Farm Work Schedule This Week: Come put in your hours!

Hey everyone,
Sorry I've been at MIA the last few weeks, but I'm back on track and going to encourage all of you to head out to Johnston and join Catherine and Matt in the field.
Christie and I joined the two out at Matthewson site on Monday for an afternoon of transplanting tomatoes, spicy hot peppers, and great discussion about local and global agriculture under the shade of the trees.
One cool thing I learned yesterday was the spicy and sweet peppers have to be planted far apart, otherwise the spicy pepper will spread their spicyness to the sweet peppers. So we planted a row of hot peppers, to be followed by mild, then eventually sweet, alternating colors as we went to help Catherine and Matt tell the difference between the dozens of varieties they plant each year.

But now its your turn to head out the farm, get your hands dirty and make a dent on your sweat equity hours.

Here's the schedule for the rest of the week:

Wednesday: Harvest and Pick Up Day - Johnston
Catherine could use about two people for some harvest help after 9.
She could also use someone around 3 to help with CSA set-up.

Thursday: Farmers Market and Transplanting Day
They will be harvesting in the morning for the afternoon farmers market and could use a hand or two.
If the afternoon hours, join Matt for prepping beds and transplanting

Friday: Maintenance Day
We need some people to do some mowing, weeding and mulching.
Ideally catherine wants to regular help with this, especially mowing.

Saturday: Catch Up Day at the City Gardens
More info to come...

We'll have a sign up sheet at the farm for the pick up this wednesday - try to find some time to put in an hour or two in the next week. Catherine, Mat, and the fields would greatly appreciate it!

For a few of you who have already gone out (thanks for updating the spreadsheet!) - what are your stories? Post your stories to the comment section or email me and I can post them for you.

If you can come out tomorrow (wednesday) to help with the harvest or CSA set-up, please email me: hannah@farmfreshri.org, or catherine at marsfarmer@yahoo.com.

Thanks!
Hannah