We have Garden Shares for Sale
The Fruitful Field CSA Program from Fruitful Field on Vimeo. Check out our video and click on the “Garden Shares” tab to sign up.
Workday this Saturday August 16th
Can you take the heat??! It’s August and the Sun’s blazing, no doubt about it….. Join us Saturday for our Volunteer Workday and take nature’s extreme challenge at the Parkway site. A mix of projects and the relief of icy lemongrass tea await you. Light lunch of garden food provided (green papaya coconut curry is …
Preparing our new site in Margate (Cokesbury United Methodist)
Breaking Ground at Cokesbury! (post by Eric Gibian- Site Coordinator at The Fruitful Field at Cokesbury) Saturday August 10th was the big day for breaking ground on the new TFF garden site at Cokesbury UMC. The plan was to spread a generous amount of composted chicken manure to add fertility, then rototill in the …
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Now Recruiting Interns for our new grow season
The Fruitful Field Organic Garden-Farm Intern Program “At The Fruitful Field we grow people; in the process a lot of vegetables and fruit are produced.” The Fruitful Field Intern experience: The Fruitful Field (TFF) Organic Garden-Farm Interns love to see organically-grown vegetables in the hands of those who need them most via our unique ‘Buy-1-Give-1’ …
Summer newsletter from the Fruitful Field
Summer Garden News It’s summer at our sub-tropical garden! Unlike places up north that doesn’t mean rows and rows of vegetables and mellow healthy sun. Instead, we have really hot humid veggie-wilting, bug-generating weather tough to work in even when it’s not pouring down rain! Never fear though, our fruit trees love these conditions! Visitors …
Building Decorative Bird Houses for the garden with kids of all ages
A great off Campus June happening for the Fruitful Field VBS at First United Methodist in Fort Lauderdale (12 photos) Great time with over 140 kids at Vacation Bible School in Fort Lauderdale, sharing what we grow, tasting garden honey, and painting birdhouses for our upcoming Imagination Kitchen at the garden! Thanks for the invitation …
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Volunteer Day this Saturday the 21st
Hey Fruitful Field volunteers, we have a volunteer day this Saturday June 21st. We prepping and planting a field full of okra along with other great tasks. Snacks, lemon grass tea and a light lunch. 9am to noon. See you in the garden!
Mango tree pruning class this Saturday (June 14th) at 9:30 AM
Fruit tree pruning class at the Fruitful Field! Saturday June 14 at 9:30am! Free. We’ll show you how to prune mango trees so they stay productive and don’t get too big. Includes hands-on practice. Mango trees don’t have to be giants to produce great fruit! Why are we pruning mango trees now? You normally …
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We have named the Tractor
We’ve picked a name! The new tractor is named Ferdinand! Congrats to @Meg McKenna, a faithful regular at our Saturday Volunteer Workdays, who suggested this great name. See this link for a short old-fashioned movie about Ferdinand…
Check out May pictures from the garden
Some snapshots for the month- stay tuned for further big announcements!