Open House May 2011

 

The photos below were taken during our 2011 season kick off open house, held on May 7th, 2011.  Given that our membership had nearly tripled going into the season, this was the first chance for many of our members to visit The Farm and to meet us and see how the food they would soon be eating was grown.

The greenhouse was full of beautiful beds of young plants	The weeder geese weren't particularily happy to see anyone, though they were pretty excited about handfuls of crab grass
Owner Donna Moe letting the laying hens and a few happy roosters out of their new home first thing in the morning to graze	Trays of green and purple basil growing in the greenhouse
Farmer Kelsey harvesting greens in the high tunnel	Farm art, or caveman see-saw
Owner Dan Moe gives a field tour for a group of ladies and casts the vision for where certain crops will soon be growing	Nothing says macro photography like drops of water on leaves
This little oregano plant was clearly overachieving and making its tray mates look bad	A few of the new egg-laying ladies joining The Farm
In the high tunnel, Dan Moe explains what's growing in each of the rows and why	Bok Choy and a Radish, engaging in a slow motion turf war
Some of the trays in the greenhouse were strikingly beautiful when you got up close	Thelma and Louise joined the farm this year.  Currently they are having a blast rooting up some old strawberry beds
A long shot of a tour of the high tunnel	Live on The Farm long enough and you all begin to look at the world the same way
Two of our youngest members meeting for the first time	Dan rolling up the sides of the high tunnel to cool things down
A look into the "cool boxes" - a transition step between the greenhouse and the field	The geese taking a swim in a fresh pool of water