MICA Sustainable Food Project

Hey everyone,

In the next few weeks we’re going to try and build this high tunnel at the garden (see photo of model from the previous post). This means that this and the following two weekends will include volunteer days at the site. If you’re interested in helping, this weekend we’re meeting at the Buddha Garden at 11 am. Patrick won’t be there, because he’ll be planting trees with a class. I think it will take about three hours to do what we need to do (till and add amendments to the soil) and that amount of time decreases depending on the number that show. Anyone that comes can take as many herbs, tomatoes, and eggplant that we have.

The upcoming volunteer days will include free fall seedlings. Hope to see you all out there. Feel free to invite anyone else.

Starting small, but:

Soon.

(Patrick built it, I took the photo)

High Tunnels and Season Extension

This breakfast recipe comes from Nellie Geraghty:

As much chicken stock as you want to eat
As much Kale as you want to eat
As much onion as you want to eat.
Anything else you think would taste good in the morning.

Boil all of that for thirty minutes, then crack a [really fresh] egg into the mix and turn off the heat. You want the egg yolk to stay soft Wait three minutes. Eat it.

You get calcium from the stock, iron from the kale, and protein and vitamin d from the egg.

(It was so good this morning.)

All this weekend we’re going to be planting in the garden. (Thanks to the CGRN giveaway and what we’ve picked up at Meyer Seed from the farm stands during the summer). If anyone wants to help out just show up.

overhead views of the garden:

close ups, a passion flower in the garden (notice the ants) and the adjacent Buddha statue that gives our garden its name:

(patrick actually took those last two)
this weekend we’ll be pulling out a lot of the crops. Let us know if you’d like anything to eat. We’ve already got some seed starters going, and we’re looking forward to CGRN’s giveaway this saturday.

We’re also trying to get as many people started on worm bins as we possibly can. Worms are in the mail.

And for the fall, we’d like to build a high tunnel to extend our growing season. Right now we’re looking for bamboo. If you or someone you know would like us to come cut down their pesky bamboo, [and put it to good use] please let us know.

Pictures from another farm stand

cucumber mosaic virus:
hard times for the garden

Tomorrow, around 11, we’re doing a farmstand in front of Cafe’ Doris. We’ll have a bunch of cucumbers, tomatoes and kale. At the same time, I think there is a free-swap thing at the Brown Center. Come see us!

So many kinds of tomatoes

and kale!

In the next few weeks we’re going to be selling food from the garden in front of Cafe Doris

(a photo of our first go at it, last week)