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 […]
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 […]
Currently Listening: Elder – Lore Compost tea is a wonderful thing. We could get real technical here, but lets keep it simple. In essence, the idea is that you have sugar and inoculated compost and we fed it to the tomato plants on the new bed that has brand new soil and hardly any organics […]