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Laura And Dale
February 22, 2021
Burt’s Greenhouses in Odessa. Ingenuity and resourcefulness drive the operations at Burt's Greenhouse for the good of the plants and the environment. Back in 1981, the decision Burt and his wife made to start up a greenhouse operation was completely serendipitous. Burt’s father was retiring, and the couple had moved to Odessa to take over his dairy farm. Hayward wanted a market garden, and Burt, who’d had such a garden in his teens, was completely on board. They thought they might rent part of a nearby greenhouse to grow seedlings — but the owners, who were nearing their own retirement, suggested they rent the whole thing. “And that’s how it all started,” Burt says. “The opportunity was there and we took it. Maybe being 24 at the time explains the decision.” Burt’s Greenhouses is known not only for the quality of its plants, but also for the ingenuity with which they grow. To keep greenhouses within an ideal temperature range for the plants, Burt burns wood chips that provide heat as needed. In 2009, Burt won a regional Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence for finding a way to control the airflow in the heating system so that emissions were greatly reduced, to the benefit of the environment. At the same time, he developed a way of feeding woodchips into the stoker that reduced power consumption. “The main advantage of this heating system is environmental,” Burt says. “By burning wood instead of oil, we get a smaller carbon footprint. It’s not that we use so much less energy, but getting the energy from wood means we’re using a renewable source instead of oil. And we save a bit of money as well, probably about half of the cost of heating with oil.” Hundreds of different plant species are grown at Burt’s Greenhouses. The list for potatoes alone is daunting — Adirondack Blue, Adirondack Red, Dark Red Chieftan, Goldrush, Irish Cobbler, Red Thumb, Superior, Yukon Gem, Yukon Gold, their particular traits all described on the website. Twenty species of begonias are listed more briefly. Three types of blueberry. Five types of cabbage. Twelve types of clematis. Seven types of cucumber. Ten types of delphinium. Five types of eggplant. Twenty-seven types of hosta. One wonders how 60,000 square feet of space can contain it all. Even in winter, Burt’s Greenhouses have a very long product list that includes, among other items, beet greens, broccoli microgreens, buckwheat shoots, endive, green leaf sorrel, kale, leaf fennel, microgreen cilantro, mizuna, nasturtium leaves, pepper grass, red leaf sorrel and Swiss chard. After a dark and cold winter, words can’t describe how beautiful it is to take in the sight of all that green.
Burt’s Greenhouses in Odessa. Ingenuity and resourcefulness drive the operations at Burt's Greenhouse for the good of the plants and the environment. Back in 1981, the decision Burt and his wife made to start up a greenhouse operation was completely serendipitous. Burt’s father was retiring, and t…
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