Harvest #4-B
Click here for this weeks Worms Voice Newsletter(and we’ve posted pdf’s of the back issues with each harvest post too) It’s starting to feel like Harvest Day = Rain Day. Ugh. It gets a little hard to motivate the crew to head out into the fields and slog through the mud and spend the next […]
Cluck Cluck!
As you may have seen on our facebook page, we’re thinking about getting chickens here on the farm. Well, really, we’re planning on getting chickens, but right now we’re in that lovely stage where we’re dreaming big about what our chicken operation could look like. There are a lot of possibilities, and we’re pretty excited […]
A Special Visitor
Just as I finished posting our harvest for this week, I heard a little rustling from the shelves where we keep some of our seeds. I thought it might be a mouse that had somehow defied gravity and climbed to the top of the bookcase to snack on the kale seeds, but no, turned out […]
Baltimore Checkerspot Habitat Restoration
This week an excellent group of volunteers came and helped with a wetland habitat restoration project in the wetlands abutting the farm. Led by Denise Gibbs, a MNCPPC Naturalist and local authority on the Baltimore Checkerspot, the group helped execute a project designed to encourage the reproduction of the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly, the Maryland State […]
Harvest 2-B
Michelle, will add more fun here in a moment. But for those anxious to know what’s coming your way this week. Here’s what we got:Baby Collards or KaleSalad MixSpinachRadishesSpring OnionsGarlic ScapesButler’s StrawberriesSurprise Bonus to be revealed at pick up!
A great spring picture!
a GREAT spring picture of everyone- a little damp and a lot happy! We love garlic scapes!
Bluebird Report
Red Wiggler Bluebird Report at Ovid Haven Wells Park:16 of our 30 Bluebird boxes are now occupied. Red Wiggler has already fledged 20 young Bluebirds out of 4 nests. Currently twelve boxes have tree swallow nests-nine with eggs (a total of 34 eggs!) and 3 with babies (11 newborns). Two boxes have bluebird nests-one with […]
Here We Come!
Wow, what a day! We spent all morning in the pouring rain harvesting for the first CSA pick up. We froze our fingers in the Collards, found a bird’s egg nested in the Easter Egg Radishes, and spotted a snapping turtle mosying along the barn. We were a little nervous at first that we weren’t […]
Goodbye Barbara!
Today was an emotional day here on the farm. We said farewell to Barbara Hittle, who retired today after more than 44 years of working with adults with developmental disabilities. For almost 30 of those years she has worked as a job coach with the ARC of Montgomery County and 14 of those she spent […]
CSA Muffin Luck this Saturday!
The start of the CSA season is right around the corner, and here on the farm we’re getting revved up for this Saturday’s season kick-off event, the Muffin Luck. Muffin Luck is a great chance for old CSA members to reconnect and for new CSA members to meet their farmers, get to know Red Wiggler, […]