Where: Community Farm
When: Saturday 1-4pm
What will we be doing?
A brief workshop in planning a garden before putting shovels into the ground in an abandoned half-plot we're subletting from a community farm member. Over the rest of this and next quarter this place will serve as a workshop center for various aspects of gardening from soil development to irrigation.
Please RSVP the list if you can make it.
-N
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Garden Maps Have Been Updated
Check it out at: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0By4Q46-pSoYdZWJhZDk0ZGUtNWEzNi00MDllLWE3MGEtMDA3Y2YzNGMzMzA5&hl=en
This link is also available under "important links" on the blog.
This link is also available under "important links" on the blog.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Golf Cart Training
Hi all,
Please sign up for a 1-hour time slot for golf cart training. I'd really like to get most if not all of you up to speed on how to drive through bollards, and also show you where to pick up coffee grounds, horse manure, and campus compost. Especially as we start to speed up our compost development out on the community farm it will become important to have regular loads of manure, coffee grounds, and green waste (weeds, food scraps from catering) delivered to the farm.
Here's the doodle link, which is also posted under "important links" on the student gardener website : http://www.doodle.com/vyw9um978pyixqdm
-N
Please sign up for a 1-hour time slot for golf cart training. I'd really like to get most if not all of you up to speed on how to drive through bollards, and also show you where to pick up coffee grounds, horse manure, and campus compost. Especially as we start to speed up our compost development out on the community farm it will become important to have regular loads of manure, coffee grounds, and green waste (weeds, food scraps from catering) delivered to the farm.
Here's the doodle link, which is also posted under "important links" on the student gardener website : http://www.doodle.com/vyw9um978pyixqdm
-N
Upcoming Work Parties
Hi all,
Great job, for those of you who came out to the bed building and composting workshops. We'll be getting those four new beds up and running in Ricker and Wilbur within the next couple of weeks.
This week there will be two work parties:
Wednesday 2/17/10: planting, seeding, weeding and (potentially digging) at Ricker from 2-4pm.
Thursday: 2/18/10: building trellises at Stern; mulching stern beds A & B.
Please remember to RSVP if you're coming so I know how many tools to bring.
Also, on your own time, there is plenty of weeding to be done around the Wilbur beds. This really needs to get done ASAP before the weeds go to seed.
Happy V-day & early President's day,
-N
Great job, for those of you who came out to the bed building and composting workshops. We'll be getting those four new beds up and running in Ricker and Wilbur within the next couple of weeks.
This week there will be two work parties:
Wednesday 2/17/10: planting, seeding, weeding and (potentially digging) at Ricker from 2-4pm.
Thursday: 2/18/10: building trellises at Stern; mulching stern beds A & B.
Please remember to RSVP if you're coming so I know how many tools to bring.
Also, on your own time, there is plenty of weeding to be done around the Wilbur beds. This really needs to get done ASAP before the weeds go to seed.
Happy V-day & early President's day,
-N
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Notes for Produce Stand Sales and Inventory
Good News!!! For the past two weeks the discrepancy between our theoretical and actual revenue has substantially decreased! Last week (2/5/10) the difference was $3.08 and this week (2/12/10) our difference was ...$0.30! So lets keep this up by continuing to carefully weigh or count all our items' beginning and ending amounts, and referring to the new price list.
Our total revenue for the past two weeks was around $108. Our quarterly average revenue is roughly $117. This unfortunately still puts us in the red (last week:47.15; this week:58.10) So try to get a friend to come to the stand and purchase something. With just $50-60 more dollars of revenue we would be breaking even. That roughly translates to around 4-7 more shopping customers.
Items that were transferred were all within resonable quantities and weights.
Items that sold well last week include the following: apples, tangelos, kale, lettuce, broccoli, and beets.
However, I would not recommend harvesting the beets out on the farm for the next few weeks in order to let them grow to a larger and more desirable, selling size (at least the size of a closed fist).
For detailed information on the quantities sold for each item visit the Produce Stand Sales Summary link located in the upper right hand corner of this blog.
Also, please remember to write in your working hours on the ending disposition and labor summary sheet.
-N
Our total revenue for the past two weeks was around $108. Our quarterly average revenue is roughly $117. This unfortunately still puts us in the red (last week:47.15; this week:58.10) So try to get a friend to come to the stand and purchase something. With just $50-60 more dollars of revenue we would be breaking even. That roughly translates to around 4-7 more shopping customers.
Items that were transferred were all within resonable quantities and weights.
Items that sold well last week include the following: apples, tangelos, kale, lettuce, broccoli, and beets.
However, I would not recommend harvesting the beets out on the farm for the next few weeks in order to let them grow to a larger and more desirable, selling size (at least the size of a closed fist).
For detailed information on the quantities sold for each item visit the Produce Stand Sales Summary link located in the upper right hand corner of this blog.
Also, please remember to write in your working hours on the ending disposition and labor summary sheet.
-N
Work Party Tomorrow @ NOON!
Hi all,
This is just a reminder that we're having a work party TOMORROW (Sunday) at NOON. We'll be working out on the community farm so let's meet over by the three-bin composting system near the farm's front entrance (from the service road). Once you enter the community farm area just walk straight ahead and the composting bins will be on your left (next to the chicken coop).
After the training session on composting we'll be building beds for the gardens and having a power tool workshop.
See you tomorrow!
Nicole
This is just a reminder that we're having a work party TOMORROW (Sunday) at NOON. We'll be working out on the community farm so let's meet over by the three-bin composting system near the farm's front entrance (from the service road). Once you enter the community farm area just walk straight ahead and the composting bins will be on your left (next to the chicken coop).
After the training session on composting we'll be building beds for the gardens and having a power tool workshop.
See you tomorrow!
Nicole
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