Although the wet and cold spring has slowed the planting and growth down, our fields are still full of abundance.  Lettuce and salad greens glowing in their beds. Kale, chard, broccoli, cabbage, and asian greens beginning to bulk up with the longer days.  Onions and garlic just starting to form heads, and the carrots and beets vigorously growing green with the promise of thick roots ahead.

It has been a spring filled with helping hands at Soil Sisters farm, and revelations and tales told amid the digging and amending.   So much of Living Lands Network is about creating community, and this has been truly in evidence with the successful volunteer days, awesome interns, and wonderful friends who lend their hands in a myriad of ways.  We are so excited to create and generate more community involvement with the upcoming membership drive and farm tour.  Hopefully more friendships can be made over this passion we all feel toward growing nourishing food for ourselves and our loved ones.

Willow

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Your Farmer,

Tim Van Wagner

That was a great day at Harmony Valley today. We got a lot done thanks to all the helping hands. The fence is almost done and the perennial plantings are realling starting to take form. We’re going to figure out which day works best as a “set” volunteer day….which will be easier when the weather is more predictable in the spring and summer.

Thanks again and we’ll see you again soon!

One of your farmers,

Tim

We still have CSA shares available for this season! We are going to have so much delicious produce, fruit, and flowers that’ll make you cry they are so pretty!  Sign up by going to the CSA section and downloading the form.  Send it our way and you’re in! Tell your friends too, we need more of our community supporting local farms directly, that way we can grow more farmers and more farms for Nevada County!

Can’t wait to hear from you,

Maisie

I just wanted to let you know that we still have space in our gardening workshops. The first class was this past Saturday but it’s not too late to join in on the fun.

We’ve got a great little group of passionate aspiring gardeners. We went over a lot of the beginning-of-the-season things, planted a bunch of kale, chard, and collards in the green house and then enjoyed a great lunch prepared by In The Kitchen – Jim Gates’ free range ground beef meatloaf, greens from the garden, squash, and a nice carrot vinegar salad!

If you’re interested email me at tim_van_wagner@hotmail.com

Spring is around the corner!

Farmer Tim