Maypop, Markets and Mother's Day: Join us for our Wednesday Farm Market & Find Cute Gift Ideas for Your Mom
Updates from the Farm
Dear Friends,
A big THANK YOU to everyone who liked our posts on Instagram, participated in our Earth Day Trivia, and/ or donated to our Earth Day campaign! With your help, we were able to win a total of $650 from the Catalogue of Philanthropy and Game Genius as well as raise an additional $700 from our Earth Day campaign! This money will go to help support our pay-what-you-can model at our Farm Market to ensure that people can continue to access fresh produce as well as support our City Farmer Certificate program to train people in regenerative farming techniques. If you haven't had a chance to support our work, you can still donate here.
If you have not purchased a CSA membership with us yet, it's not too late! Buy a CSA membership today and pick up produce from June to October at our Wednesday Farm Market.
Thank you to the DC government for recognizing our contributions to advancing sustainability in the District and awarding us with the District Sustainability Award!
To see the announcement from the Mayor's office, see here.
Be sure to check out our Instagram this upcoming week as we will be hosting a scavenger hunt from May 10 - 15. We will feature an activity that you can do each day at home, out and about, and as a local trip! Tag us in your adventures and we will raffle off Common Good tote bags & other prizes to participants!
Looking for a Mother’s Day Gift?
We have a number of gift ideas:
Give your mother the gift of fresh produce throughout the season with a CSA membership, biweekly and weekly options & sliding scale fees available
Offer your mom a cute tote bag to carry around produce or whatever they want with a Common Good tote bag—3 designs available
Check out our Teespring store, with super cute farm merchandise including t-shirts of all sizes, mugs, and farm-inspired masks
With your sponsorship, your mom will receive the following:
- A Common Good City Farm tote bag of your choice
- A sponsorship certificate
- A brick on the farm marking your bed, row, or tree
- A productivity report on the production of your bed, row, or tree including what was grown and how many pounds of food were harvested!
Scenes from the Farm
Love all of the beautiful flowers in the spring! Here are the pear blossoms...
and cherry blossoms!
We created this chamber to keep our seedlings warm overnight. We are able to fit about 3 trays per rack with 11 racks total and each tray held about 50 seedlings for about 1,815 seedlings total!
Here is a deep purple bunching onion coming along.
Farm Production Manager Foster and Farm Programs Manager Marc are hand pollinating the pawpaw trees using a paintbrush and cup to collect pollen from one tree and place on the other tree.
Our City Farmer volunteers are working with the Farm Managers to transplant seedlings and prepare a bed for planting.
A City Farmer showing off a beautiful bunch of radishes just harvested.
Another City Farmer harvesting salad greens for our Wednesday Farm Market.
Shop at our Farm Market
Our weekly Farm Market has started and will run on Wednesdays from 3:30 - 6:30 pm until November 17. We will feature produce from our farm as well as produce, meat, eggs, and more from Franklin Sustainable Farms, 4P Foods, and Dreaming out Loud.
Pre-order for the Farm Market Friday noon - Wednesday 10 am for pick-up on Wednesday: https://commongoodcityfarm.square.site
And if you are excited to try some of what we will be growing, we still have CSA spaces available. Weekly or biweekly pick-ups along with a slicing scale fee.
Join our CSA
Do you want to enjoy farm-fresh produce and support the local food system?
Then join our CSA!
Our CSA will feature 7-10 produce items in each share with produce from Common Good City Farm, Franklin Sustainable Farms, and/ or Dreaming out Loud.
Register: https://2021csa.eventbrite.com/
Youth Programs Update
Check out our latest LEAF lesson videos, including Miss Juan telling the story of the Birth of Common Good City Farm! You can find them on our Instagram and YouTube.
We are having so much fun in our Wednesday Zoom lessons (like making carrot hummus sun crackers) at 4:30 every week and are planning to add in person lessons this summer.
Have a child who would enjoy our LEAF program? Sign up for more information here.
Check out our virtual farm field trip, filmed last spring and if you'd like to follow up with a live virtual field trip to Common Good- let us know!
Learn about Herbs in the Medicinal Herb Garden
Join Holly Poole-Kavana, Resident Herbalist, for a physically distant tour and introduction of the herbs in the Tricia McCauley Memorial Herb Garden in the LeDroit Community Garden.
Monday, June 7
6 - 7 pm
Free & RSVP Required: https://juneherbs.eventbrite.com
