Who Says It's Too Cold?

Today was another chilly day on the farm, so we mostly focused on greenhouse work, planting our first round of tomatoes for starts later in the season. Last week though was a big week out in the fields. Despite the cold weather we planted 75 lbs of onions and 10 lbs of snap peas--quite the haul! Below Tyler and Craig carefully bury the baby onions, and our excellent volunteer Aaron, lugs a bucket of onions to the end of the row to start planting.




Things are starting to shape up in the green house, which is a welcome reminder that spring really is on her way. Check out the growth of our Kohlrabi! The first picture is from last Wednesday, and the second one is from this morning--I think this bodes well for our harvest!

Plugging In the Fields

Dear Farm Friends,

You may have noticed Red Wiggler's blog undergoing a few unusual transformations in the past week or so. Here on the farm, we're trying to become a little more tech-brilliant and make our blog more beautiful, more exciting, and easier to use. We must admit, though we're pretty darn good at hooking up irrigation, when it comes to hooking up to the wonders of the web, we can be a little clumsy. So we hope you'll bear with us as we learn this process and work to bring you more enjoyable insights into the daily workings of our small community farm.
Take a minute while you're here to check out some of our new excellent features, like:
The Mind Boggling Links to Amazing Organizations Doing Great Work
The Tel! a Friend Feature that let's you brag to everyone about the awesome things you just learned at Red Wiggler.

More is coming soon, so we hope you'll keep reading us as we grow!

Sincerely,

Red Wiggler

2009 Season Calendar

I'd like to buy some tractor seeds

Today more seeds went in in our little green house and some tiny snapdragons poked their heads out of the potting soil. Later Adrienne and Michelle wrangled with the tractor. If only we could grow our own replacement parts!

Job Opening With Red Wiggler!

Dear All,

One of our Growers' well-loved job coaches is retiring, and now the ARC of Montgomery County http://www.arcmontmd.org searching for someone to fill her big shoes.

The job coach would provide employment support to a small crew of adults with developmental disabilities who are employed with Red Wiggler Community Farm. Though the job coach would be hired and employed by the ARC, he or she would spend the majority of each work day here on Red Wiggler Community Farm.

The full job description can be found on Idealist:

http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/Search/search?assetTypes=Job&keywords=red%20wiggler&keywordsAsString=red%20wiggler&languageDesignation=en

We hope that you'll take a look at the position description and send it to your friends who share a love of farming, the great outdoors, and serving adults with developmental disabilities.

Greenhouse Work

Planting some flower seeds to get a jump on the season.






Last week our water was a little tied up, so we tried to improvise a bit.