To celebrate our final greenhouse class of the fall the Youth Farmers decided we should have a party. With music, decorations, dancing, courtyard soccer, gummy worms, and guests, we celebrated the past seasons accomplishments. This fall there was a lot of be proud...
Today we are wrapping up what has been a spectacular series of cooking classes this fall. Starting at the end of September, Farm Steward Alice Martin began exploring seasonal cooking with West Side youth. Over the 9 week series the class has utilized a fresh fall...
Earlier this fall we threw a mid-week garden party to kick-off our fall cooking and greenhouse classes. It was a beautiful evening complete with dodge ball, freshly made snacks, and harvesting of fall crops. It was a time to reconnect with friends from the summer,...
Fall is here and the gardens are still very much alive. We’ve been harvesting peppers, cucumbers, squash and gourds, tomatoes, potatoes, and lots of cool weather crops like kale, chard, and cabbage. We’ve been preserving lots of the harvested goodies,...
This year we filled a row at the Robert Street garden with 29 Brandywine and 29 Rose Tomato plants. Each takes approximately 78 days to mature and those 78 days have felt like an eternity. We watched in anticipation all summer long and they’ve finally arrived....
Youth Farmers really like to paint. We’ve painted our sheds (inside and out), signs, benches, numerous tools, our trash can lid, t-shirts, and even our van. So when we stared at this blank, grey, leaky, cinder block eye-sore we knew just what to do. Farm...
