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Strawberry Planting + Farm Fundraiser
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
Please join us at Alemany Farm this Saturday, Nov 21 as we plant our 2010 strawberries. We will be putting about 300 plants in the ground, and we hope you are there to help us. We will also be sowing some of the last cover crop and building new compost.
Also, if you plan [...]
Harvest Festival THIS SAT + Growing New Gardens
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
We hope you can join us THIS Sat, Oct 24, as we celebrate our Fifth Annual Harvest Festival. The festivities will start around 11 AM and wrap up around 5 PM.
We will have plenty of food including a Somoan-style roasted organic suckling pig, veggie burgers, salads fresh from the farm, and Mission Pie [...]
Alemany Harvest Festival Oct 24!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
Mark your calendars for Alemany Farm’s Fifth Annual Harvest Festival!!
On Saturday, October 24 we will celebrate another fantastic season at the Farm and all of the accomplishments we’ve had in the past year by growing organic food for SF communities and educating people about how to cultivate their own produce.
We will have a [...]
Alemany farm in the news, and upcoming volunteer workdays
Monday, July 27th, 2009Hello Farm Friends:
It’s a busy time at Alemany Farm these days. The farm was recently featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article, and co-manager Jason Mark made Mother Nature Network’s roundup of “40 Farmers Under 40.”
But of course we’ve been farming too! It’s the height of the growing season — we’ve got green beans coming [...]
Calendar Confusion: Upcoming Alemany Workdays
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
We know, we know: It can be really confusing to remember that the Farm’s workday schedule is the First and Third Sundays of the month and the Saturdays In Between.
We have kept up this schedule for the last five summers to ensure that the garden is accessible to everyone, no matter what other [...]
Beekeeping and Lettuce at Alemany Farm
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Dear Farm Friends:
If you’ve decided to skip Bay to Breakers this year — who needs AM drinking and crazy costumes anyway? — but still want to enjoy what is supposed to be perfect weather this weekend, then come to Alemany Farm’s next community workday this Sunday, May 17.
The folks from the CA Native Plant Society [...]
Alemany Farm = Community Hero
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
We wanted to share with you the exciting news that Alemany Farm, our volunteers, and the staff at the Alemany Resident Management Corporation have been honored with a Crissy Field Community Hero Award.
We hope you can join us this Sat, May 2 for an awards ceremony at the Crissy Field Center, starting at [...]
Upcoming Workdays + Farm Visits
Friday, April 24th, 2009Dear Farm Friends:
First, many thanks to all of you who came to Alemany Farm for our 3rd Annual Earth Day BBQ last weekend. It was a great way to bring together San Francisco’s diverse communities, and we hope you had as much fun as we did.
If you missed the BBQ, no sweat, because we still [...]
The Revolution is Growing…
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Dear Friends:
Long before the Obamas put in a vegetable garden at the White House (pretty amazing, right!), city-wide volunteers and members of the Alemany Community were working hard to make the Farm a living example of neighborhood empowerment, food security, and ecological sustainability.
The seeds of that labor are receiving some gratifying recognition this week.
On Saturday, [...]
Springtime at Alemany Farm
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Dear Friends:
The days are getting noticeably longer, the weather is warming up, and at Alemany Farm we are digging into Spring.
We hope you can join us at our next workday, Saturday, March 21 as we start on our spring garden bed tillage, compost building, and cover crop mowing. The garden is starting transform itself again, [...]
