In the interest of sharing what we know and hopefully attracting more wonderful people to the farm, we are launching a Summer Farm Internship with two openings. The position description Read More …
Year: 2009
Call for Potato Recipes
When I’m planting seeds in the spring I like to think about how delicious those plants will be to eat in the summer. In honor of the potatoes that we’re Read More …
Potatoes in the Snow
Today our big goal was to plant the 250 pounds of potatoes that we have in the barn. The weather turned out to have other plans for us, but we Read More …
Who Says It’s Too Cold?
Today was another chilly day on the farm, so we mostly focused on greenhouse work, planting our first round of tomatoes for starts later in the season. Last week though Read More …
Plugging In the Fields
Dear Farm Friends, You may have noticed Red Wiggler’s blog undergoing a few unusual transformations in the past week or so. Here on the farm, we’re trying to become a Read More …
2009 Season Calendar
I’d like to buy some tractor seeds
Today more seeds went in in our little green house and some tiny snapdragons poked their heads out of the potting soil. Later Adrienne and Michelle wrangled with the tractor. Read More …
Job Opening With Red Wiggler!
Dear All, One of our Growers’ well-loved job coaches is retiring, and now the ARC of Montgomery County http://www.arcmontmd.org searching for someone to fill her big shoes. The job coach Read More …
Greenhouse Work
Planting some flower seeds to get a jump on the season. Last week our water was a little tied up, so we tried to improvise a bit.
“Greenhouse” up and running
We put together our “greenhouse” yesterday and will start planting on Monday. We’ll start with the plants that take the most time and care: celeriac and numerous flowers. Soon, we’ll Read More …
Bee Mine
We got a Valentine today in the mail! How great is that?!
2009 CSA Lottery Complete
We held our 2009 CSA lottery yesterday. There were 44 applications for 34 spots. As I write this Adrienne is contacting the lucky 34 lottery winners. Last season we had Read More …
2009 CSA Lottery Open
While our return rate for CSA customers is 89% from our 2008 customers we are expanding the program and we have about 30 shares to open to the general public Read More …