Dirt Days May 18th

Join us for Dirt Days at the
Clintonville Farmer Market!

This Saturday May 18th 9-12pm

 We will have buckets of worm castings for your kids to sift through
and see what they can find. Everything from itty bitty food scraps

to hungry worms! Come find us in Clintonville Saturday.

 

Night Soil

We stay away from composting human manure. (No safe place for it on an urban farm) But I know some folks that swear by it as a great way to create more compost for plants and keep waste out of the waste streamline.

Here is a great article on another person discovery "Is it safe to compost human waste" on NPR

 

Worm Pick ups

Now is the time of year everyone is getting excited getting their hands dirty, planting seeds and best of all - start worm composting!

Thank you for all the calls asking about ordering worms, we have plenty! Right now we are arranging pick ups with
Shawn at City Folks Farm Shop.

www.cityfolksfarmshop.com/contact-us/

How do I order? You can order them with us or with Shawn and we will have them at City Folks for pick up on Tuesdays. Check out their site for open hours.
It's that simple!

 

Happy Composting!!

 

You can...

You can make a small fortune in farming - provided you start with a large one.

- Unknown

 

Winter 2013

 

Remember this winter, we lay low, worms eat slow. Until late March, We are slow to respond to emails and posts, sorry we will reply as soon as we can.

We wish we could hibernate this time of year but our kids wont let us :)

 

Farming looks...

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil,

and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

~President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dirt! The Event November 4th!

Dirt! the Event, The Film, The Food

 

Sunday November 4th, 2012  5pm

Wild Goose Creative  $10 for tickets

 

Bring your compost and soil questions to the Film screening of Dirt! : A movie with heart and soil. Root vegetable cooking competition, and Root Vegetable themed art gallery too!.

Bring a root vegetable dish for the competition! Come be inspired by root vegetable inspired artwork! All proceeds go to Wild Goose Creative and Franklinton Gardens!

 

Schedule: Sunday, November 4, 2012
5:00PM @ WGC | Food, Art & Conversation, Dirt! Root Vegetable food competition judging
6:00PM @ WGC| Screening: Dirt! The Movie followed by Q&A discussion
7:30PM @ WGC | Dirt! Root Vegetable food competition judging winner announced

 

The Event
We will learn about dirt and soil and its beauty, starting with Dirt! The Movie: A movie with heart and soil. Afterward we’ll continue the party with a Q&A panel about healthy soil and composting with local experts. Root vegetable cooking competition will feature a host of local entries judged by our Q&A guest panelists. And if that wasn’t enough this special evening will also feature a collection of talented local visual artists and crafters riffing on this uniquely themed gallery.

The Film
DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling ruin. “Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.”

The Food!
Root Vegetable Cooking Competition
Fall is the season for root vegetables. Do you have a favorite way to eat or prepare root vegetables? Do you have a fantastic recipe to share? Then we would love to have you share your dish with us! Register at wildgoosecreative.com/dirt Prizes will be awarded for the judges’ favorite root vegetable dishes. Entries are welcome in any category and will be judged based on taste, texture, visual appeal, and creativity. Please make your entry for 30-40 people. Contest is limited to 12 entries, so register soon!