The WindHill community farmers have been hard at work getting the farm ready for planting. Here are a few shots from last week’s work party and a photo of one of the beds already planted and producing!
One of the community farm beds - looking good!
Jerry mowing down the weeds
Fresh May 3rd THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Sorry for any inconvenience, but this event has been cancelled. Thanks.
Location to be announced 7pm
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
My Father’s Garden April 2nd Welles Turner Library, friends room 6pm In less than fifty years the face of agriculture has been utterly transformed by synthetic chemicals which have had a serious impact on the environment and on the health … Continue reading
Wind Hill Community Farm is currently offering 24 (4ft x 12ft) raised beds for the 2012 season which we lease out to families interested in growing organic vegetables for their home use. We are a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage people
to re-engage with the land, learn where their food comes and support local farmers. We are a working vegetable farm whose aim is to serve the families of Glastonbury by offering then hands-on experiences at the Farm as well as a source for local, organic produce. And we are an educational center offering programming for groups of all ages in Glastonbury about our existing food system, the benefits of home gardening, eating locally and seasonally and preparing, cooking and preserving local produce. We also donate a portion of our produce to local food banks.
Our community garden offers people the opportunity to access a small garden in full sun, with well-prepared soil, as well as the opportunity to meet and exchange information with other gardeners, join others at organic gardening classes, get-togethers and our harvest dinner in the Fall. The price of the garden bed is $75.00. In addition to a spring/summer crop, you will be able to plant a fall crop to continue gardening throughout the end of 2012.
You will need to make a commitment to use only “organic” supplements in your garden bed. If you have an interest, we will have work parties at which you may volunteer your time to make additional improvements to the Community Garden area.
If you are interested in reserving a garden bed, or if you’d like additional
information, please contact Barbara at 860 657 4345. If you decide to reserve a garden bed, you will be asked to send in your check payable to “Wind Hill Community Farm” to Barbara Wagner, 2225 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT 06033 or just drop it in my mailbox.
Hope you can join us!
We have set up a twitter account so that we can keep people up to date about our events, programs and, most importantly, late-breaking farm news with weather and varmint reports. Meant to inform and, hopefully, make you smile. Please join us. Just go to twitter. com and sign up for @windhillfarm.
New organic, sustainable community-based farm serving fresh, local produce to the Glastonbury community
Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA · http://windhillfarm.org
