at the top of the wall soon.  The room is about 10' wide by 24' long and is off the north wall of The Mothership Greenhouse.   There is a tile covered block wall on the other side and a concrete pad to keep it cool and steady.  It is solid as a rock and so quiet and lovely.  More pics to come as I get the room operational.  What a thrill.
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Inside a random bag. Showy Milkweed.
8 Comments
Sue Hollingshead
1/27/2018 10:08:57 am

It is looking good! Thanks for the update. I was just thinking about your greenhouse the other day.

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Jane Karel
1/30/2018 05:33:26 pm

Beautiful !! I'm so jealous. I'm still trying to figure out my little bitty greenhouse.

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Stevenson Maranga link
2/6/2018 11:55:05 pm

Thanks for the inspiration through your good work for the greenhouses! At our orphanage we are trying to raise them for ourselves sufficiency but we lack skill and finances. Hope you shall be of great help!
Stevenson.
Kenya

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Ann
2/14/2018 11:23:24 am

I often think of what you are doing on your mountain, even though we have never met. You are such a joy to read and so inspiring to others! Thank you for sharing. I love seeds like i love to breathe! They never cease to amaze me. I hope to someday be like you, “the colorado mountain lady” greenhouse, seeds, and all! (And a mountain wouldnt be half bad either;) i wish you the happiest of days!!

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Penn Parmenter link
2/18/2018 08:03:53 am

Ann - so nice to meet you! When it is finally done - we will have a big party - an Open House and invite the world. Stay tuned - my guess is this fall we will be ready to show it off. Maybe you can come for that. Until then - the mountains are what dreams are made of - my wish for you is to spend as much time in them as you can. Go forth and sow!

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Andrea link
3/17/2018 08:05:07 pm

A stunning and practical workspace. Love this as the functional north wall of a greenhouse. Congrats. Hoping to make it to an open house...not so very far to there from Guffey....

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papernow.org link
6/10/2019 01:34:18 am

I don't know how to feel like to have your own greenhouse, but I know that you are happy with what you have. You got to start from a scratch since the place is quite big. But you know what, I don't worry that much because I know you can pull it off. This is your passion; you put to much effort on your greenhouse and seed room and I am pretty sure that you are going to come up with something great as soon as possible!

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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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