Posted in BCS Teaching Garden/SotE Urban Farm 2011, Changing Seasons, Learning, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Feb 19th, 2011
On this brilliantly sunny February Saturday, we ordered chicks and ducklings from the feed store, and discovered garlic, crocus, vibrant-pink rhubarb emerging from the soil, and soaked up the first hints of spring-to-come.
In a week in which we had a lot of sickness and stress, and grief, I am doubly blessed that we are learning [...]
Posted in BCS Teaching Garden/SotE Urban Farm 2011, Changing Seasons, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Feb 16th, 2011
We’re back! I can’t believe I haven’t blogged in over two months! Morning sickness is finally (mostly) gone, and life is getting back to normal a little bit. So, let’s call this a fresh start, shall we? We’ve decided to make a concerted effort to use this space to document and reflect on what’s going [...]
Posted in Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Sep 11th, 2010
This afternoon, while the children built a fort on the driveway out of spent sunflower and cosmos stalks, I spent a good two hours in the front yard, harvesting Golden Hubbard and Buttercup winter squash from the bed closest to the street, and removing and chopping the dead and dying vines for the compost.
Overall, not [...]
Posted in Learning, Locally grown, Nature Table, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Sep 6th, 2010
Temperatures have been dipping down into the low 50s and high 40s at night, and there’s been a crispness to the air that says Autumn is on her way here.
Many plants are waning, having set seed and beginning to shut down for the year. So, this afternoon, in the bright sunshine, we cleaned up many, [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, From my kitchen, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Aug 25th, 2010
The tomatoes are starting to ripen! Can’t wait to take them in to BCS on Friday!! Families have been asking for the last month when we’d have fresh, ripe tomatoes.
90 percent of the tomatoes are still green, including many gigantic beefsteaks, like this Brandywine (look at that sucker in my hand! HUGE!). If you’ve got [...]
Posted in Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Aug 2nd, 2010
A few quick shots from the garden this evening at sunset. It’s changing so much every day – the paths are disappearing, the dahlias have begun to bloom, and there will be the first of the pole beans to harvest by the end of the week.
The beautiful blue-green foliage in the lower left of this [...]
Posted in Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jul 21st, 2010
It’s late July in the BCS Teaching Garden @ Salt of the Earth Urban Farm! The pumpkin vines have taken over! The runner beans are finally climbing their poles, and we have summer squash setting on every plant!
The garden is really changing – we pulled all of the garlic and shallots from our family beds [...]
Posted in Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jul 12th, 2010
We’re harvesting 8 types of hard and softneck garlic this week (and shallots, and pulling up spent pea vines). Despite some of the garlic struggling with rust due to the rainy weather, nearly all of the bulbs are big and well formed and beautiful.
Garlic is so easy to grow, and heirloom garlic come in such [...]
Posted in Building Community, Giving, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jun 30th, 2010
A few things from this morning’s harvest. Carrots, beets, 3 types of kale, lots and lots of chard, and buckets full of sugar snap and snow peas.
So grateful for the constant stream of Teaching Garden volunteers today. Folks were working hard from 9:30 am straight through to 4:30pm. We’re feeling very, very blessed. A [...]
Posted in Building Community, Homemaking, Learning, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jun 26th, 2010
It’s late June at Salt of the Earth Urban Farm (home of the BCS Teaching Garden)! Finally, some warm weather (mid-upper 70’s) has settled in (the tomatoes, summer squash and bush beans look much happier) and everything is flourishing.
The harvest is increasing – every week, we are taking a few dozen cartons of organic [...]