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Pennypack Pickings
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May 28, 2012
Volume 10, Issue 12
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Coming Soon
This will help you plan your meals!
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Emails arriving in your inbox with a list of the harvest for your pick-up day! Monday share members will receive their email on Monday morning.
Wednesday and Friday members will receive theirs on Tuesday or Thursday evening...or Wed or Friday morning.
The system will begin in the second or third week of pickup! Let us know if this helps! Some of the items for this week's pick-up: Definite: Kale
Lettuce
Various cut greens Limited Quantities: Kohlrabi
Broccoli
Bok Choi |
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What are Your Summer Plans? Travel? Redecorating? Gardening? Cooking (or maybe just eating)?
 There's something for everyone at the silent auction at the Localicious Event
on Thursday, June 14!Various vacation homes will be in the auction, or if you want to stay closer to home, we have lots of tickets for local attractions. If you plan to redecorate, check out artwork, a gift certificate to Mealey's Furniture, or get a new family portrait taken by Heart & Soul Photography. Garden items include landscape evaluations, books, and tickets to local gardens for inspiration. For the foodie, small group chef's dinners, tasty local foods, and gift certificates for restaurants will be auctioned. Get your tickets now for this delicious, Localicious event! All proceeds support Pennypack Farm.
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The CSA Season Has Begun!
 Last Sunday and again last Tuesday, we held our 10th annual new member orientation. The weather was amazing. The farm was beautiful! Over 110 families attended...a record crowd. The Sunday groups heard Karyn McGee from the College Settlement Camp of Philadelphia explain the synergistic relationship between the farm and the camp. Karyn explained that one of the highlights for their campers is a trip to the farm and she encouraged all farm members to "say hi" when you see the kids in the fields.  New members now understand  the "unit" system. Friday was our first CSA season pickup. It was wonderful to see familiar faces and all members smile in delight with huge lettuce heads and...strawberries!
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Seeking Farmer Housing
A few of our farmers who live a distance from the farm are looking for housing nearby in order to be closer to the farm. In the past, CSA members have provided housing to farmers for as little as a few months up to a year or more. If you know of any off-market housing available, from a room rental to a small apartment, please contact Andy at the farm or at pennypackfarm@gmail.com.
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Host a Young Farm Volunteer
One week...or more....
Pennypack Farm benefits enormously every year from young people we call our WWOOFers: willing World-wide Workers On Organic Farms. WWOOFers are eager to expand their organic farming knowledge. They offer at least 30 hours of week of their labor in exchange for room and board from the hosting farm. We have had WWOOFers from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, France, and the U.S., so far.
As you may know, one of Pennypack Farm's biggest problems is the lack of farmer/intern housing. One of the Farm Members usually hosts these fine people (usually ages 20 to 35). Sometimes, more WWOOFers want to come to the farm than we have room for. We seek families who have space and are willing to open their homes to these aspiring farmers.
To host a WWOOFer means:
- Have a guest room with access to a bathroom
- Include them in your breakfast and dinner meals (they have lunch at the farm). Some are vegetarians; some cook.
- Anticipate how to handle muddy shoes.
- Transportation to and from the farm can be facilitated easily from the Doylestown, Mt. Airy, Jenkintown, or Ambler areas by farmer staff.
- Their farm day is 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday - Friday, and sometimes a Saturday Farmer's Market
If you would be willing to host a WWOOFer for one, two, or three weeks anytime this year, please email katie@pennypackfarm.org. You may express your preference for a WWOOFer of a specific gender, age or diet preference. Whenever a new WWOOFer asks if we can accommodate them, I will contact you all to see who can host the person. We have a few already waiting for a host family.
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Spring Calendar
Family Programs
Dance of the Bees - Little Seeds gardening class for ages 3-4
Wednesday June 6, 10:15 am - 11:15 am, $8
Explore the world of bees and how they communicate by dance. Through active role playing as bees, children will learn how bees navigate to find nectar, and dance to tell their bee friends where the sweetest nectar is! Register now...
 Ceramic Garden Labels - A Great Father's Day Gift! Sunday June 10, 2:00pm-3:00pm
$20 per parent child pair, $5 per additional person
Come enjoy this fun activity for the whole family. Make labels for Dad or bring him along and make labels with him as an early Father's Day treat! Using basic handbuilding techniques, each person will create their own personally designed plant labels. (Limit 4 labels per person) Your personal labels will be taken to the Potteryworks Mobile kiln and fired. You will be able to pick up your new garden labels in one week. More info...
Adult Programs  Yogurt making made easy and Kombucha brewing
Thursday June 21, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, $12 Learn to how to make these two simple, yet advanced fermentation techniques. Participants will be guided through the ins and outs of yoghurt and kombucha making. We will go through the process of set up for the fermentation of each item and how to guide the micro-organisms as they flourish, bringing each food to fruition. Register now... |
Hosted by the College Settlement of Philadelphia
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