Sweet Potato Harvesting and replanting, food pantry plot cleaning and replanting, plant nursery work, great truly local food and a visit by Zion Lutheran church of Deerfield. Our Fall season has officially started up– come to our next workday, stop by for a tour on a Saturday. Be part of Grow, Gather, Give
Our July workday started out with a tropical downpour but soon brightened! From visitors from Cooper City to volunteers–first-timers and regulars–we had a great day weeding, planting papaya trees, and working on garden plots. And don’t forget lunch served by Chef Brian! And then the event of the day: Constructing the ‘hoop house’ for the food …
Our Tree day was good. Perfect weather and a variety of trees to plant, move and generally take care of as we keep making our Food Forest a place for future generations. Since The Fruitful Field sits on 6 acres of land we are doing our best to fill it with all kinds of edibles, …
Thanks for a great workday and great photo opps! Lots of good iced Lemongrass Tea, community and sunshine was had by all. Enjoy the slideshow! See you at Tea in the Garden next Saturday Feb 26th @5:30pm.
Our annual Tea in the Garden is fast approaching–just 3 weeks away! Planting, weeding, and planning are zooming along and soon….we’ll be ready! We hope to see you there, buy your tickets early–click on the pull down menu to the right Meanwhile recent Saturday mornings have been family time! Parents and kids have been hard …
Thank you volunteers for another great day of planting food pantry plots, seeding new legumes, mulching, rock moving and generally soaking in the sunshine and crystal clear air of a South Florida winter day. Thanks for making The Fruitful Field a place of abundance. A big thanks to the Urban Farmer for seedlings and Whole …
Well, really they were logs, not sticks–a big thanks goes out Andy and his strong friends for their log hefting this Saturday! Fruitful Field is removing invasive Melaleucas (tea tree) and making great borders and sitting stumps. Thus, Mike, Jon and Andy in a show of strength carried, rolled, and hauled logs, making the Fruitful …
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Saturday’s workday had two major projects both aimed at increasing food production for the community: 1) Expand the food pantry plots by 50%! Great volunteers took out rocks, filled the permaculture beds with soil, and planted veggies. Remember all those ‘dirt-y’ bags we asked for? This is where they went! Soil plus composted manure makes …
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The sun bright, the breeze mellow, the food good, the bananas ripe and lots of activities for kids and adults. (185+ folks and 35 volunteers- yay!) Check out our pictures on Flickr (click on slideshow below- maximize and play) Thanks to all who came out we will see you all next time!
This last Saturday morning Miguel was up to his Permaculture tricks once again. Alongside his trusty assistant Moses, they built a compost pile in the configuration of a doughnut – not a compost circle! The objective of the Doughnut compost pile is to maximize the volume of the compost pile whilst aiding airflow through the …
