1st CSA Harvest/s
This week is the beginning of our regular 20 week harvest season. Community Supported Agriculture participants will pick up the following vegetables here on the farm. Members come on: Wednesdays between 2 pm and 6 pm or Saturdays between 9 am and noon. Here is what is in this week’s harvest: 1 bunch of Hakurei […]
Volunteering at Red Wiggler
Volunteering at Red Wiggler What a spring we had at the Red Wiggler Community Farm in 2006! Plantings abound – from seedlings in flats under lights to direct seeding in the fields. There has been a lot of prep work to develop soil fertility for higher yields. Heavy cover crop seed bags have been emptied […]
Late April Garden Up-date & Mission Statement Up-Date
Late April Garden Up-date & Mission Statement Up-Date In March I am told we endured the least amount of rainfall since area records have been kept. The up-side of low rainfall is it allows us to work in the gardens. This meant we were able to work the soil and plant our seeds and get […]
Busy busy busy
The past few weeks have been extremely productive. We direct seeded kale, collards, braising greens, turnips, beets, more spinach, carrots, fava beans, more peas and an assortment of “green manures”. We also planted 200 more crowns of asparagus. We now have 500 crowns growing and we expect our first major harvest of asparagus to be […]
Lime
Yesterday we spread 820 pounds of lime over a 27,000 sq. ft portion of our garden beds. We also began setting up lights in our office where we will be growing over 3,000 seedlings from seed during the next 3 months.
Shannon Varleys article published on newfarm.org
In 2003 Shannon Varley came to work with Red Wiggler. Reciently she published an article on NewFarm.org New Farm is published by the Rodale Institute and is an outstanding resource for farmers on the cutting edge of the sustainable agriculture movement. I am delighted that Shannon was able to find the time to tell her […]
Excerpts of the day
Over the weekend we held a board meeting to discuss our Mission, Vision, and Core Values. It went well and a lot of thinking went into how to fully express our intentions here at Red Wiggler. In the coming months look for the changes on our website’s mission page. Lately, I’ve been working to secure […]
Exciting Developments
Well, things have begun to gather steam around these parts lately. Last weekend we went to the PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) conference at Penn State. We all (Beth, Woody, and Adrienne) walked away excited for the new season, loaded with lots of new knowledge and ideas. Shouts of joy were let out this […]
Saturday CSA is FULL – still openings for the “extended season”
We opened up the CSA this past Monday to new participants. We had about 20 spaces to fill and they are now ALL GONE for our regular season (June-Oct). We do still have shares available for our extended season which begins in mid-October and runs for 4 weeks. If you like greens, root vegetables and […]
Wednesdays are FULL
Hello and Good Afternoon. This is my first entry on our blog, so pardon my excitement.Well, after fielding many a phone call in the past two days and getting a literal “haul” at the post office today, we are officially full for our Wednesday CSA pickups. We only have about 8 spots left for our […]