It was hot and steamy this weekend, but there were farmers out early Saturday to tend to our beds and stake plants. Everything is growing well, including the weeds! We are trying our best to keep up with them all.

We have two work days scheduled on our calendar this week:

• Tuesday morning we’ll be receiving soil and lumber from GreenThumb and can use help from 8:30–10:30am to help move everything in the farm. Some of the soil will be going into empty beds.
• Saturday we’ll be continuing the project by constructing a new raised bed with the lumber and then fill with soil and level it out. We usually have a small group of farmers working on Saturday mornings, but we’ll need a good crew to get this project done.

Please come lend a hand if you are able to!

True summer is only a few days away now, and we’ve been having plenty of storms to help keep the farm well-watered. We’re seeing more signs of the harvests to come (aside from the plentiful greens we’ve been enjoying) — our first snap peas and lots of bush bean blossoms were most seductive today. Almost all our tomatoes are flowering now, so it won’t be long until we have ripe veggies to share.

The green beans we replanted late popped up quickly, and there are some lovely white onion flowers up on the hill, a beautiful organic variety one of our composters saved from the bin. Overall the farm is starting to fill up with greenery.

On July 1st, in addition to our usual Saturday tasks, we’re getting a bunch of soil and lumber to fill and build new raised beds. Anyone interested in lending a hand should come between 10 and 11am.

It has been quiet at the farm after we harvested the last of our greens this fall and seeded a cover crop for the winter, but we are starting to plan for the 2017 growing season.

We will have an orientation for new members on Saturday, February 25, at 12:00, weather permitting. Anyone who wants to learn about the compost operation or see it in action can come between 11:00 and noon, during our normal Saturday compost collection hours.