Monday 7/4 CSA pickup will be TUESDAY instead!
Because of the holiday. Same time, just different day. Thursday pickups are unaffected. Happy 4th of July!
Farm-to-Table Yoga Dinner June 18th
Come join us this summer at Growing Heart Farm for the Farm-to-Table Yoga Dinner series. Spend a relaxing day at the farm and indulge in the best of the harvest season. Stretch out in the sunshine with a yoga class lead by teacher and farmer, Abby Paloma. Following yoga, nourish your body with an “ultra-ganic” […]
Eco-Building Day with Green Bus Tour: Yurt Raising, Irrigation set up and Bonfire
Eco-Building Day: Yurt Raising, Farm activites & Bonfire @ the Growing Heart Farm Saturday, May 28th 2011 – 10:30 am – 1:00 am Join the Green Bus on a trip to visit our friends at the Growing Heart Farm in Pawling, NY. We will be taking part in an all-day retreat and farm-volunteer convergence. We […]
Earthship tire building
First we put the tires all in place and started filing the tires with dirt. These tires will be the support for a platform for our Yurt. Then we used sledge hammers to ram the dirt to fill the tires. Hard work… 10 plus buckets of dirt per tire later we leveled the tires to […]
CSA member check-in
We’re getting everything squared away for our first CSA delivery (soon!), so we want to make sure everyone is receving emails so they know when the 1st pick-up will be. On May 6th we sent out a “welcome to the CSA” newsletter. Some of you haven’t opened it yet, which has us worried it is […]
Growing Heart Farm Logo Contest!
We only just recently decided on a name for the farm (after living with the land for a year, seeing what the personality was like and simply going by “The Farm.”). This is year 2 and we’re happy to be growing into the name Growing Heart Farm! There are a lot of talented artists and […]
WORKSHOP – Sustainable Building: Rammed Earth Tire Construction
This Saturday 5/14 from 2-5pm we will explore rammed earth tire construction. Old tires litter the planet and pollute our communities. Architect Mike Reynolds has pioneered a method for turning waste tires into valuable building materials. We will discuss the characteristics of tire bricks and explore the possibilities that this building method has to offer for sustainable […]
Beautiful Bees’ Wax – Sooner Than Expected
This is the second week of having honeybees! And already a lot has happened. It’s actually still a bit chilly for the bees sometimes. Last weekend when I went to take out the queen cages the bees were huddled in a cluster and I didn’t want to disturb them. Hmmm… that sentence is going to […]
Rainy Day Flower Planting
Today was the day for planting annual flower seeds in little starter trays in the greenhouse! (Tomorrow will have to be the day for planting potatoes out in the field – if it ever stops raining!) This year we are offering a flower CSA as well as the veggie CSA, and we maybe got a […]
