FarmSay this May: Heat and Holding Patterns
May sat under a scorching sun, and most of FarmSay did the sensible thing: it slowed down.
Hydroponics and the aeroponics tower went on pause for new sowing.
The trays already on the roof were busy just surviving, and it felt pointless to push a fresh batch into that heat for the sake of “continuity”.
Indoors, microgreens shifted from solo project to gentle campaign. I’ve been nudging our meals towards using what’s grown at home first. The experiment is whether this can become a family activity rather than one more thing only I care about.
A work video on “influencing skills” made me realise I’ve been running my own version of that at the dining table.
Mushrooms made a small entry. An hour of training in Mysuru made it real, but not enough to pretend expertise. Since then I’ve mostly been walking around the house, repurposing corners in my head to see where a modest grow could live without taking over.
On the “scale” front, one potential partnership kept moving, mostly on paper. May was about drafts of an agreement, a legal advisor, and sitting with the language long enough to see what we are actually signing up for.
The bees did the steady work this month. Under the same sun that paused hydroponics, the colonies kept their rhythm. My role was topping up sugar syrup so they had a buffer against the heat and patchy forage.
Outside FarmSay but still connected, the final GCPP grades landed at the end of May, and I’m relieved to have made the cut.
It closes one chapter of structured learning and opens another, where policy and practice might start showing up here too.
For a month that felt thin on visible progress, May still did its work: forcing a pause, testing small shifts at home, and keeping the question of “what to scale” on a slow simmer.