10th CSA Harvest
This week’s shares will include: 20 Tomatoes Cherry tomatoes Potatoes Eggplant Okra Summer Squash Purple beans And Chard This is a message from a Saturday CSA participant- Aaron Kahn: “We are going on vacation next week and wanted to see if anybody would be interested in switching from the Wednesday, August 16th pick up to […]
9th CSA Harvest
Ohhh it is a hot one out there- 100 degrees and humid. This means our tomatoes are happy and our growers, one and all, are encouraged to hydrate throughout the harvest. This photo is one Jerry took yesterday. This week the harvest looks like this: Regular red tomatoes with a few heirlooms coming in Cherry […]
8th CSA week
Pardon the late post for the Wednesday group… Thanks to all who joined us for the Farm Tour and Art Farm. We’ve been busy preparing for the first “fall” plantings by preparing the soil with Leaf Gro and tilling under the straw mulch in the old garlic patch. It’s hard to believe we are already […]
Farm Tour – ARTFARM
Join us on Saturday, July 22nd from 10 am to 3 pm for the 17th Annual Farm Tour and Harvest Sale. ARTFARM is a multimedia celebration of arts in nature for people of all ages- music, dance, puppetry, visual arts, environmental sculpture/installations and more organized by Mary Ann Ross and Ric Wagner of Concerts In […]
7th CSA week
We are busy playing a bit of catch up after all the rain- over 12 inches in one week. But our CSA will be enjoying the bounty of the rains in the form of Summer Squash, Zukes and Cukes! This week: First picking of Green Beans Fresh Garlic Lots of Yellow Crook Neck Squash Lots […]
6th CSA harvest, a wedding and “Artfarm”
We all took a long weekend to celebrate the 4th as well as Shannon Varley’s marriage to BJ Miller on Monday, July 3rd in Pittsburg PA! It was a beautiful, loving wedding set on an idyllic farm complete with lots of kids and plenty of dancing in a restored bank barn from the mid-1800s. Congratulations […]
5th CSA week & the spotted Baltimore Checkerspot
We are honored to be able to report that on June 9th the 11th known Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) colony in the state of Maryland was spotted by Pat Durkin at Red Wiggler. When this orange-and-black checkered butterfly was named the official Maryland State insect in 1973, the species was common throughout the region within […]
4th CSA harvest and travel report
This week we will be harvesting: Salad Mix Arugula Kale Chard Kohlrabi (see photo above) Turnips Garlic Scapes Spring Onions and Blueberries (from Butlers Orchard) The Horticulture Therapy conference in Portland OR was highly informative. In short, there is clear documented evidence that access to plants and interacting with the natural world through gardening is […]
3rd CSA Harvest and a request
This week in your Share you will find: Salad Mix Swiss Chard (photo above is of our growers, staff, and volunteers harvesting chard) Kale Turnips Kohlrabi Spinich Spring Onions Garlic Scapes Sorry for the short posting but I am off to Portland OR for the 2006 American Horticultural Therapy Associations Annual Conference. The conference […]
2nd CSA Harvest/s
This week CSA participants can expect the following: 1 bunch Red Russian Kale – jagged leaves with reddish hue- 1 bunch of Collards– rounded green leafs 1 bag of baby Salad Mix– about a half pound 1 bag of Arugula -about a half pound-this can be eaten raw as a spicy salad by itself or […]