First Week of Pickups, by Angela

Beautiful Romaine lettuces

Our first week of pickups was a wild one, with rain "book-ending" our Monday and Friday.

865-gal. rain-harvesting tank irrigating the
sunflower patch

Great fun to have everyone back on the farm and feel the farm come alive again. Joanne worked with kids in the children's garden on Tuesday, planting and exploring.

Joanne with Lily and her mom Caroline smelling herbs

We also had a visit from the third-graders at Drexel Neumann Academy, which was lively and delightfully loud.  Ahhh, the transplanting continues as my brain sprawls in a few million different directions peacefully, as we move into the time of just nurturing our growing crops.

Brendan & Josh transplanting summer
squashes

Children's Tours of the Farm, by Joanne

Do your children know where their food comes from?  Do they understand the differences between  conventional and organic food?  Or the importance of that?  Our new Farm Educator, Joanne Rosenbaum, is coordinating tours that take about an hour, discuss/demonstrate the principles of organic growing, include visits to the fields & hoop houses, as well as the chickens, children's garden, & compost heap, & provide a seedling to take home!  There are additional lessons on specific topics (see poster below). We cater to children's ages & conform to PA learning standards. For more info, contact Joanne Rosenbaum at 610-558-5396, or email Jrosenbaum@osfphila.org. We're at the corner of Legion Road and Red Hill Road (click here for map), just across Red Hill Road from the large convent of the Sisters of St. Francis (Our Lady of Angels). You also can check our website at www.redhillfarm.org!

Poster by Joanne