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On the farm

Spring Community Planting Days!

It is that time of year when we drum up the energy to welcome our tender seedling babies and plant their roots into their new home at our farm. We invite you and please invite any of your people to come be a part of this exciting homecoming. We will have herbal tea, snacks, and other surprise goodies. 

1st Planting Party Day:
Saturday May 16th 9-2

AND

2nd Planting Party Day: 
Saturday May 23rd 9-2

Bring a bottle for water and any sun gear you might need!
1075 Gypsy Hill Rd
Lancaster PA 17603

Look out for the stone retaining wall, enter the lane up the hill, and continue until you see our farm sign. Follow arrows to parking. Carpooling encouraged and an easy bike ride from Lancaster city.

Questions? contact 717-799-7420
Click here to view the event on facebook.



CSM Shares!

Community Supported Medicine is the reason we're here. It is our passion, our mission, and our gift to you.

CSM Shares consist of a once-monthly delivery of 3-5 hand crafted herbal products, fresh/dried herbs and a beautiful newsletter containing information about utilizing them for keeping you and your family healthy throughout the year. Variable with the season, you may receive items like detoxifying and digestive support tonics, healing skin salves, freshly infused therapeutic skin oils, fresh and dried beneficial tea blends, and rejuvenating bath salts. 

The deadline to sign up for your share is next week! Don't miss your chance to reap the benefits of our farm season and feel the love and healing power of plants.

Click here to sign up now!

In our community

Susquehanna Forest School!

Some of our dearest friends are starting an amazing nature immersion school for kids and have openings in their summer camp for children ages 3-8. They are a passionate and talented group of people who hope to share their love for the wild with our children.

We support their work with open hearts and hope you will too. Please visit Susquehanna Forest School online to learn more about this unique and incredible opportunity for our youth, find out how you can help, and to sign up for summer camp.

Click here to sign up now! Or, click here to follow them on facebook.

Farming is hard work!

In the first few weeks here on our small farm, we've already harvested hundreds of pounds of spring herbs! Nettles, dandelion, dock, and spicebush have graced the drying room with the first scents of spring. We've spent countless hours hoeing, planting, mulching. The asparagus is growing so fast we can't keep up with it!

         

But who is doing the most work?

This weekend, we got two new honeybee hives delivered and moved them into their new homes- one of which was custom built, just for them, out of an old Oak. More than 3000 bees live and work together in each hive, constantly moving, always hard at work. This week, the new bees will be working to find their queen, establish ranks, and get acclimated to their new surroundings. Once they're familiar with the farm, they will join the rest of our hives in arguably the hardest work there is- pollinating.

Then there are the plants- the reason we are all here. Eli pointed out this week that despite all of our sweat and sore muscles, it is really the plants that do the work on the farm. Started from tiny seeds just weeks ago, our green friends have grown in leaps and bounds, stretching and digging deep to root into the Earth that we've prepared for them. In the coming months, we'll see them reach their full potential as they blossom, bloom, and heal.

We're all working hard out here on the farm.
Humans, insects, plants, and more- together we make it happen.

Now get back to work!
Shauna

A week of firsts

The first week of the season is always a memorable one filled with new friends, sore muscles, fresh eyes, and the return of the comfrey.

At orientation, our first-year interns greeted each other for the first time and our returning folks were pumped to welcome new members to the farmily. Eli showed us safe practices for working together on a certified organic farm- it's serious business, folks! Together, we toured the farm, got a first look at the upgraded drying room (it's amazing), and enjoyed talking story. Casey taught us all about the bees, including the ins and outs of top bar hives. Many of us had never seen the inside of a hive before.

In our first few days working as a new team we planted onions and shallots (also a first here), bagged up a big batch of mint tea for the Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA members and Unite For Her, organized, mulched the perennials, weeded and composted, harvested our first round of nettles and garlic mustard, and spent time getting to know one another. In our spare time we even rescued a baby squirrel and got a new farm truck.

It will be great to be able to look back on this week of firsts at the end of the season and see how things have grown. Here's to a great growing season! See you on the farm.
                                     

                                                 ~Shauna

Photos by Slyorty