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.
Happy February to you all! I feel like I blinked and all of a sudden we’re midway through winter. Though the farm is nestled snugly under a blanket of snow, all of us at G2G have been busy preparing for the year to come. As the brand new Farm Director, I’ve been spending a lot ... Click to read more.
The Passing of the Chard (aka the Torch) It’s been a busy fall for all of us at Growing to Give. We were pleasantly surprised by the continuation of the growing season. Every day has been like a gift. Warm sunshine kept us harvesting crops like leeks, sweet potatoes, collards, chard, Hakurei salad turnips, spinach, ... Click to read more.
The colors of harvesting in August. The August harvest brings about a special excitement. It awakens our senses to the taste, sight and smell of vegetables we haven’t had for a year. We always long for those first tomatoes picked in the warm sunshine destined for salads or sandwiches. Sungold cherry tomatoes popped directly into ... Click to read more.
Greetings everyone! I want to share some good news about Genevieve, our Farm Coordinator. She has been accepted to the University of New Hampshire, where she plans to study ecology, starting in the spring semester 2025. This young woman has blossomed from a quiet, observant Farm Skills Training Program participant in 2022, to the smiling, ... Click to read more.
We grow a lot more than vegetables! We grow community! I was struck this week, getting ready for our Farmyard Jam, with the amount of pride that was evident all around me. I only needed to remind our crew that this was our moment in the sun, so to speak, for the 2024 growing season. ... Click to read more.
We are sprucing up the joint! Yes, it’s the week before the Farmyard Jam. We are catching up on our laundry and some trim painting on our sheds. We are giving it our best effort to impress all who come to be part of this fun community event. For those of you unfamiliar with our ... Click to read more.
What’s all the buzz about? What would you think the volunteers are most excited about on the farm so far this growing season? Could it be that we have already donated almost 400 heads of delicious organic lettuce? Or maybe it was Bob dropping off an early Christmas gift that made the interns smile? Everyone ... Click to read more.
Using the power of the sun and the power of our volunteers! June is always a busy time for us at G2G: Getting the last of our early-season seedlings in the ground, directly seeding more carrots, amaranth and greens, getting the kinks out of our irrigation system, and trying to keep up with all that ... Click to read more.
