Cultivate connection in your neighborhood farm
This Month’s Highlights
We still have a good amount of summer crops coming in this month: with cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and herbs ready to harvest each week. A new round of blackberries are coming in and the passion fruit and bell peppers are starting to ripen.
This month we will start planning what we want to get in the ground for the Fall season.
Open Hours
Weekday open hours are moving to Thursdays. All open hours will be earlier in the day to avoid the heat!
Weekdays: Thursdays 9:30am - 10:30am
Weekends: 2nd or 3rd Saturday 9:30am - 11:00am
*Check the calendar for the exact days!
See what we are growing.
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Let us know what you’d love to see growing in the farm!
Do you have favorite seasonal produce from the farmer’s market? Looking for something a little more unusual? What are you always going back to the grocery store for first?
Let’s grow it!
Farm Logistics
A few things to keep in mind when you come by…
Where to Enter
When you come to visit the farm, please enter from the farm gate that is engulfed by passion fruit vines at the top of the hill. The gate latch is on the passion fruit side (often hidden in the vines).
Watch your Step
The farm is very steep! The levels have been terraced so that we have flat rows to grow food, but the stairs connecting the levels are still very steep to walk on. Please use the railing when going up and down the stairs.
Walk on the Walkway
Each farm row has an area for planting and a mulched walkway. Always walk on the walkway and do not step in the area where the plants are growing. This will compact the soil and disrupt the microbes in the soil.
No Need for Hands & Knees
The terrace walls were designed at a height (3ft - 3.5ft) so that an adult can stand in the walkway of one row and face the terrace wall of the row behind/above it and work on that row while standing. This means most of the time you will not need to kneel down to get your hands in the soil.
Look for the Hose
There is a hose with a closeable nozzle attached to a spigot at the top level of the farm near the NE corner (by the passion fruit vines and along the metal railing adjacent to the neighbor’s house).
Watch out for Pitch
Pitch is a sticky sap-like substance that sometimes oozes out of the wood of the terrace walls and stairs. Pitch will stick to everything (hands, clothes, shoes, …you name it). Don’t fret - it comes out with rubbing alcohol!
Tell me more
The wood of the Canary Island Pine tree was chosen as the material for the walls and stairs specifically because of its robustness to pests and biodegradation when it is in direct contact with the soil. Its resilience is due to the pitch, which naturally protects the wood. Building with Canary Island Pine enabled us to use untreated wood in the farm so that no chemicals would leach into the soil and food.