What’s in the ground this week:
For all of you traditionalists, I know there is nothing better this time of the year than an annual pumpkin carving. And for all of you sustainably minded people, your jack-o-lantern is even more special when you grow the pumpkin yourself. To get that monstorous pumpkin that you can carve [...]

What’s in the ground:
Hopefully everyone’s winter greens are looking good and are safely translplanted in the ground. In our growing zone, most people are accepting the fate of barren November soil. But if you keep your transplants well mulched with salt hay (wood chips invite pests) and cover your plants with remay, espeically when they [...]

in attempt to deepen our commitment to local farm/food concerns, we are working in conjunction with farmers from virginia to central pennsylvania to produce a series of events celebrating and publicizing community supported agriculture (CSAs), farm markets and other local, sustainable initiatives.
this tour, which will take us from september 26 through october 11, is anchored [...]

What’s in the ground this week:
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we are only four weeks away from our first frost here in the northeast, our friends in the far north have even less time and our friends in the south may be breathing easy. But either way, fall is creeping [...]

greetings, friends… nicolas esposito, writer, world traveler and urban farmer local to us here in philadelphia has started a little column on our blog; a “corner”, if you will, detailing the trials and tribulations of the sustainably minded city dweller.
he’ll be posting quite often and you can read it by clicking the “notes from the [...]

What’s in the ground this week:
“Peaches in the Summer time, apples in the fall, if I can’t have local, organic fruit I won’t have none at all.”
This would have been the famous folk music adage if its creator would have ever had the displeasure of trying conventional, packaged fruit from thousands of miles away. We [...]