This is an event that will delight all your senses! Come eat good food and pick and arrange flowers with us!!
Saturday, August 13- 6pm-dusk (8 or 8:30ish)

This workshop will be led by our flower team powerhouse: Jen, dahlia growing extraordinaire, and Jules, professional award winning florist!
you can come to just the potluck (6-7pm)
or just for the flower arranging workshop (7-8ish)
or enjoy the whole evening of sensory delight!
RSVP would be greatly appreciated.

Here's a re-visit of an old poster for this year's SEED SAVING CLASS. (Poster and class by Alice McG)

WHY would you want to learn to SAVE SEEDS?
- To save money
- To better care for and get to know our amazing plant kin
- To continue this intergenerational relationship between humans, plants, and food
- To preserve heritage crops and genetic diversity
- To grow crops particularly suited to your area and climate
- To adapt in real time to climate change

2 CLASSES THIS WEEK - FOOD PRESERVATION ON WED 7/20 AND MORE WILD HERBALISM SAT 7/23
RSVP BY EMAIL OR TEXT: mustardseedbee@gmail.com 978-471-8414

FARM CLASSES - We have a small farm class every week for our interns and there's space for a few more people to come join us. These are mostly on Wednesday afternoons at 1pm and RSVP is needed.
6/29 - SOIL SCIENCE with Amber Anderson
7/20 - FOOD PRESERVATION with Lonna Nachtigal and Donna Pritzgintas from the Lonna Donna Kitchen Show

hello all,

We have some exciting upcoming events!
THIS SATURDAY: 6/25, 9:30am WILD HERBALISM WORKSHOP - at the mustard seed community farm. Walk around the farm with herbalist Nancy Beatty and learn how to identify and use many wild plants. RSVP NEEDED - limit 15 people.

7/1 Friday - PUBLIC HEALTH - Potluck and Roundtable discussion with Sieglinde Prior - all are welcome.

FARM CLASSES - We have a small farm class every week for our interns and there's space for a few more people to come join us. These are mostly on Wednesday afternoons at 1pm and RSVP is needed.

We will be having a potluck on the farm
this Saturday, 5/28 at 5pm
and another one
Friday 6/10 at 6pm.

At the moment, there's no special topic or activity, just a fun gathering to celebrate the start of the season, to welcome our new interns, and to enjoy each other's company.

peace,
alice mcgary
mustard seed community farm

Saturday May 14th 10am-noon, Romero House in Ames, Seed and Plant Sharing event - bring any seeds and plants to share and take home some fun new things to plant in your garden. it's ok to just come and get plants even if you don't have any to share - share your company and wonderful selves! We had plenty of plants last year. We will also have our beginning garden kits available to take home. If you are able to label your plants and seeds - that's very helpful!

Things are VERY SLOWLY warming up!
Today I almost saw the sun a few times. (written on monday)
here's a flashback picture to 2010??2012? with Ashley and Rooney (the sun was actually shining back in 2010)

2 things in this post -
1. general schedule of times to help on the farm - please RSVP
2. Workshare schedule starting next week with 2 weeks of training shifts - please RSVP
3. May 14: 10-noon Don't forget the seed and plant sharing event at Romero House (see blog post below)

SCHEDULE CHANGE - NO WORKDAY THIS SATURDAY 4/23
Yes - we are cancelling another saturday work day!! Today, chance of storm all day and the farm is crazy muddy from all the rain we got already. Luckily, we got a lot of urgent things done over the past few days - planted rhubarb, asparagus, and blackberries, and we are going to wait to plant most of our spring crops until the soil warms up some more - probably early May. IT's been a weird COLD spring!

SCHEDULE CHANGE - NO WORKDAY THIS SATURDAY 4/16

We are excited to talk about Food and Community! Amy Miller and Alice will be presenting with Ajay Nair on tuesday april 19th. We will be talking about the many benefits of growing, cooking, eating, and sharing local food. We will also have mini garden kits available with 4 easy to grow plants that can be planted mid-April. (it will be Kale, chard, broccolini, and maybe something else)