It's official - wow, we actually have some official things happening this year. Quick Update.
Farm meetings for this spring, until we can get out to the farm, are the 3rd Saturday of each month, at 10 a.m. at the Palumbo's home. We've had great attendance the past few months and we haven't even started our membership drive.
There's an even higher sense of excitement and anticipation this year - we're getting ready EARLY for the 2009 season, we have great leadership -Scott Parsons is putting to…
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Added by lars clausen on February 28, 2009 at 8:27am —
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Join us at our home in Wenatchee Sunday, Feb 22 at 2 pm for the first Steering Committee meeting of the year! We are at 1906 Leavenworth Place, Wenatchee, WA
Call for directions or look us up on Google maps...
The first seeds are in! We will plant at least one flat, and show attendees some simple strategies for doing cold frames to keep the seedlings from growing too fast, so they will be hardy.
See you soon!
Scott and Ruth P
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Added by Scott or Ruth Parsons on February 18, 2009 at 1:44pm —
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Come celebrate this festive season
sporting your best Ugly Holiday Sweater
& win a prize!
Friday, December 12th
6pm until 10pm
at John and Joan Brownfield
Ugly sweater?!
Yep, we’ve all had them, and some of you may have to borrow one, but wear ‘em! The best of the worst will receive a prize! We…
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Added by Sherrables on November 26, 2008 at 9:26pm —
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For a week I walked on nothing but concrete and tar – and loved it, all the people, and the places and all the pizza. And then how wonderful it felt to come home. A big wide street – and no one on it. After 5 days, I was walking on a Manhattan street and realized there was nowhere on the island I could go to find a quiet place. I had a great time in Manhattan, but I sure appreciate that we can touch dirt and grow food at Solid Rock, and we can live here in a place like Chelan.
I’m looking for…
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Added by lars clausen on August 8, 2008 at 3:21pm —
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Hi farm friends,
Okay, whatever else happens at Solid Rock, I’m satisfied…on Saturday we harvested the garlic, 4 boxloads of hardneck and softnecks. Success. I’ve never grown or harvested garlic before.
Nor had I ever hilled potatoes with straw. After piling dirt around a long row of potatoes I thought I was becoming a ditch digger. Gene suggested putting straw around the rest of the plants and letting the potatoes develop right in the straw. Anne and I put loads and loads of straw on last Sat…
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Added by lars clausen on July 30, 2008 at 8:20am —
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After weeks and weeks of sitting around in the “under an inch” category, our basil are on the move, with the first full size leaves coming in this past week. Thanks to all the help with weeding we can actually see these little pesto makers in their rows. Edible flowers are growing fast too.
The workshed has some of the trim on it now. Thank you, thank you Gene for creating this space for us. Now we need a trip to recover excess apple prop stakes. We’re planning to use these for the siding of th…
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Added by lars clausen on July 11, 2008 at 7:52am —
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Hi Friends,
“Finish Your Plate” was one of our house rules when I grew up. Right now at Solid Rock we have an expanding plateful of food. Early in the season we were wondering how we’d plant enough food. Now we’re wondering how we got so much. For those who like talking about these things, how about we meet this Saturday at 10 a.m. and share ideas about sharing our abundance? Some of us want our hands in the dirt. Some of us want to talk things through. Perhaps we should try a brief optional me…
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Added by lars clausen on July 9, 2008 at 8:19am —
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HI Friends,
This Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. please come out to Solid Rock if you’re able to. We have four flats of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant to put in the ground, along with squash and melon seeds. The farm gets greener each week as the weather warms and the plants start to accelerate their growth.
SATURDAY MEETING – Here’s the news.
Watering: John and Marianne are fine with continuing our watering duties for now. The rest of us will take care of what the sprinklers don’t…
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Added by lars clausen on June 17, 2008 at 9:21am —
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Scott and Ruth here--
We had a good time working with the soil at SRF for our big planting day last Sunday. I tilled the new plot four times with minimal irrigation in between tilling times, to work at naturally eliminating the majority of perennial weeds (orchard grass and alfalfa). The design of the garden is for productivity, with an element of symmetry and whimsy thrown in to keep it interesting. A circle of lawn (for mulch) will grace the center, crossing paths follow the compass direction…
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Added by lars clausen on June 11, 2008 at 9:24am —
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LOTS HAPPENING:
After two weekends of Los Angeles traffic and being away from our Saturday farm mornings, I was so happy to be back at Solid Rock. The roof is part way up on the shed. Amazing work by Gene. And John is up to 11 gophers trapped. The salad greens are spectacular. Squash seeds are coming up. Jeff tilled our open areas again, so they're ready for LoriAnne's starts. Folks spent time on the herb garden this weekend and its spectacularly weed free for at least a few days again.…
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Added by lars clausen on June 10, 2008 at 9:08am —
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SALAD:
What a delicious salad last night. Tom Thumb lettuce, Spinach, Arugula, and some speckled red lettuce too. Come on out Saturday and we'll do more thinning of the lettuce rows. Arugula is already bolting so we may pick the entire row. Yum.
MORE PLANTS:
Another gift of tomatoes and peppers is coming, thanks to LoriAnne. LoriAnne provided almost all our starts last year, and she has some leftovers again from her spring sale. We'll till up some ground on Saturday. Perhaps w…
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Added by lars clausen on June 5, 2008 at 8:47am —
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Hi Friends,
Feels good to be back in Chelan after 10 days in Los Angeles and Southern California. The farming bug has hit, though. While I was with my brother in San Diego we went to the nursery and got tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and basil for his garden. While we were planting these in his flower beds I was eyeing his lawn, thinking it could feed a family for most of a year.
I hear the salad greens are growing fast at the farm. I’m thinking of bringing a bottle of salad dr…
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Added by lars clausen on June 4, 2008 at 8:49am —
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Another fine Wednesday evening at the farm. John drove his tractor mower over and Solid Rock got a manicure! And the tomatoes? Wow! Almost 200 were planted last Sunday. I put in some late corn last night, so make sure your barbecues are working for this summer. Thank you to Humberto for coming out Wednesday afternoon and rototilling the soil for the corn!
Straw Man/ Straw Woman needed Saturday:
Jeff weeded a long patch of the strawberries. We had time to cover some of the area with straw…
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Added by lars clausen on May 22, 2008 at 6:21am —
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Friday Evening at 5:30
Gene is delivering all the materials donated by Brett LaMar and Chelan Building Supply for our Solid Rock workshed. The shed will be 8x12 feet with a 6 foot porch on the front. Can you believe all that’s happening at the farm. Come on out tonight for a bit if you wish, or…
Saturday Morning at the Farm: Starting at 8 a.m. and anytime afterwards.
A Chance to Build: Come help Gene with the workshed. All carpenters and carpentry supporters are wanted for this p…
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Added by lars clausen on May 16, 2008 at 8:23am —
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Work Shed Materials Donated:
Thank you to Chelan Building Supply for donating materials for our Solid Rock work shed. Joan took the list over to Brett Lamar and he said he'd be glad to help. Thank you!
Now Gene is looking for anyone who wants to help with the construction. If Orion or Nedra or anyone else has contacts at ths schools of students wanting to earn their service hours, these folks will also be welcome to help.
Let's try out our social network for this project. I created a FO…
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Added by lars clausen on May 14, 2008 at 8:22am —
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Don’t Call This Work:
High-School senior Orion is volunteering at the farm for the 40 hours of community service that each senior needs prior to graduating. After a couple of hours of weeding on Saturday morning he said, "I get it now, this farm is just like an online chat room."
True enough. I doubt anyone described Saturday morning as work. Yet by the end of the morning we'd planted turnips and peas (Gene, Marcie, Anne), 14 new blueberry plants (Paul), herbs (Nedra), flowers (Joan) and…
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Added by lars clausen on May 12, 2008 at 8:22am —
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Hi Farm Friends.
Oftentimes when I'm at the farm with Jeff, I'll see him take a handful of dirt in his hands and exclaim over how amazing he finds the Solid Rock soil.
WORKSHED:
I have the same feeling of amazement when I think of the energy that continues to gather around the farm. I've gotten emails this past week, saying... “as soon as there's a lockable workshed out at the farm.” "I'll donate a wheelbarrow." "I'll donate a garden cart like the one's they use at Nancy's nursery,"
Wh…
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Added by lars clausen on May 8, 2008 at 9:38am —
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We’ve got chips!
Anne and I stopped by the farm Sunday, on our way back from Idaho. Thank you Wade Miller from All Seasons Rental for the use of your dump trailer, to Paul Singleton for loading the wood chips at the Recycle Center and for Humberto Ramirez for using your truck to bring the chips to the farm.
Wow…so much is coming together at Solid Rock Farm. I have such a good feeling every time I’m there.
Last Saturday’s Crew:
Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday morning to w…
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Added by lars clausen on May 6, 2008 at 10:13am —
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Hi Farm Friends,
Here it is…the current Solid Rock Farm Wish List. This farm has definitely been a place of wishing and praying and dreaming and then seeing results happen. For those of you that are joining this year, this whole farm came together in the space of 24 hours last summer, from the time of seeing an ad at the Vogue, to agreeing on a 10 year use of the land. Three weeks later the land was tilled and the plants were in the ground. So…now that we’re rolling, here are some items that…
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Added by lars clausen on May 2, 2008 at 2:35pm —
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Thanks to the high school we have 100 new cabbages planted, trying to get a start in the windy weather of this season. Next workday is this Saturday at 9 a.m.
WORKSHED:
John Brownfield was asking if we’re making any progress on locating a workshed that can be placed on the farm. Which brings up our wishlist we had displayed at Earth Day.
WISH LIST THOUGHTS:
1. Joan, will you send out the wish list from Earth Day so we can all take a look at it? Amongst our membership we may have direct connect…
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Added by lars clausen on May 1, 2008 at 8:36am —
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Getting together
New Garden Year, 2009!
Ugly Sweater and Re-gift Exchange Holiday Party!
