Five opportunities to visit the farm this summer

The Center for Rural Affairs is putting on a series of online classes and on-farm tours this year called “A Day in the Life of a Vegetable Producer”. West End Farm is one of the farms they’re highlighting in the series. I’ll be hosting one tour per month this season, each focusing on a different aspect of vegetable farming.

Here’s the schedule (each tour is on a Saturday from 1:00-3:00 pm):

April 5: Soil preparation
May 10: Extending the season
June 14: Plot layout and developing agricultural ecosystems
July 12: Tools and machinery
Aug. 9: Closing out the season

If you’re considering starting a vegetable farm or if you want to dive deep into these topics so you can improve your garden at home, this will be perfect for you.

If you are just curious about raising vegetables, you’re also welcome to come! If you’ve never been out to the farm and want to see where your food grows, please come! This will be a great chance to see the farm and to observe how the crops grow and change throughout the season. Come to one or come to all the tours as your schedule allows.

Each tour will start with an overview of the whole vegetable operation plus the beehives. Then we’ll get into the nitty gritty of the topic of the day. (If you just came to see the farm and don’t want all the details, this would be a good time to find some of the barn cats to play with!)

This entire vegetable production series is bilingual, so the tour will be translated into Spanish. Feel free to bring a Spanish-speaking friend or a student you know who needs to practice!