Spring has Sprung!
We have had a very busy few weeks here at Red Wiggler. Since winter held on for so long this year, we had to act fast once the soil thawed and dried enough for planting. Our greenhouse is bursting at the seams, and we are transplanting and seeding in the fields as fast as we […]
Preparing for the Season
As everyone on the East Coast is well aware, freezing weather and winter precipitation have continued into the usual beginning of our farming season. Fortunately, we have used the delay to work on several pre-season projects. On a farm, planning, reflection, field preparation, and inventories before the season starts are just as important as weeding […]
Winter at Red Wiggler II: Microgreens
As we mentioned in December, this winter we have been staying busy growing microgreens in our greenhouse and program building. Students from Seneca Valley High School and Ivymount School visit the farm weekly to seed and harvest the microgreens; our Growers and Growers-in-Training are also participating, and working behind the scenes to keep the program running […]
New Vegetable Varieties in 2014
During each winter here at Red Wiggler, our staff plans out all of the vegetables, herbs, and flowers we’d like to grow over the following year. We analyze what grew well over the past year, which fields should lie fallow in the coming year, which vegetables CSA customers seemed to like most and least, and […]
Winter at Red Wiggler
It would be easy to assume that the staff and programming at Red Wiggler have gone into hibernation along with the fields. While we’re enjoying this change of seasons, we have been busy preparing for our inaugural winter programming: growing microgreens in the greenhouse. In January and February, we will be hosting students from the […]
A Successful 18th Season
Ever wonder what 33,571 pounds of vegetables looks like? That’s nearly 17 tons, and it’s the total amount of produce we distributed to CSA members, group homes and food banks in the 2013 season. We also hosted a whopping 2,646 volunteer hours in our fields and employed 16 Growers to do valuable, meaningful work. Looking […]
#GivingTuesday
We are excited to participate in the second annual #GivingTuesday. Created to kick-off the holiday giving season, #GivingTuesday gives non-profits across the country the chance to bolster community support. Making a donation to Red Wiggler today will allow us to run new and innovative programming through the Winter. — placeholder — — placeholder — Whether […]
Sheet-Mulching with Sidwell Friends School
On Thursday, Sidwell Friends’ fifth-grade class came out for a terrific field trip and service learning visit. Thankfully the weather improved from earlier in the week, so it was a beautiful day to mulch our fields! We are employing a technique called sheet-mulching, which adds organic material to a bed over the course of the […]
Because of you, we met the match!
The count is in! Red Wiggler’s Board Challenge Match has been met at $15,320 At Red Wiggler’s Harvest Celebrations on September 7th, 2013 Red Wiggler’s Board of Directors challenged our community to raise $10,000 and meet a $10,000 Board Challenge match by the end of the fiscal year (September 30th, 2013). We are very excited to share that our Board Challenge Match […]
The Big Wig Award goes to…
Congratulations Mr. Elmer Jurado! In appreciation for his work at Red Wiggler, the 2013 Big Wig Award was presented to Mr. Elmer Jurado, a paraeducator at Seneca Valley High School. The Big Wig Award is presented to an individual in our community who embodies Red Wiggler’s vision of creating fertile ground to nourish a healthy […]