Volunteer Days May 6 to May 12, 2012

Tuesday, May 8, 8:30 to 10:  We'll stir and spray the silica prep.  Come help out with this one hour stir and take a little of the prep home for your own garden too.

Thursday, May 10, 8:30 to noon:  We'll plant okra and beans, finish installing the trellises and weed and feed the grains bed.

Friday, May 11, 1:00 to 3:00:  We'll weed all the empty spots in the winter root bed and plant buckwheat as a cover crop, add manure to the compost pile, and spread some cardboard and wood chips on the paths between the beds.

Picture of the Week

Here is one of our rising 3rd graders holding one of the first heads of lettuce harvested this year.  Bella often volunteers to help with packaging the vegetables for market.  Thank you for you help!

Volunteer Days April 29 to May 5, 2012

Thursday, May 3 from 8:30 to noon:  Plant more parsnips, prep a bed for sweet potatoes, weed the winter root bed and plant it in cover crops.

Friday, May 4 from 1:00 to 3:00:  Finish anything we didn't get to on Thursday, then add manure to the compost pile and lay down cardboard and wood chips in section D.

Pictures of the Week

Calendula and Dill, both of which you can buy at Tuesday Market, 8:15 to 8:45 AM and 3:00 to 3:45 PM every Tuesday.  Come check it out!

Farm Work Days March 11 to 17, 2012

Tuesday Market starts next week, March 13.  Bring your cash or check at pick up or drop off time and get your healthy, delicious, fresh, biodynamic veggies grown by our own students and volunteers.

Monday, March 12, 8:30 to 10:30 - We'll plant a flat of cosmos, plant calendula and larkspur seed outdoors, prep bed space for zinnia, cosmos, aster, thyme and marigold, and feed the rose bush.

Tuesday, March 13, 8:30 to 10:30 - We'll plant a flat each of lettuce and chard, transplant lettuce to their outdoor bed, plant more cilantro outdoors, prep bed space for celery and fennel, and weed the sorrel.

Thursday, March 15, 8:30 to noon - We'll transplant the blueberry bushes that were donated to us by Ans Bilhorn (Thank you Ans!), prep bed space for tomatoes, beans, butternut squash, pumpkins, zucchini, peppers and melons, and weed, feed, edge and trellis the raspberries.

Friday, March 16 - Work day is cancelled for teacher in-service.

Pictures of the Week

On Monday we harvested our winter carrots for the first time.  The children had been anticipating this moment all winter long and were not disappointed.  Each carrot came out differently that the one before it.  Some were long, some short.  Some had two "legs" or a corkscrew shape.  All of them were sweet and delicious!

Farm Work Days, March 4 to March 10, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 8:30 to 10:30:  We'll finish weeding and feeding the big shade bed, prep a new bed for more annuals, and start weeding the big perennial bed.

Thursday, March 8, 8:30 to 11:30:  We'll plant a flat of tomatoes, weed a bed for corn, beans, tomatoes and butternut squash, and weed, feed, edge and trellis the raspberries.

Friday, March 9, 1:00 to 3:00:  We'll plant the last of the carrots, plant the potatoes if the seed has come in, thin the first planting of carrots, add manure to the compost pile, and weed the winter root bed.

Signs of Spring

The daffodils and pansies are in full bloom.

Annayse is using this lovely warm day to take care of her hives.

And, last but certainly not least, the much anticipated asparagus is sending up its first tentative shoots.  The Tuesday Markets will be reopening soon!!

Tuesday Market, December 13, 2011

Visit us in the gazebo, 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon on Tuesdays. We'll be there rain or shine.  

This will be our last week of the market until the asparagus starts showing up in early spring, usually mid-March.

We had an excellent fall season and are deeply grateful to everyone who supported the garden by visiting the market.  See you on Tuesday and again next spring!

Parsley, $1/bag

Arugula, $2/bag

Mustard, $1/bag

Lettuce, $2/bag

Cilantro, $1/bag

Collards, $2/bag

Tuesday Market, December 6, 2011

Visit us in the gazebo, 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon on Tuesdays. We'll be there rain or shine.  

Come get your fresh veggies and herbs and support the farm program at the same time.  100% of the money you spend at the Emerson Farm market table goes into supporting the cost of tools, seeds and plants at the farm.

Even though we've had cold night time weather all week long, our cold loving leafy greens have been just fine.  This week we will have ....

Cilantro, $1/bag

Parsley, $1/bag

Rosemary, $1/bunch

Arugula, $2/bag

Mustard, $1/bag

Mushrooms:  Shiitake and/or Oyster, $8/pound

Weather permitting

Lettuce, $2/bag

Tuesday Market - November 29, 2011

Visit us in the gazebo, 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon on Tuesdays. We'll be there rain or shine.  

Thanks to help from 3rd grade and farm volunteers we now have cloches (like a mini greenhouse) covering our leaf and root beds so we will be able to offer fresh veggies until Christmas Break.  We'll start up again in early spring when the asparagus and shiitake are ready.  

Meanwhile, come get your fresh veggies and herbs and support the farm program at the same time.  100% of the money you spend at the Emerson Farm market table goes into supporting the cost of tools, seeds and plants at the farm.

This week we will have ....

Lettuce, $2/bag

Collards, $2/bag

Dill, $1/bunch

Rosemary, $1/bunch

Arugula, $2/bag

Mustard, $1/bag

Mushrooms:  Shiitake and/or Oyster, $8/pound

Weather permitting

Fingerling Sweet Potatoes $1.50/pound

Excellent for soups and stews.

We have four varieties: Violetta, All Purple, Bradshaw and Ginseng each with its own unique flavor and coloring

Thanksgiving Week

Both the Tuesday Market and all Work Days are cancelled for next week.  Our third graders, who do most of the harvesting, are going on a field trip on Monday so there will be no veggies for the market.  Everyone will also want to be enjoying the holiday so there will be no work days.

Both the market and work days will resume the week of Nov. 27 to Dec. 3.

Have a wonderful break and enjoy your families and lots of good food next week!

Pictures of the Week

Above is the root bed and below is the leaf bed in which most of our market vegetables were grown this fall.  

Tuesday Market - November 15, 2011

Visit us in the gazebo, 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon on Tuesdays. We'll be there rain or shine.  

Come get your fresh veggies and herbs.  Support the farm program at the same time.  100% of the money you spend at the Emerson Farm market table goes into supporting the cost of tools, seeds and plants at the farm.

As the weather and light move closer to winter, what we will have available becomes less predictable.  We will have some, but not all of the following....

Sweet Potatoes $2/pound

We have four varieties: Violetta, All Purple, Bradshaw and Ginseng

Lettuce, $2/bag

Collards, $2/pound

Dill, $1/bunch

Rosemary, $1/bunch

Radishes, $1.50/bunch

Arugula, $1/bag

Mustard, $1/bag

Sorrel, $2/bag

Tomatoes, 25 cents each

There are just a few of these left.  Kitchen counter ripened, but still tasty.

Mushrooms:  Shiitake and/or Oyster, $8/pound

Weather permitting

We are also offering parents at the school the opportunity to sell produce from their own gardens for a $5 per day table fee.  If you are a parent at the school and are interested in renting table space, please contact Mary Beth Mueller via the number in the school directory, or you can send an email via this blog. 

Tuesday Market, November 8, 2012

Visit us in the gazebo, 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon on Tuesdays. We'll be there rain or shine.  

Come get your fresh veggies and herbs.  Support the farm program at the same time.  100% of the money you spend at the Emerson Farm market table goes into supporting the cost of tools, seeds and plants at the farm.

We'll have...

Mushrooms:  Shiitake and/or Oyster, $8/pound

Weather permitting

Sweet Potatoes $2/pound

We have four varieties: Violetta, All Purple, Bradshaw and Ginseng

Lettuce, $2/bag

Collards, $2/pound

Dill, $1/bunch

Rosemary, $1/bunch

Radishes, $1.50/bunch

Arugula, $1/bag

Mustard, $1/bag

Sorrel, $2/bag

Tomatoes, 25 cents each

There are just a few of these left.  Kitchen counter ripened, but still tasty.

We are also offering parents at the school the opportunity to sell produce from their own gardens for a $5 per day table fee.  If you are a parent at the school and are interested in renting table space, please contact Mary Beth Mueller via the number in the school directory, or you can send an email via this blog.