These insects work all day and all night to keep the pests from destroying your food. While we may only have a handful of human workers here at RhibaFarms, we have thousands of insect ones. The Praying Mantis is one of our hardest workers in the greenhouse and we recently welcomed in hundreds of new inspect employees.

If you would like to know more about our beneficial insects send us an email or check out http://www.beneficialinsects101.com/

Our chickens are living out at RhibaFarms south near Florence.  When they get a little bigger they will move into their new chicken tractor and will serve a third purpose of conditioning the soil in the fields at RhibaFarms south.  These 50 chickens are merely chicks now but in about 5 months we will have eggs available.

During their time here, they learned about our future aquaponics plans, a bit of RhibaFarms history and general day to day operations from Mark.  Roger, our water expert spoke to them about water, more particularly about how city water can be improved for growing.  He showed them what 500 PPM of total dissolved solids (tap water) looks like after being separated by a water flocculator.  Roger also went over some of the concepts of structured water.  Office and internet operations were briefly discussed by Suzi and Brian.  We took the class outside behind the greenhouse to see our soon to be running aquaponics tanks and to our experimental raised beds that contain peppers and lettuce.  While inside the greenhouse Harold went over our different hydroponics systems and Mark explained some of the basic features of our greenhouse.

We hope the class got some useful information, we know we had a ton of fun.  If you have a class or group that is interested in touring RhibaFarms, let us know at info@rhibafarms.com.  We can do tours for classes from kindergarten through college.

Thanks to Rebekah and her class for coming out.  You can find out more about the many agricultural programs they offer at Prescott College at www.prescott.edu

JaimeeRose – Localove: the happiest $1 in town.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/news/articles/2009/10/09/20091009biz-abg-smallbiz1010.html

Kim Brown, a local health food advocate and mother, invited us into her home to introduce her and her friends to our living foods.  It was great to meet so many health conscious folks and to talk about good foods.

  Kim has found a way to revese Type 1 Diabetes in her daughter Kylie.  Quoted from her blog “We have found that grain and dairy eliminated has helped reverse the signs of Type 1 Diabetes in youngest daughter Kylie.  Through testing we found that her body needed those foods eliminated in order to rest her broken pancreas and start a regeneration process.  It took 6 months.  A total shock because we were expecting a lifetime to fight the disease.”  Check out her blog post about RhibaFarms here. Also check out the rest of the blog at http://www.livingwithouttype1.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the write up and keep up the amazing work Kim!

Here you can see one of our RhibaFarms pest control employees inspecting the boxes of wheatgrass.

Today is Earth Day, and we here at RhibaFarms would like to pass on some very helpful links for being environmentally conscious. Of course eating locally grown food has less of a carbon foot print, bypassing the need to have hundreds of trucks, trains and planes delivering food from one end of the planet to the other. Make sure to support your local growers by shopping at Farmer’s Markets when you can.

Below are some links for great Earth Day tips and remember you should follow these tips everyday of the year and not just on Earth Day.

Water conservation
Green Travel Tips
7 ways to a greener computer
What to do this Earth Day
10 Earth Day Tips

and just for fun this from The Onion

Happy Earth Day from RhibaFarms