See you at the Petworth Community Market!

We're getting ready for our first market of the season this week! We'll be at Petworth Community Market on Saturdays starting May 7.

Here's taste of what we'll bring to market this week:

  • Salad mix!
  • Romaine and Bibb head lettuce
  • Pea shoots
  • Radishes
  • Kale
  • Lots of seedlings! Get your heirloom tomatoes!

Plus, we've got your last-minute Mother's Day gifts: we're bringing beautiful salad bowls - pots with a colorful variety of salad greens - and crimson clover bouquets.

If you're a Market CSA member, you'll visit the stand and choose from our offerings, then check in with us. We'll tally your total and debit your account.

Come out and say hi!

meet your farmer happy hours in march: let's hang out!

The three of us at Owl's Nest Farm are CSA farmers because we want get to know the people who eat the food we grow. We like food and farming a whole lot and it’s a treat for us to to share this with you all.

In this spirit, we're hosting a few gatherings in the neighborhoods where we'll be offering CSA pickups in 2016. RSVP on Facebook using the links below.

Here's the where and when:

We're looking forward to seeing friends, meeting CSA members and connecting with potential shareholders. See you there!

connecting with dc food growers at rooting dc

We love Rooting DC! As folks who've been involved in the urban agriculture movement, we so enjoyed connecting with old and new friends at the conference this year, and we're so glad that there is a free (!) food growing and food justice conference in the city.

Spencer and Liz did a 7x7 talk called "Planning and Planting for Continuous Harvest, and we got a couple requests to share our slides, so here's a link. Part of the idea behind a 7x7 talk is that you only have 7 minutes, and it was tough! Luckily, we talk fast.

We also dug the mushroom growing workshops led by Good Sense Farm and Mycosymbiotics. The most mind-blowing thing we learned was about experiments using parasitic mushrooms called cordyceps (see photo below) to create natural pesticides that might help save ash trees from emerald ash borers. Cool, huh?

Many thanks to the hardworking folks who make this conference happen every year!