Global Youth Service Day was once again a huge success thanks to our dedicated volunteers from Comcast, the Youth Farmers that led their own work crews, and our amazing community partners. For the second year in a row Chipotle (on…

Yes Sir! It was beyond funky, and not in a good way.  A rat jumped off the 3rd shelf and scampered away, and afterwards 3 little mice also decided to move out. Spiders galore, and some way smelly goo of…

20 bales of alfalfa hay = 20 self-composting raised beds! That’s the plan, at least. We are hoping that when we revisit these bales in early spring they will be soft and composted in the middle, so we can plant…

  Every great idea starts with a plan. ABOVE: The Plan ABOVE: Krystal beginning to execute The Plan

Today we got stuck into the old Japanese Garden. It was hard work , but so worth it. We started with a pretty uneven piece of land. The weeds and blackberries were also slowly but surely making their way back…

If they keep multiplying the way they do we will end up with strawberry fields…but today we simply planted them. An awesome friend of the farm, Marissa, donated a ton of strawberry and iris plants to us today. Here’s Katrin…

It’s Halloween this weekend ( basically one of my most favorite american holidays, back in South Africa we didn’t get to trick-or-treat at all)!!! Katrin and I, and our dogs, got into the spirit of things… I was a beehive.…

It’s no secret that things on the farm slow down significantly during the cooler months. Sure, there’s cover crop to plant, winter greens to harvest, raised beds to plan and build, and some beautiful bulbs to get into the ground,…