Tag: organic gardening
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New’s Year Eve Harvest
We’ll gather this coming Tuesday, December 31st at 10:30am at the garden to harvest collards and other crops for New Year’s luck! In case you’re not from the south (or haven’t lived here long), the traditional meal for New Year’s is black-eyed peas, collards (or other greens), pork and cornbread.…
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Changes and opportunities!
We generally try not to put too many different topics in one email, but I beg your indulgance in this case as there are several changes and opportunities we want to share with you. Schedule changes – this Tuesday is the last Tuesday night workday for 2024. Daylight savings time…
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We need your help tomorrow!
Tomorrow is our last opportunity to plant cover crops this year! We really need your help to get these seeds in the ground before it’s too cold! Maybe you’re wondering why and what we’re planting this time of year. The two crops you see above are cover crops – crimson…
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Fall Harvest Dinner – October 17
Please mark your calendar for Thursday, October 17 for our fall harvest dinner. We’ll all bring a dish or two to share, enjoy each other’s company and celebrate our accomplishments this year and our hopes for the coming year. Your family is all welcome to join in the fun. More…
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Tuesday time change 5-7pm
Starting this week, we will garden on Tuesdays from 5-7pm so we can finish and clean up before dark. We are still getting lots of summer produce to harvest, but we’re planting rows with fall crops like collards, kale, cabbage, carrots, radishes, turnips and others. We still have lots to…
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Brand new Garden Video
Check out the new garden video about our Grand Opening! A huge thank you to our talented and generous videographer/editor/producer-extraordinaire, Katherine Pearce (aka Peggy and Jerry’s daughter)! Please share this with your neighbors, friends and co-workers. We need to get the word out that our garden has re-opened at a…
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Come share watermelon! Thursday garden hours have ended
We picked one of the biggest watermelons last night and we’re going to test our melon harvesting skills tomorrow by cutting it to share with everyone. I’ll bring it in a cooler on ice, so bring your appetite and maybe a napkin and we’ll see if the watermelons are as…
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Garden cancelled tonight
As you might have guessed, we won’t be having garden hours tonight. We would likely need to recruit a flock of ducks if we tried to get out there in this weather! A brave group of gardeners harvested as much as they could on Tuesday morning before the storm arrived,…
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Strawberry plant give-away!
Our strawberries are just about done fruiting which means you have a great opportunity to take some of these plants home for your garden! Strawberries are perennial meaning they will survive and fruit again next spring. However, we’ve found that they make smaller, harder and fewer berries if you leave…
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Tater time!
We harvested over 280 pounds of potatoes from 3 of our 4 row this morning! We got some beautiful dark red Norlands, Yukon golds and Pontiacs. We still have one row of German butterballs that we’ll be harvesting soon. We also harvested 4 rows of garlic, lettuce, swiss chard, strawberries,…
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