We had a productive work day on Sunday, turning over several beds and planting seedlings members picked up from a GreenThumb giveaway, as well as some seedlings from our planting committee. There were a lot of tomatoes, as well as peppers, eggplants, greens, okra, a couple more cucumbers, and some mystery plants that might be broccoli? We also have some mystery tomatoes from GreenThumb. Could they be cherry tomatoes? We’ll find out soon!

One new thing we are trying this year is planting in gutters. So far we put in (what we’re pretty sure is) kale and some swiss chard. Already we have planted up about half of our beds, and we hope we’ll have a little sun this week to encourage our seedlings along.

We were hoping to have a work day and begin planting this weekend, but instead the farm is blanketed in snow. The collards that kept going all winter might finally succumb to winter’s delayed departure.

Despite this set back, we are still planning for a work day on an upcoming Saturday, if the weather will cooperate. March 25th or April 1st (or both!) will be days to prep beds, repair compost bins, and hopefully get some seeds in the ground. Our planting committee has been testing and starting seeds.

We are also planning our annual Earth Day event for April 22nd — more details to come!

We had our first group meeting at the farm today to meet and orient new members and start talking about the planting plan for 2017. Since the weather was so nice, we also got some early clean-up done, clearing out around the tulips and daffodils. The planting committee hopes to start organizing over the next two weeks, so we’ll be ready to get seeds started/planted and start this year off strong.

We’ve planned our first official work day of the year for next Saturday, March 4th from 10 AM until 1 PM. We’ll be trench composting, turning over beds, and doing more general cleanup.

You can tell how mild this winter was, as we have a lot of greens still going strong from last year. The asian greens and arugula were planted late last summer as a fall crop, but the collards have been going since last spring!

The days are getting noticeably shorter, but we are still harvesting plenty of cucumbers, collards, and of course tomatoes.

We’ll have our next work day on Saturday, August 27th from 10am to 1pm and hope to plant more for fall.

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We’ve had a fair amount of wet weather over the last few weeks, which has been much appreciated by the seedlings at the farm. Everything is looking great! The rows of greens were ready to be thinned this week, and the irises on the hill are a sight to see.

As we get into late spring, we are getting close to completing our main planting, thanks in part to the annual GreenBridge plant giveaway where we obtained cucumbers, zucchini, sweet and hot peppers, and lots of grape tomatoes. We have more tomato seedlings to plant soon and will sow a few more cucumbers and beans. As the temperatures warm and the sun hides a bit less, we should see everything really come alive.