Workday: April 14th Spring Harvest!

During our morning workday this past Saturday, April 13, 2013, we broke a record.  36 families showed up, our biggest turnout to date.

Volunteers again came at 9:30 to help Larry organize and then supervise the tasks. Many thanks to Wayne and Jane.  When everyone arrived at 10:00 we accomplished all the work in an hour:

Planted turnip seeds, radish seeds, beet seeds, and arugula seeds.  Meaghan brought heirloom Mizuma seeds which are an Oriental or Mustard Green. These were interplanted among the leeks.  Future plantings of Mizuma will interplanted in the broccoli and Swiss chard beds. Fava beans were planted a month ago but it doesn't look like they all germinated.  More were ordered and arrived from Italy, and we'll be filling in bald spots during the next few weeks. 

The wood chip brigade continued to move the chips onto the garden paths and only about one row remains to be finished.

Weeding was done in the beds and garden paths.  

Spinach and kale were harvested along with chives and some cilantro. The kale had begun to bolt and the bed was cleaned out and prepared for future plantings. Not only did all 36 families partake of the harvest but there was still two buckets of spinach that we donated to Our Daily Bread.  Thank you to Phoebe for making the delivery.