Urban Farm Raising event UPDATE

As of now, everything is STILL ON for both Saturday and Sunday so keep those registrations coming!  We’re building a nice group of volunteer participants and it’s shaping up to be a really fantastic weekend.

WAIT–volunteer participants, you say?  I thought this was an instructional weekend full of free farming and gardening workshops–did I sign up to volunteer??  With apologies to Ricky Ricardo, lemme ‘splain:

All workshops are HANDS-ON.  We (you, me, everyone who shows up) are turning an under-utilized, sun-drenched urban lot into productive farmland!  That means we’ll all be getting our hands dirty and our backs sweaty.  (It’s okay, no one will mind the smell–we’re all farmers/gardeners, too.)  There’s no better teacher than experience, after all!  Most workshops will be held “in the field” while simultaneously accomplishing a task, e.g. in the Machinery and Tools for Farm and Garden Use, Steve Martinez will demonstrate the use of an auger to dig holes for a fence, along with smaller hand tools such as a CobraHead, shovel, pitchfork, and who knows what else; during the Chicken Coop Building workshop, Paige Hill will help you actually build a chicken coop on the property; in the two Soil Building workshops with Steven Hebbard, volunteer/participants will first clear the land in the community garden area, then build up the soil for better crop production.

In other words, please come prepared for a dirt-y experience–no seminars or Power Points here!  We’ll have all the tools available, but you may want to bring a pair of gloves.  And don’t forget your water bottle!

PLEASE CONSIDER CAR-POOLING, as this IS a residential location!!!

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THUNDERBIRD COFFEE added to the event sponsors list–both Saturday and Sunday morning this sweet local coffee shop will be providing us with ICED COFFEE to wash down our delicious home-cooked breakfast!

Sunday morning, we’ll be giving away a CobraHead garden weeding tool to one lucky volunteer, thanks to a generous offer from the folks at CobraHead.  Be sure to put your name in the drawing!

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