Will Learn for Produce!
The taste of a freshly picked tomato straight from the vine of the plant that you have grown yourself is a taste like no other. If you have never had a bite of a juicy tomato fresh from the garden, you are missing out. At the Urban Farm and the Columbia St. Garden, we grow […]
The Urban Farm fig tree located right beside the club house is massive, and probably the coolest tree at the farm. When the tree begins to ripen near the end of summer with fresh figs, there has to be hundreds. This Summer we had a few students climb up to the tree and pick bucketfuls […]
That time of year. A post shared by Urban Farm (@urbanfarmfriend) on Aug 15, 2017 at 1:49pm PDT Making Apple Cider at the Farm!!! Making Fresh apple cider at the Urban Farm is a treat normally reserved for the Fall term class when the apples are fallen on the ground and ready for cider! […]
One of the coolest and unique projects on the farm is growing mushrooms on logs! This is a method of cultivating mushrooms by inoculating a log with mushroom plugs. This is how how you do it. Pick a log. It should be from 3-6 inches in diameter. The log should be 3-5 feet in length. Good […]
A little history of the Artichoke… The artichoke that we know and love today is thought to have come from a wild cardoon, which is native to the Mediterranean. The cardoon and artichoke are members of the thistle family (Asteraceae) which sunflowers and lettuce are also a part of. It is believed that they began […]
Walking around the Urban Farm, if you are observant and listen, you will hear the buzz of busy bees working hard to gather pollen and making our garden come alive with fruits and veggies. Our friends the bees are an essential part of the garden ecosystem. Without them and our other pollinators, we would not […]
At the Urban Farm, NP and K are three letters that we talk about often. These letters are essential to the production of the farm. When we talk about NPK, we are talking about macro nutrients. N = Nitrogen P= Phosphorus K= Potassium Without these three essential macro nutrients, the soil fertility would not be […]