Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 138: Mid-Autumn Festival

At the same time as the construction of Tianxin Mill, the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1995 quietly arrived. This year, there will be two Mid-Autumn Festivals in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, of course, people will not have two festivals, habitually, everyone will celebrate the first August 15th. Due to the leap month, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival came relatively early, just after September 11, Teacher's Day.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese reunion festival where everyone rushes home whenever possible to celebrate the festival with the whole family. Unlike other classmates who need to attend classes, or are too far away from home, of course he has to go home for the holidays.

On September 9, Tagawa returned to his hometown two days early. He brought back a lot of boxed gift mooncakes, including several samples of new mooncakes made by pastry chef Huang Faqiang of Tianxin Mill. The moon cakes he brought back were mainly used to give them away, and his relatives had to send them again, the leaders and friends in the village and town had to send them again, and they also had to send a box to the workers who worked in the planting base, and the total number of moon cakes sent out reached more than 50 boxes. These mooncakes are not divided into three or six

The ninth class is the same brand of tin gift moon cakes, with a price of more than 70 yuan.

Tian Chuan also brought home a gift for his family, that is, two new cars, an imported Jeep for his father and an Audi 100 for his sister's family. Seeing his parents, sister and brother-in-law take turns to drive a new car like children who have received new toys, Tagawa feels indescribably satisfied.

In addition, Tian Chuan also brought back the bracelet that Wu Xinran, who opened a jade jewelry store, to his mother and sister, and refused to take it off when he wore it on his hand.

The picking tourism base in Beigang is already under construction, and the construction plan designed by Tagawa has been approved by the village, and now the deep well and terrain adjustment have begun, and the construction of the scheduled tourist service center and other buildings is about to start. Tian Chuan went to take a look, and these constructions did not affect the production of the existing greenhouses and the progress of picking tourism, and there are still tour groups coming to the village every day.

The more than 80 acres of depression east of Beigang contracted by Tian Chuan are habitually called Beiwa by the villagers. This year's flood formed a waterlogged surface in Beiwa, and when Tian Chuan saw this water surface when he was looking at the construction of Beigang, he happened to remember that the saline-alkali land can be soaked in water to dissolve the salt in the land, and then the stagnant water can be drained away, and the saline-alkali situation can be improved. The foundation of Tagawa's house in Kitawa is the foundation of the construction waste mat generated during the demolition of the old school and the construction of the Hiroti Center, and there are no changes to Kitawa.

At this time, a new idea was formed in his mind: to drain the stagnant water from the depression, divert water from the Qinglong River for a second soak, and then dig the north side of the depression near the road into a pond, and use the soil to raise the south side. The newly excavated pond is built into a water feature, planted with aquatic plants such as lotus roots, changpu, and reeds, and then put in fish fry to make a fishing center attached to the tourist center, where lotus and lotus pods can be picked. The newly raised land in the south can be used to grow pasture grass and raise chickens, geese, fish, etc.

As soon as he thought of it, he immediately called Wang Dayong and explained his thoughts. He wanted the village to be responsible for draining the water and re-irrigating the soaked land, and then he would be responsible for digging the pond mat and the infrastructure of the lotus pond, and the lotus pond would return to the village in the future. The newly prepared land is raw land, and there will be no harvest if you plant any crops, but there is no big problem with planting alfalfa, planting alfalfa can increase the fertility of the land, and after a few years, with some fertilizer, this land can be used to grow crops. Naturally, Wang Dayong strongly supported this, and Tian Chuan's doing so was tantamount to returning half of the depression to the village after it had been renovated, so why didn't he accept it? He immediately gathered a few people in the village, set up a water pump, and drained the stagnant water in the north depression into the adjacent Qinglong River.

After deciding on the method of renovating the north depression, Tian Chuan went to the land in the south of the village to take a look. After the flood, more than half of the families replanted beans in the field, and a small part of the land was not replanted after the corn was drowned, but it seems that everyone is not optimistic about the replanted beans, basically did not do any field management, the field is overgrown with weeds, and the weeds on some plots are higher than the bean seedlings, and the autumn harvest is destined to become an impossible luxury.

These weeds are mainly grasses such as barnyard grass, but also have dicotyledon weeds such as purslane, as well as a small amount of Asteraceae weeds such as borage and dandelion, which are the favorite food of cattle and sheep. If it is turned directly into the ground like this, it will affect the planting of wheat, and the effect of fertilizing the field is not obvious. These weeds and bean seedlings, if harvested and made into silage, can be used as high-quality feed for cattle and sheep. It's just that Tagawa doesn't raise cattle and sheep, and these pastures are of little use to him.

The lame man in the village now has more than 100 sheep, and he can consume some forage, but he doesn't need much forage every year, and his sheep go out to graze all year round, so he will definitely not pay for forage. Tian Chuan himself didn't want to raise sheep and rob his business, so he didn't know what to do for a while.

Temporarily putting aside this preoccupation, Tagawa came to the base. The situation of the greenhouse is normal, with the slow increase of Liu Meiting's registered members, the shipment of vegetables has also risen some, and now the production capacity of the base is comparable to the member's * situation, and it has always maintained a slightly insufficient state.

The roosters had been sold out, and only one or two hundred remained, and now they were kept with the hens. A group of cocks that arrived at the end of July had already grown real feathers and were playing carefree on the grounds left by the previous batch of cocks. When the chicken farm was first built, more than 20 large white geese were purchased with half male and half female, and now the female goose has also begun to lay eggs. Goose eggs can be regarded as a relatively rare commodity, and they will be sold out quickly when they are listed on the website.

The shrimp in the fish pond are already half a tael and can be sold. The estimated output of this batch of shrimp is nearly 20,000 catties, and with the extension of the breeding time, it will grow a little more. Now there are still very few people who breed prawns, and the price of shrimp on the market is about 50 yuan a catty, which is much more expensive than later generations. The shrimp in this pond of Tagawa have been fed with natural feed, and have not used hormones or various drugs, so they are healthier than ordinary shrimp. The estimated price of the shrimp he gave was 100 yuan a catty, and if there were more than 40 grams, good quality, and meeting the requirements of special quality, it would be sold according to the only one, and the expected price would be as high as 15-20 yuan.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, he has sent a notice in advance on the Internet, tomorrow will be a trial catch of a batch of shrimp for sale, today's expected amount of shrimp is 400 catties, in view of tomorrow's festival, it is estimated that the 400 catties of shrimp will be very nervous. Sure enough, by noon, before ** started, many telephone members called in and demanded that the total amount of prawns for today be lifted, so that members could put prawns on the festive table. After receiving a call from Liu Meiting, Tian Chuan agreed to the request of the members, modified the total limit on the Internet, revised the total amount limit from 400 catties to 3,000 catties, and revised the limit of the * amount of each member from the original one catty to 3 catties, and the forum was suddenly jubilant. Most of these members are not bad at money, and it is nothing to add a relatively high-end new dish to the table of the show, and spend an extra hundred yuan.

For the delivery methods of prawns, two are available online. One is the traditional method, the prawns caught will be classified, weighed and packed into boxes for quick-freezing, sold as frozen products, the price of first-class products is 100 yuan a catty, and there is no special product for frozen products. The other is live shrimp plus water and oxygen distribution, each order needs to add an additional 30 yuan freight, and there is no secondary product for sale in live shrimp. When the live shrimp is delivered, if there is a death, the base will refund the dead shrimp.

When ordering in the afternoon, a total of more than 1,300 catties were ordered, and the customers of live shrimp accounted for more than 70% of the total number of customers, compared to the price of more than 100 yuan per catty, the shipping cost of 30 yuan was nothing. And customers are also curious about how they get fresh seafood to their homes as far away as Beijing.

The shrimp sold this time was the first batch of fresh aquatic products distributed by Tagawa, and Tagawa was not very confident about the oxygenated distribution method he proposed, so he followed the scene. The shrimp were caught in the morning before the truck departed, out

After the water, people immediately sorted the shrimp and put the shrimp of different specifications into a plastic bucket with a level number written on it, and the water in the bucket was the original pond water in the shrimp pond, but an oxygen pipe was put into the water for aeration and transportation. The shrimp are subcontracted at the distribution center in Beijing, packed into large plastic bags filled with water, filled with oxygen, and delivered to customers within an hour.

The next day, around 2 p.m. on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the results of the delivery were reported back, and when they arrived at the distribution center in the capital, the mortality rate of the shrimp was less than 5%, and there were only 4 deaths when they were delivered to customers, and only 5 deaths in total. This method of delivery has proven to be suitable for large quantities of live shrimp. In the future, due to the lower temperatures, the metabolism of fish and shrimp slows down, and the mortality rate during transportation drops to a very small number.

On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tagawa went to see the progress of the construction of the gas station that was given to his sister. After a month of construction, the gas station has completed the construction of the oil depot and underground oil pipes, the ground building has also completed the main construction, and the renovation is in progress. Programmable fuel dispensers are waiting to be installed. According to the on-site management of the construction party, the entire project will be completed within ten days, followed by the acceptance and preparation of the relevant departments for opening. Based on this progress, it is expected to open within October.

After watching the gas station, Tian Chuan went to Xu Jingyi's house and sent some holiday food to her family. Including moon cakes, apples, prawns and sea fish, and brought a case of Moutai wine to Xu's father.

Xu Jingyi didn't go home during the festival this time, and Tian Chuan didn't stay at Xu's house for long, so he put down his things and sat down for a while before going home. He's going back to help his mother cook dinner today.