(for the January TWATL) What better way to start off 2012 than to start growing more of the food you serve at home! There is nothing to compare to eating a tomato fresh off the vine….or green beans picked that morning … or lettuce so fresh it tastes sweet. Better tasting and healthier too… things the folks who grow their veggies and fruit in their own plot at Skidaway Farms know firsthand. Now you too can join the Farm by renting a plot for the 2012 season which begins February 1st. Becoming a Farmer is easy with our new online […]
Daily Archives: December 31, 2011
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(for the TLA January Journal) Growing vegetables and flowers is a skill…much like learning how to swim or ride a bike….once you get it under your belt, it becomes a life skill you will use more often than you plan on. And learning about where your food comes from and how its health can keep you healthy is a valuable lesson for all our children. From the White House to Skidaway Island…kids in the garden are breaking ground and having a ball doing it! The Children’s Program at Skidaway Farms is now taking registrations for the Spring 2012 season. Come […]
(for the TWATl December 2011) Open the south gate and step one foot into Skidaway Farm and you will tread on the pathway named for Dr. Charley Caldwell…Doc Charley Lane. Yes, he was father to Skidaway Farms’ organizer, Blake Caldwell…and husband to one of the Farms largest benefactors, Nancy Dancu. He was a Harvard educated surgeon who cherished the hours he got to spend cultivating his orchards and tending the vegetables on the family farm in Danville, Kentucky. Doc Charley passed on in January 1999 but his memory is now marked at the Farm by the wide boulevard that leads […]
(for the TLA December Journal by Kathy Hardigan) Becoming a Farmer may just be that New Year’s resolution you have been looking for! What better way to improve what you eat than to grow your own fruits and vegetables…your own cornucopia of healthy things to serve your family for dinner! After a very successful first year, Skidaway Farms is preparing for 2012 by offering a new online registration system. Starting December 1st, you can sign up for a plot or a raised bed by following the step-by-step instructions at www.skidawayfarms.net where you can pay with a credit card or PayPal […]
The Governance Committee is pleased to announce that Landings resident, Jane Kollmann has been selected to become our Children’s Program Coordinator. Attracted by the weather and the longer growing season, Jane and her husband, Tom moved to the Landings from Minnesota a year ago. They tend to their two plots at the Farm as well as the Flower Garden in Section D. Jane has been prepping the four plots that make up the Children’s garden, building a brick perimeter and covering the space with hay to winter over the soil. She is busy preparing the curriculum that will […]