- Thanks to Botanical Interests for providing fantastic seeds for the gardeners. These were definitely a hit.
- Things gardeners brought and swapped included bean and carrot seeds, and raspberry divisions.
- The swappers toured the garden paths in the drizzle - an area of over 1 acre with about 120 active plots.
- We ate 2 loaves of my pumpkin bread.
The topic of discussion was - gardening. This included:
- Gretta had lots of Late Blight advice. I'll put this in a separate post.
- Improving local food availability: Gretta would like to see a local grain and dried bean CSA and is looking for land. In our area, we now have a number of vegetable and meat farms, but no grains are local. This would require not only land and farmers, but a mill.
- How to improve communication at the community garden. We haven't been very successful with our Yahoo b-board. We're thinking of trying a blog/Facebook format. Plus a Scout will soon construct a non-virtual bulletin board for us.
Not true, not true! We have a grain and bean CSA now! It's out of Amherst! We signed up for a half a share this year, and are getting 75 lbs of grains and beans soon - we'll be so inundated - at least they keep better than greens!
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I'm desperate for a honey csa though - if you can pass on the word, we'll be the first to sign up if they bring one to Belmont!
Great! I will look into this too. Though Amherst is not really local.
ReplyDeleteConsidering it's the only grain grown in new england on any scale in decades - and it's within 100 miles - I consider it pretty local - I'm thrilled! We might have to get the mill attachment for the mixer! :)
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