I think it was one year ago this week that we broke ground at the Acadia Farm, and…the space has transformed pretty significantly since those fateful days with a sod cutter.
Interest in the community garden has skyrocketed: from 3 community plots to 40. Our cultivated space at the main field has grown from 8,000 sq.ft. to 16,000. We’ve started a 600 sq.ft. garden for the food bank. We’ve taken on an additional garden on Ridge Road for another 6,000 sq.ft. or so. We’ve even figured out how we can cook the books to hire employees!! Changes, yes, but the goal remains the same: learn food by doing food. These new directions and new projects for the Community Farm are engaging with a new set of skills and a new set of connections, it’s exciting stuff and it gets more exciting the more we share it.
That said, come share with the Farm! We’re in the thick of two big projects – planting and programming. Stefan is churning out workshop opportunities as we try to fill up our summer/fall program schedule (read below), and the rest of us are trying to get our transplants in the ground. We’ve made great progress so far (the squash and the leeks are in) but still have beds to construct and seeds to sow.
If you’re keen to get involved with the Farm, drop us a line at info @ acadiafarm.org, and we’ll hook you up on our mailing list that we use to notify folks of volunteer opportunities, events, and the like. Or stop by for our collaborative gardening days: Wednesdays at 4 and Sundays at 2. Make friends and make next month’s dinner! What could be finer?
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