September 2019 Newsletter

  • Enjoy the music of Miss Leo and her Bluegrass Boys.
  • Pick and roast corn. 
  • Buy produce grown onsite by our students and tenant farmers...and much more. 

Pictures and reports on last year’s festival here

Volunteers welcomed for help with preparation and management.

SECOND SATURDAY WORK PARTY September 14 from 9:00 am - Noon

 

PLEASE JOIN US at 1221 Calle Joaquin. Help maintain our educational garden, solve problems, learn new skills and take home eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants and more.

SCHOOL BACK IN SESSION

Pacific Beach Continuation High School FARM Class returns for its sixth year of agricultural, nutritional, and sustainability instruction. Students cook and eat the food they grow.  This Fall initiates a new pilot FARM BOX program where students learn to build a business, regularly packing and marketing their  crops.

Our weekly farm work program with PREPARE brings differently-abled young adults back for another year of skill development, accomplishment and fun.

NEIGHBORS: SAN LUIS RANCH

Our immediate neighbors to the north at San Luis Ranch are proceeding with their housing development that preserves 50 acres of working farmland.  Here they can be seen moving the site’s historic farmhouse and barn to its future location for use as an agricultural heritage center that will be surrounded by fields.

OUR GLOBAL FAMILY GARDEN

The community cob house construction project nears conclusion with sculptured decoration of interior and exterior walls.

GARDEN DESIGN INIITIATIVE

Farmer Jade Rosario works with the PBHS students on the old corn patch to experiment with sheet-mulching for the first time on the farm. Sheet mulching is a no-till field preparation method, and a common permaculture design technique. This methods works to promote soil microbial development.  We are growing the soil that grows our food.  Sheet-mulching has already been utilized by our Education Coordinator, Teresa Lees in the OGF Garden.  Teresa and Jade are working together to take a systematic design approach to increase food production at the School garden.

FOOD BANK PARTNERSHIP

Congressional representative Salud Carbahal celebrates the 30th anniversary of the SLO Food Bank with a visit highlighting its collaboration with nine local non-profits in the Community Food Project (CFP). One of them is City Farm SLO.

BOUNTY

Basurto Family Farms harvests their five-acre field of zucchini, grown without pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers, in keeping with the requirements for all tenants at City Farm.

For the whole story in pictures, check out our Flickr site and/or our Instagram feed.

1221 Calle Joaquin, SLO
805-769-8344

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