Juniper Garden's Farmer's Market

We'll be starting our on site Farmer's Market this Monday!
The neighborhood where our farm is located is what's called a "food desert," meaning there isn't access to good, nutritious food anywhere around. The nearest grocery store is more than a mile away (which doesn't seem like a lot... but imagine walking with your grocery bags for a mile!) and the bus takes over an hour to get there. We are hoping to offer delicious, organic produce right from the farm. After all, people who watch yummy tomatoes grow should be able to eat them, right? The on-site market will also be an opportunity for community gardeners to sell whats in their plots to their neighbors.
We are looking for ways to make this market more accessible, which includes accepting food stamps. A wireless acceptor (which could accept food stamps and depit cards) costs around $1,300. Does anyone want to take this fundraising project on for next year?
Stop by the Juniper Garden's Farmer's Market on Mondays from 12:00 to 1:30!

Teamwork.

It's been a busy few weeks at the New Roots farm. We've been planting, harvesting, watering, going to market, planning for next season and cooking and creating recipes! Here are a few pictures from September. Check out our teamwork!
Sisters Halima and Amina bring things to the scale on harvest day.

Pay Lay's kids work together to complete her harvest in the pouring rain!
Khadijo, Hailma, Amina and the kids work together in the rain to clean all their produce.
Pelagie and Nyakang share a snack during our downpour harvest last Friday.

Christie, Josh and Cory help Aye Aye clean her beans.
Pa Mu and Ehler Tu keep each other company at the farm. (and smash tomatoes, and throw gravel at people, and get really muddy, etc.)
Pay Lay and volunteer Susan (my momma!) work together at the farmer's market.
Khadijo teaches a customer how to tie her baby on her back Africa-style!
Awesome volunteer Shauna helps me carry the CSA cooler!
Our CSA members work together with their growers in a win-win situation!

We've still got a few weeks left at the Farmer's Market. Come see us at Brookside and buy our fall crops: Arugula, Spinach, Mizuna, Green Beans, Turnips, Pumpkins and a lot of other yummies!

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

We need your plastic bags for the market!

Do you have a stash of old plastic shopping bags sprawling out all over your kitchen?

We'll take them. Bring them to the Brookside Farmer's Market or stop by the farm or office!