Hello, Friends of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm!
Happy Springtime! First I’ll give a shout out to the volunteers who showed up to plant trees at the Citizen’s Co-op, CMC parking lot, and to the Edible Plant Project www.edibleplantproject.org who donated those trees. Thanks to you all there are now 2 mulberries, 2 figs, 2 loquats, a pinapple guava and a grape, as well as blueberries and sunchokes and edible cannas where before there was only grass and weeds. And the place looks 100% better!
And get to bed early tonight so you can come out tomorrow morning (Sat 3/26) starting at 9am to the Citizen’s Co-op Porter’s Community Gardens to plant an orchard of trees donated by the Edible Plant Project. We will be digging in and planting:
5 fig trees
3 mulberry trees
3 pinapple guava bushes
4 loquat trees
2 strawberry guava bushes
2 thornless blackberry bushes
2 pigeon pea bushes
1 nettle plant
and one nopale (thornless prickly pear cactus with edible pads)
as well as sunchokes,
edible cannas
yucca
sugar cane and
and strawberries.
Please bring gloves and drinking water and any shovels or rakes you might have (please mark them as your own before coming). and you can tell your friends, “Yeah, I helped plant those trees full of fruit, and it was FUN!” make sure you sign in and out because hours worked count toward hours pledged with the Friends of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm.
And speaking of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm, it is buzzing with life and blooms and fruit! Kenny is planning on running U-Pick at $4/pound again this year, and he will pay a dollar per pound of good berries that you pick for him. So if you are a fast picker you could make some money, or just pick delicious organic berries for a good price right here within city limits. And the farm is looking better than it has for years thanks to your hard work as well as Kenny and friends, kicking it up a notch here recently and really cleaning the place up.
On a very sad note Kenny’s friend Tommy who was working wonders out there, has passed on. He will be sorely missed. I didnt know him well but I recognized him as a rare ‘heart of gold’. Bless you Tommy – The farm wont be the same without you!
I find that when I get down it helps to plant a fruit tree with other hopefull humans, so c’mon and plant your cares away!
Please join us tomorrow between 9 and 11:30 for some good dirty fun with lasting benefits to our beautiful community, it will make the fruit you pick there so much sweeter if you helped plant it, and its a great way to impress your kids!
Hope to see you tomorrow morning!
maureen
www.GvilleBlueberryFarmFriends.org
Happy Springtime! First I’ll give a shout out to the volunteers who showed up to plant trees at the Citizen’s Co-op, CMC parking lot, and to the Edible Plant Project www.edibleplantproject.org who donated those trees. Thanks to you all there are now 2 mulberries, 2 figs, 2 loquats, a pinapple guava and a grape, as well as blueberries and sunchokes and edible cannas where before there was only grass and weeds. And the place looks 100% better!
And get to bed early tonight so you can come out tomorrow morning (Sat 3/26) starting at 9am to the Citizen’s Co-op Porter’s Community Gardens to plant an orchard of trees donated by the Edible Plant Project. We will be digging in and planting:
5 fig trees
3 mulberry trees
3 pinapple guava bushes
4 loquat trees
2 strawberry guava bushes
2 thornless blackberry bushes
2 pigeon pea bushes
1 nettle plant
and one nopale (thornless prickly pear cactus with edible pads)
as well as sunchokes,
edible cannas
yucca
sugar cane and
and strawberries.
Please bring gloves and drinking water and any shovels or rakes you might have (please mark them as your own before coming). and you can tell your friends, “Yeah, I helped plant those trees full of fruit, and it was FUN!” make sure you sign in and out because hours worked count toward hours pledged with the Friends of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm.
And speaking of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm, it is buzzing with life and blooms and fruit! Kenny is planning on running U-Pick at $4/pound again this year, and he will pay a dollar per pound of good berries that you pick for him. So if you are a fast picker you could make some money, or just pick delicious organic berries for a good price right here within city limits. And the farm is looking better than it has for years thanks to your hard work as well as Kenny and friends, kicking it up a notch here recently and really cleaning the place up.
On a very sad note Kenny’s friend Tommy who was working wonders out there, has passed on. He will be sorely missed. I didnt know him well but I recognized him as a rare ‘heart of gold’. Bless you Tommy – The farm wont be the same without you!
I find that when I get down it helps to plant a fruit tree with other hopefull humans, so c’mon and plant your cares away!
Please join us tomorrow between 9 and 11:30 for some good dirty fun with lasting benefits to our beautiful community, it will make the fruit you pick there so much sweeter if you helped plant it, and its a great way to impress your kids!
Hope to see you tomorrow morning!
maureen
www.GvilleBlueberryFarmFriends.org