Our fall appeal is still underway, so please keep us in mind for your seasonal giving to support our important work! Donate Here Winter Sowing Workshop: Join us on Saturday, January 17 from 10AM-12PM to learn how to start seeds for your garden or hedgerow on your own timeline without any fancy growing equipment! This propagation method ... Click to read more.
Upcoming Events: Elderberry Workshop: Join us this Saturday, November 8th at 10AM for an informational workshop hosted by Abbie Sewall that will cover planting, growing, propagating, harvesting, and processing elderberries into syrup for fortified winter immunity. Abbie’s favorite syrup recipes will also be shared. Abbie’s goal is to turn all of us into Maine elderberry growers! Abbie Sewall ... Click to read more.
Dear Growing to Give Community, The leaves are turning, the sweet potatoes have been dug and winter squash harvested, cover crops have been sown, and we have already had four killing frosts! Needless to say, the seasonal shift into fall has been busy, and we’ve been missing the help of our energetic interns and ... Click to read more.
Hello Dear Growing to Give Community, These are truly the golden days of summer. The mornings now carry a whisper of fall in their coolness and that special slant of the light. Flowers bloom all around and monarchs dance above their petals. These last few weeks on the farm have been quieter than usual without ... Click to read more.
Hello, Growing To Give Community! You know it’s really peak summer when you’ve started picking tomatoes and peppers and can’t quite keep up with harvesting the beans! Our cucumbers are unfortunately not producing very much - the plants contracted bacterial wilt, a cucumber beetle borne disease, that slowly took them out despite our best efforts ... Click to read more.
Hello, Growing To Give Community! Let’s take a moment for the flowers! Our annual flower beds have just started producing the first blooms of pale pink cosmos, fanciful white orlaya, strawberry blonde calendula, and a few early bright zinnia heads. In our hedgerows and wildflower gardens, the regal purple spiderwort, magenta ninebark, wild foxgloves, cheery ... Click to read more.
Hello, Growing To Give Community! I’m sitting down to write the farm report and am entirely overwhelmed by how much has happened at the farm in the last month. I will do my best to start writing more frequently to keep you updated on the everchanging activities at the farm. I also invite you all ... Click to read more.
If you come by the farm on a spring morning, you will drive down the winding dirt driveway through rolling green hills. The golden morning light catches in each dewdrop and glows through the translucent walls of the high tunnels. You’ll be greeted at the green Garden Shed before joining the morning’s mixed crew of ... Click to read more.
After these last spring snows, we are well and truly on the path toward warmer days. The daffodils are shooting up, and the sounds of birdsongs fill our mornings. We started opening up our volunteer calendar the first week of April and have been delighted to see so many new and returning volunteers already! It’s ... Click to read more.
The Spring Equinox has come and gone, and though it is decidedly wintry as I write this, just last week it was 100F in the hoop houses! In the seedling trailer, newly sprouted storage onions, cabbage, and lettuces are bringing us joy and hope on these gray spring days. We can’t wait to have you ... Click to read more.
