This coming saturday, 9/8, please join us at the farm for a potluck from 4:30-6:30.
if you want to come early, we will be cleaning and trimming garlic and working in the garden from 1:30-4.

Celeriac is a variety of celery that makes bigger edible roots, and usually has shorter, tougher stalks. These stalks and leaves are packed with flavor though, and are great added to soups.

Hello everyone!

So, Xueyan, our last summer intern, left us just a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't able to post Xueyan's introduction to the farm community on this blog, so hopefully you got to know them while they were here! This is a little taste of Xueyan to say goodbye for now, with some pictures and their answers to my fun questions!

1. What vegetable are you and why? Peas, because I'm small, spherical, and fun.

hello friends,

You are invited to join us for 3 hours of fun labor, this sunday, to celebrate labor day weekend! Sunday, sept 2, 1-4pm.

We are celebrating labor for the common good, not for money, gain, competition, status, or out of fear. Lets celebrate an economy of generosity, care for the planet and others, dignity for workers, and joy in the beauty of the outdoors.

Hello Universe! This is Allyson!

Today I am beginning my blog series on medicinal plants! I have been learning as much as I can this season about medicinal plants - wild foraged, plants that I am growing intentionally, and prairie plants. So this blog focuses on a wild foraged plant (that some people may call a "weed") that I have been learning about.

#1 Dandelion!

Parts of plant used:
The whole thing!

Medicinal properties:

xueyan left just a few days ago, which is very sad,
but here is the last newsletter that they made, featuring the amazing forecasting abilities of shadowbeast the cat
also, please note that this potluck is SATURDAY august 25.

hello everyone,

we are having a wonderful and relaxing potluck tomorrow afternoon/evening
There have been some changing plans, and some misprints, so in case you read any information different - the official last word is:

SATURDAY August 25, 4:30-6:30 pm.
potluck dinner, flower picking, and bouquet making. You are encouraged to bring your own jar to take your flowers home in. All ages welcome!
at Mustard Seed Community Farm - 366 W ave, 10 miles north and 5 miles west of Ames
newsletter for the upcoming week, by allyson

Four days before my birthday, Rachel asks me if I want to do anything special. I’ve always found this question difficult to answer. I don’t have particular elegancies and hope-laden lists of requests adding up from the months where it was not my birthday. Most of the time when people ask me what I want from them I don’t know if they’d even be able to give it to me, like nondairy pumpkin pie and chocolate croissants. To Rachel I respond with the usual ‘I don’t know’. After this nonanswer she asks me if I have preferences for dinner.

hello everyone,

so many events going on! i'm trying to get all the dates for the next
month in one email so that i don't have to keep sending more notices.
It's beautiful on the farm right now - come out and visit.

7/29: POTATO DIGGING - This Sunday on the farm, help us dig potatoes
(and if we get that done, pull weeds)
take home some potatoes, and maybe a melon for your eating pleasure.
Sunday July 10am-noon, 1-3pm. We will eat lunch from noon to 1,

Dear friends,

One of my favorite things about the farm is how it brings people together, giving people whose life paths might not otherwise cross an opportunity to meet each other. Sometimes those people form meaningful, long lasting friendships; sometimes they discover they have things in common that they never would have expected; sometimes they hold drastically different views from one another, and are able to challenge and learn from each other.

We recently got to witness a very special meeting between two very special strangers: Shadowbeast and Milo.