One Farmer’s acorn squash and fall tomato plants have geminated on her kitchen window sill…getting ready to move to larger pots before their final trip to the Farm in September. The soil temperature is a perfect 76 degrees inside the air-conditioning! Other Farmers continue to harvest their bounty of okra, eggplant and peppers as the days of August unwind slowly towards Labor Day. Second Harvest donations continue to impress the folks at this wonderful charity… this past weekend the Farm collected 32 pounds of vegetables from those of you who remain so generous with your extra food! The Farm’s total […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Two of your fellow- Farmers have purchased a gas tiller for use at the Farm and are offering their tilling services if you are in need of such. Cost is: $25 per plot that has been prepped for tilling (plants and drip systems cleared). An additional fee will be added if your plot needs more prep work. Call: Joe Tyson at 598-8765 or Tom Rosen at 598-4028 to make arrangements. Thanks for offering your help, guys! (8/30/12)
On a very hot and humid morning, several Landings Garden Club members visited the Farm to collect flowers, herbs and baby vegetables. Jane Kollmann, the Farm’s Children’s Coordinator, had offered these ladies the chance to harvest what was left in her plots so they could create floral centerpieces. These would be used to decorate the tables at a luncheon for the Garden Club of Georgia’s Oleander District Board which was held at the Plantation Club on August 1. Meg Bremer, Anne Gardner and Anne Guira created the beautiful baskets with the help of Sandra Wolf and Lisa Hall. These wonderful […]
You’ve outdone yourselves! We are very proud and happy to report that this past weekend was our biggest haul yet! Second Harvest was so very pleased to see our basket coming their way on Sunday… 26 lbs of eggplants, okra, carrots, all kinds of peppers and even a small watermelon! What your efforts mean to those families who need a bit of help like this is indescribable….so rest tonight knowing that you have made a difference this week for those folks who need your help! Nice job y’all…well done, you! (8/6/12)
That’s what the Chef at Second Harvest exclaimed with delight when this weekend’s Farm donations were delivered. Actually, we could barely get through the door before the Chef ran to meet us! Such a welcome! Those of you who graciously donated your veggies and fruit this time contributed to the 31 pounds of produce that was met with such glee by the folks at Second Harvest…that’s a total of 111 pounds of produce that our participating Farmers have donated….that goes a long way towards helping families in need! Let’s keep this going for as long as we can…so find something […]
(For the TLA August Journal) The fall is the best time to get your hands into the soil and learn about growing your own vegetables and fruit. The weather is more pleasant… the sand-gnats aren’t around as much… and the coolness of the night air inspires all those cool-weather crops to flourish. So if you have been pondering for a while about becoming a Farmer… or you just want to be shown how to thin rows of carrots or the best way to grow lettuce… come join Jane Kollman this September at the Farm. Jane is looking for folks who […]
Not to alarm y’all but just to warn you… One Farmer’s recent sighting of a swamp rat in his plot vexed him so…until he saw the solution the next day in the slithering body of a black snake that had sensed the presence of the rat and had come to pay it a visit. Nature has its way of balancing things rather nicely…if only we humans would let it work its magic. Impatient creatures we humans are … which would account for the knee-jerk reaction of this Farmer to try to kill the rat…something he wasn’t able to do… and […]