Lunch and Learn with Souper Jenny

There is so much to catch up on! The past month has been a bit wild with my computer in crash mode and my soul in replenishment mode. The blogosphere has been a distant reality that I have been keeping at a distance for no good reason. Well, my intention is to be more disciplined about blogging in general and specifically focusing on more practical information about how to grow your organic garden. I also just bought a Flip camera so keep an eye out for some fun video coming soon (as soon as I learn how to use it!). I have been pretty good about twittering as that only relies on me having my iPhone around, which is way too often for the good of my auric field. Check me out on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Farmer_D. The photo here is from a really great Lunch and Learn Souper Jenny and I recently did at her house. We put in four raised bed gardens 4'x8' and Jenny prepared a delicious lunch for the participants to chow down on while I broke down some knowledge on putting in an organic Spring garden. We are already planning a harvest lunch and learn follow up at her house for September. We are also finally getting some workshops on the calendar for July, which you can sign up for at http://www.farmerd.com/product/garden_workshops/farmer_d_workshops.

Spring harvest

A bed of yummy lettuce and onions ready to harvest! These beautiful veggies are growing out of one of our raised beds that is set right alongside Briarcliff Rd.

Abundant Spring

Not much time for blogging these days as you can tell. We have been pleasantly busy setting up gardens at homes, schools, community gardens, restaurants and of course at our retail store on Briarcliff & Lavista. We are thrilled with the positive responses we are getting both from our retail & online customers as well as all the successful Gardeners who are using our biodynamic soil & cedar raised beds. To keep up with my business, check out Farmer_d on twitter. I'll be linking lots of new photos of recent gardens and events here on the blog as well as at farmerd.com. Check out our in the new section on the web to see our recent press on CNN, Fox 5 and South Magazine. Thanks for joining us on greening the Southeast! Be sure to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week by starting a new pile, turning an old one or come to our store and get some compost to spread all over!

Breaking ground on the Greyfield Inn Farm

Greyfield Inn Garden Transformation photo blog. The food grown here will be used by the chefs at the inn and will serve as a farm-to-table venue for guest chefs and farmers. In addition to the intense garden work that got done, we had a few animal spirit encounters from a bee sting therapy session to a leg-less lizard.

Blog Bomb

It has been weeks since I last blogged and that is for a few reasons. One, I do not have internet in my new house and two because I have been so busy it keeps getting put off. So, I am about to drop a blog bomb with a bunch of photos of recent projects. The past week has been a blur of goodness starting with the Georgia Organics conference and leading into a series of garden installs, farm visits/consults and kids gardening programs around Atlanta and Savannah.





Photos in order.
-Kindergardeners from Savannah Country Day School planting potatoes at Hampton Island
-The Farm team at Grefyfield Inn, Cumberland Island
-Farmer D heading over to Cumberland Island by Ferry with his organic veggie plants
-Seed planting workshop at Farmer D Organics Garden Center
-Pike's Nursery in Buckhead stocking up on Farmer D Raised Beds
-Jewish Funds For Justice volunteers from Vermont working on the Avondale farm in Savannah, planting a row for the hungry

Hoop House is Up!

It's nothing fancy, but our new hoop house is going to be very helpful for stepping up plug flats of veggies, herbs and flowers into bigger pots for sale. This hoop house is about as economical as you can get. It's made from cattle fence panels, 2x6's and rebar with a standard 6-mil cover. Total cost of materials was at about $500 before end walls, which we will construct with plywood and 2x4's. We have plenty of potting up to do with our thousands of baby plants here now that need more space to stretch their roots and leaves out. Today we will be potting up Cracoviensis lettuce, Chinese Cabbage, Lacinato Kale and Packman Broccoli from 200 cell plugs into 2.5" coconut fiber pots. If you are looking to get your hands dirty we are trading labor for store credit to people who can help us do some potting.

Farmer D Compost in Pike's Nursery!

It's a dream come true! Farmer D Organics Biodynamic Blend Organic Compost is now officially available at Pike's Nursery in Charlotte, NC! We are thrilled to be a part of the new Pike's team and being a partner in their pursuit of sustainability. You can now find a wide range of organic products at Pike's stores, including Farmer D Organics compost and cedar raised beds! Our new friend, Jaiy Geno (pictured here with D) is excited to start educating Pike's customers about the value of compost, raised beds and organic/biodynamic practices along with our closed loop story of taking agricultural and food residuals and transforming them into Biodynamic Compost for the soil. Farmer D Organics compost and raised bed 'Gardens to Go' will be available at all 16 Pike stores in the next few weeks so drop in and check us out!