5-10 Year Plan
Palenquito Gardeners Market: Working Gardeners market with an established reputation in the community, expanding products to include gardening materials, hand made tools, compost and other gardening needs.
Market Garden: Full production Market Garden, producing increasingly diverse vegetables, using livestock for mowing and waste products to enrich soil.
U-pick: Established fruiting trees and vines and growing reputation in community for sourcing raspberries, apples, etc.
Pollinator Habitat Established with great diversity and naturalized plants
Sustainable Seed Library: Hold annual seed swap and ask seed savers and market gardeners to contribute to organization and upkeep of seed library.
Naturalized landscape demonstration garden: Find more plants that will adapt to Utah's dry climate.
Art studio
Palenquito Teaching Pavilion
Now:
This Teaching Pavilion serves multiple purposes on our small farm. The first is in keeping with traditions from our South American Heritage. The structure is based on a traditional Argentine building called a Quincho and it used for creating an Argentine Asado experience. It's two main purposes are for hosting food related events, food production and Teaching. Inside this building we'll build a traditional Argentine Barbeque station with earthen oven in a commercial grade kitchen in which to teach and create conconctions from our fruits and vegetables and teach others how to use what they produce. We'll have enough room to host events of up to 50 people and art and creative classes of 15-20 people, offering classes based on our skills and love of food, nature and art. We hope to begin this project in no more than 5 years time.
How: These Projects will require considerable resources and planning. We intend to wait until we've completed the projects mentioned in phase 1 and 2, completely paying off the debts from those two projects before seeking a new loan to complete these portions.
Wish List Projects:
Palenquito Gardeners Market: Working Gardeners market with an established reputation in the community, expanding products to include gardening materials, hand made tools, compost and other gardening needs.
Market Garden: Full production Market Garden, producing increasingly diverse vegetables, using livestock for mowing and waste products to enrich soil.
U-pick: Established fruiting trees and vines and growing reputation in community for sourcing raspberries, apples, etc.
Pollinator Habitat Established with great diversity and naturalized plants
Sustainable Seed Library: Hold annual seed swap and ask seed savers and market gardeners to contribute to organization and upkeep of seed library.
Naturalized landscape demonstration garden: Find more plants that will adapt to Utah's dry climate.
Art studio
- Small scale production greenhouse for spring vegetable starts
- Teaching and Event pavilion/ Air B&B
Palenquito Art Studio/Greenhouse Space. Building an addition behind garage, using the existing structure to produce pottery and arts on one side, with the Southern exposure being completed as a greenhouse for production of spring vegetables, perennial plants and other plants for sale.
Now:
Now:
In 5-10 years.
Palenquito Teaching Pavilion
Now:
This Teaching Pavilion serves multiple purposes on our small farm. The first is in keeping with traditions from our South American Heritage. The structure is based on a traditional Argentine building called a Quincho and it used for creating an Argentine Asado experience. It's two main purposes are for hosting food related events, food production and Teaching. Inside this building we'll build a traditional Argentine Barbeque station with earthen oven in a commercial grade kitchen in which to teach and create conconctions from our fruits and vegetables and teach others how to use what they produce. We'll have enough room to host events of up to 50 people and art and creative classes of 15-20 people, offering classes based on our skills and love of food, nature and art. We hope to begin this project in no more than 5 years time.
How: These Projects will require considerable resources and planning. We intend to wait until we've completed the projects mentioned in phase 1 and 2, completely paying off the debts from those two projects before seeking a new loan to complete these portions.
Wish List Projects:
As we learn and grow through this process we have ideas which are beyond our scope at this time. But they are worth mentioning because they could add significantly to the full potential of our venture. They include the future purchase of a the 3 acres plot to the South side. If we were to succeed in this in the next 10 years, it would allow us the potential for more intense production of vegetables as well as agri-tourism. We believe that our little niche would be worth visiting and contributing to with additional structures for larger events, including parking to accommodate weddings and larger community projects, possibly even a community farm. It would allow us the potential to access water shares in the irrigation located adjacent to us.
The other wish list item would be building an additional greenhouse attached to the residence. The purpose of this greenhouse would be to house permanent plantings of trees to be pruned for small scale, such as lemon, figs, avocado, that would be impossible in this growing climate otherwise.
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