Last Harvest of the Extended Season
It’s the last of the extended season harvest. Hope you enjoyed the season. GarlicPeppersHot PeppersEggplant OR Winter SquashRadishesTurnipsBeetsBeet GreensSwiss ChardPotatoes and a few grab box items: baby carrots, broccoli, green tomatoes -adrienne
Solar House Foundation Walls Go Up
The block foundation walls went up this week. Special thanks to Whitney, Baily, Cox and Magnani engineers Dick Magnani and Rob Murray for designing the foundation pro-bono and providing on site support during construction this week. Rob was the 2005 Solar House Project Manager. He and the others on the 05 UMD Solar House team […]
Extended Season 3rd Harvest and Mulching Garlic
In addition to continuing with our “extended season” harvests the growers have finished planting next years garlic crop. This week they are mulching the garlic with straw generously donated to us by Jean Phillips of Phillips Farm. Thanks Jean! A chilly, windy third week of the extended season but we still have lots of fall […]
Solar House Footer Pour!!!!
Today workers were pouring concrete footers for the Solar House. Next week they will be working on the block work for the foundation.
Extended Season 2nd Harvest & our First Autumn Frost
Here is a photo of our post harvest routine today. Also we should note that over the past two nights we have experienced our first hard frosts of the fall season. These frosts killed off our basil, pepper plants, eggplant and the last of the tomatoes. Recognizing the coming frosts the growers harvested all our […]
Solar House Ground Breaking !!!
I am happy to post these pictures of last weeks Solar House ground breaking activities. Workers were installing the sediment control fence. They should be digging the foundation and installing the gravel driveway this week! We’ll post images weekly that will illustrate our progress. We are grateful to the University of Maryland 2005 Solar Decathlon […]
Extended Season 1st Harvest & garlic planting
Here the growers, with the help of “service learning” volunteersare planting the 2008 garlic crop The extended season begins, tomorrow, October 24th.Here’s what the harvest looks like: beets & their greensturnips & their greensradishestomatoespepperseggplanthot pepperssalad mixgarlicA winter squashokrabroccoli The PYO is open and there are PLENTY of flowers and herbs to harvest for your home!There […]
Week #18–The Last Hurrah!
Here’s a picture of us sorting tomatoes in OCTOBER! Crazy that we still have them, but we won’t deny that they’re still great. So on an endnote of the last harvest, here’s the list: Apples (from a neighbor’s yard-not pretty, but good for baking and eating too)GarlicEggplantGreen TomatoesRed TomatoesHeirloom TomatoesSweet PeppersHot PeppersA Winter SquashA Pumpkinbag […]
Week 17 News and Notes
We’ve begun the process of removing the oldest of our tomatoes in preparation of the incoming fall garlic planting. Reminder!! There are 2 weeks (including this week) left of our regular season CSA. The extended season starts October 24th. In celebration of another season, our 12th, passing we invite you to join us for a […]
Week #16 and Notes
Loran, Tyler, Adrienne and David goofing for a picture by Jerry Oops, I guess we didn’t get published last week when I was gone. So here’s this week’s news, notes, and harvest list. This week marks Loran’s last week with us this year. Please take a moment to offer your thanks to him for all […]