Hello Friends of the Farm!

We have come to look at these wonderful sunny days as another "bad weather" day. The sun, warm temps and windy conditions have been drying out our fields and we are grateful to finally see an April shower. The upside is that the dry weather has made great conditions for transplanting and preparing our soil for seeds. Carrots, cilantro, beets, lettuce and more should be sprouting up any day now.

Renaissance Farmer Scott has been fixing up leaky hydrants and has completed his first solo welding project. Way to go Scott! These days he can be spotted out in the fields driving Big Orange and pulling the transplanter behind him.

There has been a makeover in our blackberry and raspberry patch thanks to Del, Pat, Brian, Matt, John, Eric and Law Reh, who have been stripping back pesky weeds and dressing the beds up with fresh wood chips.

Ready, Set, Fertilize!

Bob McClure has been putting in lots of extra hours building a custom designed fertilizer dispenser that works with our mulch layer. Yesterday we had our first test run and it passed with flying colors. This allows us to add organic fertilizer to our fields at the same time as we lay down drip irrigation and plastic mulch. Thank you Bob for sharing your skill, your time and your ingenuity!!! We will soon be putting this to good use as we prepare to plant thousands of onion plants.

Bob displays the new Fertilizer Box



Getting a Farm Education

Shareholder and Millersville Professor Kendra Saunders brought the members of her "Food for Thought" class out for a tour of the farm this week. They are studying the impact of the American diet and got their hands dirty planting broccoli and cabbage plants into the field. We appreciated their fresh perspective on farm work and their fun energy. Thank you Kendra and team.

Thanks to Brandon and Abbby of Susquehanna Farm School for kicking off the season with a great workshop on Tuesday night. From worm composting to perennial greens to mushrooms, these farmers have great techniques that can work in your home garden or on a larger scale. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us.

Could Goodwill help your small business?

If you are interested in learning more about how Goodwill works with local businesses to provide services like shredding, collating, labeling and hand packaging, please contact Phil Metzler at pmetzler@yourgoodwill.org or 717-232-1831.

Opening Harvest Coming Soon

Looking forward to seeing everyone back at the farm for our first harvest on June 7, 8 and 9! It will be here before we know it.


Your Farmers,
Scott, Kim, Law Reh and Elizabeth      

Hello Friends of the Farm!

 Another week goes quickly by at the farm, but your farmers are stepping quickly, planting over 6,000 feet of potatoes, 4,000 pepper plants, chipping brush, mulching the berries, putting up stakes and trellis for snow peas and much more.Never a dull moment, as we also had some plumbing repairs, worked on a possible potato digger conversion,  making an organic fertilizer precision dropper, a harvest rack for the tractor, concrete work, sawmill and wood splitting operation, field tillage, major landscaping work, and chased an escaped herd of zebras runing though the farm (ok, one of those is inaccurate and pertains to the day of April. ) 

Shares available for the 2012 season  If you know anyone who is interested in our food from the fields, here is a link where they can sign up for a share:http://goodwillathomefieldsfarm.csasignup.com/members

Fruit Shares from North Star Orchard:

If you haven't heard, we will be a pick up site for a fruit share from North Star Orchard. Ike and Lisa are long-time fruit growers and know their stuff, and often appear in regional and national publications. If you'd like to receive their tree fruit starting in mid-summer, go to http://www.northstarorchard.com/csa.php to sign up or learn more about their outstanding peaches, apples, Asian pears, plums and other tree fruit.  

Looking forward to our first harvest, only a few short months away. Thank you for supporting our farm!Your Farmers