Morven Spring Open House
This weekend was gorgeous, and Saturday was the perfect day to welcome newcomers to the garden for our spring open house. Shoutout to all the great folks who made it out to the garden even though it was Easter/Passover weekend. It was a great day for garden tours and learning more about the sustainable farming that goes on at MKG.Unfortunately, since it's still relatively early in the planting season, and this winter and spring has been so unpredictable (it might snow on this weekend? In April!?) the garden doesn't have much growing outside of the hoophouse. Nevertheless, our great exec team tilled beds and set out tools to give visitors an idea of our timeline, process, and what's to come. We hope everyone was able to try out a gardening tool, and is motivated to come out when planting begins! Visitors also potted plants and were able to take them home
Garden tour and tool explaination
Visitors potting plants. Choices were lettuce, swiss chard, and parsley
Our first planting workday is this Friday, so contact morvenkitchengarden@gmail.com if you want to get your hands dirty. It's a lot of fun!If you missed this weekend's Open House, don't fret! There are plenty more upcoming opportunities to get out to our beautiful garden:
- Saturday, April 7: Madison House Big Event will welcome volunteers from 10:30-1:30
- On going: Weekly workdays. Contact morvenkitchengarden@gmail.com to get on our listserv and get into a carpool!
- Monday 4/16: Central Grounds Ampitheater. We will be selling plants as a part of the Earth Day Farmers Market from 12:00-4:00
Sign up for a workday! And helping out with a harvest like this one (pictured below) could be in your future!
These beautiful salad greens were grown in our hoophouse and harvested today! They will be sold to Boar's Head and Greens to Grounds. (Above: mixed greens, below: mizouna)
