Our Permaculture based Summer Art-Farm programs are presented as a new-old way to learn a way of life and design system that is rooted in agriculture–yet expands to include a multitude of issues that ally ourselves with nature.
In Permaculture, we take a good look at the world all around us, and, integrate our energies rather than trying to control it. The practice of care taking our human family, care-taking the earth and giving something back are the ethics that Permaculture is based upon and is at the heart of what Little Artshram presents in all of its programs.
We use twelve basic Permaculture principals in our Art-Farm curriculum which lead us on the path of discovery that we are a part of nature working alongside of nature, not separated from it.
June 10, 2010
Greetings to our Youth-Market Garden CSA members and friends!
We still have shares available if you know anyone else who'd like to participate in Traverse City's FIRST urban CSA!
We are happy to announce that even though we've been in the greenhouse and in the gardens since early March, the beginning of our CSA season finally and officially starts next Friday, June 18th!
For our first CSA pick-up, we would like to invite you and your family to join us for a picnic and community and Youth-Market Garden tour, on June 18th, from 5:30 until 7:30 pm.
This will happen right at our community garden site, down near the big barns where we are growing your food, rather than at the Village Farmers Market site. (See directions below to our gardens)
We plan to harvest salad greens, arugula, radishes and garlic scapes. We'll also be sending you home with basil, chive and sage plants (in pots), that you can either transplant into your garden, or keep in pots on your window sill or patio, and snip as needed.
We're looking forward to this tour, realizing that even after several weeks of good, hard work, we are really just getting started. We've put a lot of time into designing, shaping and planting the garden beds and they are really looking green and great! One of our biggest tasks has been to organize a watering system, and still have some work to do, to make this more efficient. We are VERY grateful to have our pump hooked up to a generator, helping us transport the water through hoses to our water barrels in each section of the Y-M Gardens.
Thanks for helping our Youth-Market Garden and CSA grow! We think this is going to be a great summer!
Nikki, Chris, Scott, Zach, Shelby
and Penny
- the blessed water barrels FULL!
- Second week of May, seeds in the beds.
Download the copy of our Youth-Market Garden CSA brochure, pictured below: http://www.littleartshram.org/docs/ymcsa.pdf
