Firstly discovered of the good news: our old farm share provider, Nichols Farm of Mantego, IL, was in town for the Garfield Park conservatory's garden fair on Saturday. I had just recently emailed them and another farm, Angelic Organics, to ask if there was any extra seedlings that we could buy from them to make up for what the rats ate. Serendipity! Todd Nichols invited me to see them at the conservatory, where they'd be selling some of their seedlings. He offered me a tremendously generous price, and all in all I was able to buy over 200 plants to help us catch up!
Secondly discovered -- there is an organic tomato grower down in Georgia that grew hundreds more seedlings than they will be able to plant this year. My mom found out about it from a neighbor who works at that garden. She's driving up in a week or two to spend time with her granddaughter (well, also with us, but Josie's the main attraction), and is offering to bring us several hundred of these tomato seedlings. Looks like the answer to plan-wrecking rats is the generosity and love that can come from people all around you!
Finally discovered was someone who has an engine that works as a replacement to the broken one on our tiller. All it took was a little bit of patience and helpful knowledge from the internet, and I got this wonderful machine back and running again!
I'll be out to finish the second and maybe the third of the four sections of our plot on Tuesday!!! Hooray!
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