The Bridge Urban Farms: Growing Food in the Bronx & East Harlem

Thursday, January 13, 2011

We are waiting for Spring

The season is over. So far two major snow storms have hit the Tri-State area and our gardens are covered with 1-2 feet of snow. We kept busy in November and December. We cooked a few vegetarian dishes like baked kale chips, baked sweet potato fries, and vegetarian rolls with feta cheese. We did our annual good deed of making bird feeders for the various birds that rest in the branches of our magnolia trees and the other surrounding trees. We went to the Holiday train show at the New York Botanical Garden. The only work being done now is that Stacey goes to the Morris Ave. site weekly to feed and maintain the wormbin and Stacey also feeds and maintains his home wormbin. We await Spring 2011. Goodbye. Peace.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Winter Approaches

Since the last blog entry, our work continues. We are beginning to put the farms to rest for the winter by pulling out the dying plants and cutting them up to put in the various compost bins. We continue to save seeds and harvest. For example, on 10/1, we harvested:

Kale- 1lb. 5 oz.
Collards- 2 lbs. 4 oz.
Eggplant- 4 lbs. 2 oz.
Peppers- 4 oz.
Tomatoes- 3 lbs. 13 oz.

However, as of 11/15, most of the plants that are done producing have been pulled out of the ground. So both farms are almost bare. Both the work wormbin and Stacey's home wombin have been harvested. We took a trip to the New York Botanical Garden on 10/22 and had our 3rd annual Harvest Festival on 10/29. Finally, Natalie and Stacey have done 3 workshops on composting with the residents of the E. 111 St. residence and will do 3 workshops on composting with the residents of the Morris Ave. residence over the nest 3 weeks.