Spring is officially here. We received our annual visit from the Health Department. No, I don’t mean the inspection for my mobile food vending license. I still need to schedule that. I’m talking about the follow-up on an anonymous complaint about the chickens that’s become something of an annual ritual here, typically about this time of year. Continue reading Don’t Cuss the Farmer With Your Mouth Full…
March 2009
Frijolito Farm was covered by the OSU Lantern
Here’s a link to the article: “Clintonville market boasts the best in home-grown goods”
Please note, our chicken is antibiotic-free, not “antibiotic chicken” as noted in the article. Also, Osage Lane Creamery sells goat’s milk cheese, not milk and cheese.
CSA Update
The CSA is definitely going to happen…but I still haven’t worked out a planting/harvest schedule or pricing. It’s coming! I need to get at least one person signed up so I can get the tiller fixed.
The Jefferson Township Community Garden is allowing me to use about an acre of their land this year in exchange for my acting as a consultant to their other gardeners.
After Chuck Lynd of Simply Living and Michael Jones of Local Matters helpfully put us in touch with each other, generous homeowner Art Yoho and I have worked out a deal where he’ll let me use the back 3/4-acre of his property in exchange for running a community garden on his front acre. (See the previous post.) I’ll be donating a portion of my produce from Art’s land to Local Matters for distribution to food pantries.
This means I’ve got almost two acres that I’ll definitely have access to this year, so it’s time to start planning out the CSA.
I got more seeds yesterday. Here’s the list (this is in addition to what I listed previously): Continue reading CSA Update…
New Community Garden Seeking Participants
cross-posted to Local Food Columbus
Are you an apartment dweller looking for a place to garden? A gardener looking for more space than you currently have? Art Yoho has generously volunteered his front yard for the site of our new community garden. The space is about one acre on Maize Road, just a bit north of Cooke Road. We’re looking for interested people to participate.
There is no fee for participation. Wayne Shingler of Frijolito Farm will be available to help those new to gardening. Whether you’re looking to make a dent in your grocery bill or just want to give away your crop to neighbors or a food pantry, come out and play in the dirt with us this year!
Plots will be ten feet by ten feet, but if we have more plots than gardeners, you can do more than one plot. Everyone is welcome, but in the spirit of localizing our food system, preference will be given to those who live nearest to the garden if we get more interested people than we have plots available.
Special thanks to Art Yoho, Chuck Lynd, and Michael Jones for making this garden possible.
To sign up or for more information, contact Wayne at (614) 390-2692 or at wayne@frijolitofarm.com with “Maize garden” in the subject line.