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Category: Medway field

Posted on May 15, 2020August 15, 2020

Aurelia’s Garden in Medway

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  • Medway field
  • Planting
  • Wayland field

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  • Our First Harvest!!
  • Planting Tomatoes
  • Installing Our Electric Deer Fence
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A little yoga at the farm as we experiment with be A little yoga at the farm as we experiment with bending PVC pipes for a caterpillar tunnel! Really proud of these ladies, and all our volunteer farming force here @aurelias.garden! It's been a season of growth in many many ways. With many years of gardening skills, most of our team is new to farming and the extra level of commitment, dedication, and exertion it requires. Through 97 degree days, drought, lightning and hail, frosty mornings and drizzly afternoons, we have not wavered! Getting season extension strategies in place, we plan to harvest ur organic produce for @opentablema through Thanksgiving and into the early winter!
Today, and forever more, we humbly acknowledge the Today, and forever more, we humbly acknowledge the Pawtucket Tribe, member of the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose ancestral lands we now farm. We respect the plants surrounding the field as representatives of Indigenous foodways. We commit to finding ways to give back to both the land and indigenous peoples whose ancestors were forced from this place, and build an inclusive community growing for the well-being of us all.
Our dedicated team hard at work in the plot we cre Our dedicated team hard at work in the plot we created and maintain in service to @medwaycommunityfarm and the Medway MA community! Harvests continue through the gorgeous October sunshine as we concurrently prep several of the beds for winter! We still have beautiful #organicvegetables #turnips #lettice #kohlrabi #bunchingonions #cabbage #organictomatoes #basil (yes, we still have BASIL growing strong!) #radishes #carrots #polebeans and #spinach! Soon to be planted: #garlic and #shallots
Harvesting the last of winter squashes ahead of ou Harvesting the last of winter squashes ahead of our second bought of frosty nights! These nutritious beauties will be cured in our hoophouse before sending to @opentablema in a couple of weeks. We grew several varieties in the Butternut genre including Waltham, @turtle_tree_seed butternut, honeynut from @hudsonvalleyseedco , butterscotch, sugar baby, and the Italian heirloom Rogosa Violina. Grown with love by our incredible volunteer farming team @elsegreene @kathy.martin.315428 @deeleysan
We love our farm critters! We carefully marked sev We love our farm critters! We carefully marked several turtle nests while prepping the field this spring! Finally, some babies are hatching! Here, our first baby turtle, Oliver, making his way to the nearby Mill Brook! Good luck little guy! #snapper #snappingturtle #babyturtle #organicagriculture #ecologicalfarming
We not only grow organic vegetables to donate to @ We not only grow organic vegetables to donate to @opentablema we also work very hard to help OTHERS grow food for their local food pantries! Getting ready to send a few hundred, cold-hardy veggie seedlings that will grow well into our New England fall to Growing Resilience, a grassroots community gardening effort that utilizes some @bostonschools school gardens to grow food during the COVID pandemic! One of our board members helped push that effort through to become a reality and we are so proud to continue to support the efforts of Growing Resilience in @Boston
Fall crops are being seeded everywhere we can find Fall crops are being seeded everywhere we can find/make bare ground, as our late-planted summer crops are finally starting to come on strong! #fallcrops #cucumbers #foodpantrygarden #volunteerwithus #greaterboston #greaterbostonfoodbank #bostongardening #organicallygrown
Getting ready for another harvest on Thursday! Getting ready for another harvest on Thursday!
We are busy at work seeding in fall crops amongst We are busy at work seeding in fall crops amongst our vibrantly growing summer crops! Second picture shows a late seeding of cucumbers just getting ready for trellising. Just outside of the cukes, we seeded a 60' row of Sugar Snap peas! We love interplanting and succession planting. As we grow from the 10,000sf space we are tending now, into the rest of the field, we will continue to push the creative envelope to maximize production! Stay tuned as we bring you along our journey, cover cropping and soil prep still to come! The field is approzimately 1.5 acres and has been worked hard, without much respite, for about a decade. Ultimately, we will rotate production and keep 1/2 acre in a succession of cover crops at all times to give the land a break and build healthier soils!
We are so thrilled to deliver our first harvest fr We are so thrilled to deliver our first harvest from our primary production field in Wayland this week! We are even more thrilled to announce an incredible partnership with @opentablema, a strategic partner of the Greater Boston Food Bank!!! Through this partnership we will fulfill our main goal and mission of growing food to support hunger relief efforts in our communities. These past 7 months we ( @kathy.martin.315428 @deeleysan @hannah_traggis @bostonbackyardgarden) have sprinted up a very long road to get here! From forming a brand new 501(c)(3)organization, securing 1.5 acres of farmland, creating a dedicated food pantry field for Medway Community Farm, breaking ground and cultivating our own field, it has been a breathless and epic journey! We feel strongly that this is just the beginning, and with our incredible new partner, Open Table, we plan to go beyond hunger relief and will work to address some of the deeper causes if food insecurity! Join us for the ride! Visit our website (link in bio!) and sign up for our newsletter! And best of all, join us in the field and help us grow this beautiful, organic produce, weekly volunteer opportunities abound!!! #hungerrelief #partnership #gratitude #organicallygrown #freshfood #nutritionforall #foodaccess
Finding helpful friends everywhere! This curious l Finding helpful friends everywhere! This curious little girl jumped right onto my arm! #aurelia #beneficialinsects #prayingmantis #organicpestcontrol #farmlife #womenwhofarm #ecologicalfarming
Some delicious produce coming along in the Food Pa Some delicious produce coming along in the Food Pantry plot we tend for @medwaycommunityfarm ! We are harvesting already, seems like we just started yesterday! This plot is much smaller than our main farm field in Wayland, so we have gotten creative with inter planting various crops together such as beets under planted with our snap peas! Our main site in Wayland is coming along nicely too! First harvest there is right around the corner! It's all coming together and really happening!!! #growfood #organicallygrown #foodjustice #foodpantry #hungerrelief #farm
The field is bursting with food! Tomatoes starting The field is bursting with food! Tomatoes starting to ripen, potatoes poking out of the ground, lettuce ready for harvest and baby cabbages begin to head! We'll be making our first harvest soon from our main production field in Wayland! #foodpantryfarm #foodnustice #foodsecurity #organic #organicproduce #foodpantry
We've come so far in not such a long time! Here is We've come so far in not such a long time! Here is an early spring view of Aurelia's Garden, Inc., home garden base in Wayland, MA! The winter rye was just prouting as we were taking the steps to germinate ourselves into our newly formed organization! Here, with an entirely volunteer workforce, on this generous acre, we will grow food for area food pantries. Stay tuned as we share the trials, the triumphs, the harvests and wonderful, passionate and dedicated people that will make this all happen! #growwithus #volunteer #foodjustice #vegetablefarm #community #organic
On bended knee we gather and garden We farm Togeth On bended knee we gather and garden We farm Together through isolation we grow Food for our community Community for our hearts and souls The #socialdistanceselfie was born as we broke ground @medwaycommunityfarm Where week by week, row by row, we compost, lay irrigation and mulch and plant, crop by crop, seed by seed they sprout. This week we broke ground on our mother site, a secluded 1 acre field, bordering conservation land, in Wayland MA. #aureliasgarden is born! The road is rough and unpaved, towing wagons we trudge, together, we plan and implement! Stay tuned, our #foodpantry garden has only just begun to #sprout and #grow #foodforthepeople #foodjustice #foodsovereignty #comefarmwithus
Amazing first day for Aurelia's Garden in service Amazing first day for Aurelia's Garden in service @medwaycommunityfarm tending a new space dedicated entirely to hunger relief efforts in Medway! #volunteer #growfoodlocally #foodinsecurity #foodjustice #hungerrelief #passion #dedication @kit.kelly02 @kathy.martin.315428 @bostonbackyardgarden @deeleysan @rosemarythymeflowers Aurelia's Garden is a diverse community of passionate and dedicated volunteers growing fresh and nutritious produce to address local food insecurity
#broccoli #celery #beets #ohmy cold hardy #seedlin #broccoli #celery #beets #ohmy cold hardy #seedlings coming along for #aureliasgarden We'll be planting out in a few weeks starting @medwaycommunityfarm food pantry farm plot! Starting #tomatoes and #peppers today, what are YOU planting?! Interested in volunteering to help grow food for eastern MA food pantries? Email us today! We have full COVID19 safety precautions in effect to garden safely, for a necessary and important cause! Email in bio! #foodpantrygarden #organicvegetables #volunteer
Planning some new fencing to outsmart the bunnies Planning some new fencing to outsmart the bunnies this year! What are you doing to prepare for the season?! #bunnyfence #coopgardens #foodpantrygarden #bestlaidplans
Time to get growing! Welcome to our brand new ende Time to get growing! Welcome to our brand new endeavor, a charitable farm growing food for those in need in our community! #getgrowing #organicveggies #garlic #growwithus
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