07/23/11Student Life meets Farm Life, A Story By Jim Pfitzer
We know that you have learned about the groups that come out for field trips but what about groups that come out to work! This week the urban farm got some help from a very eager youth group that traveled all the way from Florida. Student Life is an organization that sends groups out all over the Chattanooga area to help with community service. This weeks’ group helped harvest potatoes, pick green beans, plant our last succession of tomato plants, weed and sort garlic! All things that would of taken us a week verses a few days. Though Crabtrees’ farmers work hard we could never do what we do, on this scale, without the help of volunteers.
This year we decided to plant a short growth, determinate (all ready at once) variety of tomatoes in the last succession as we are planning on picking them green so you can fry them up! We are still planting into plastic as well, it helps with the weeds if we can keep the farm dogs from running across it and tearing it up!
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| Worn out but still in good spirits! |