Spring Volunteers

A group of students from Truthville Christian Academy in Grandville, NY visited the farm and helped out tremendously this month! We planted over 600ft of potatoes, manured and weeded several hundred feet of beds and spread chips on the paths in both greenhouses and strawberry beds! They were an awesome help! Thanks everyone!

How to turn Lawn into a Lush Garden:

Ingredients: -Newspapers -Manure -Grass clippings How to: This is only one of many ways to take sod and easily turn it into a lush garden. First you collect newspapers…lots and lots of newspapers. These are layered over grass that has just been cut short. Layer them 5-6 ply thick. The more the less likely weeds…

Black Gold

While the soil is frosty and under two feet of snow there is still some unfrozen soil to cultivate. Our chickens have produced quite a quantity of manure soaked bedding which we have added to our growing compost pile. In addition to kitchen scraps and buckets of coffee grounds procured at a local resort the…