Blog-Getting Our Fill

     If I say so myself, I am a big, hard-working part of the greenhouse operation at Glacial Ridge Growers.  As the new growing season begins for spring 2026, I find myself getting busier each day.  It is my job to accurately and in a timely fashion to dispense thousands of cubic feet of soil into various pots and plant flats.  I am the flat-filling machine.  I have the ability to reconfigure myself to fill many different types of plant containers.  I can accurately fill tiny plug cells, four-inch diameter pots, and even the large hanging baskets.  I work closely with the electric fork lift which loads soil into my soil hopper.  I have a multitude of settings to dispense various volumes of soil depending upon container sizes and shapes.
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     I work very hard, sometimes many hours a day, but my heavy-duty motors make it light and fast work.  Of course, I am assisted by workers who load empty containers into me and also catch the filled containers and place them onto carts to be taken to have plants transplanted into them.  I will have to say that my job is very fulfilling (no pun intended) as I see the greenhouses turn green with planted pots.