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Farm Happenings at Dickinson College Farm
Farm Happenings for July 2, 2024
Hello CSA Members,
Important! If you are receiving this email, that means your share will be delivered on Tuesday! Even if you are typically a Friday picker-upper! With the holiday we consolidated all deliveries to Tuesday next week so our staff can enjoy some family time. If you typically pick up1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 28, 2024
Hello all,
We are grateful for some more mild weather here on the farm. It was tough to keep up with the irrigation needs last week. Our irrigation pond is supplemented with a solar powered well pump but it was not nearly keeping pace with the rate at which we were pumping water out of the pond to1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 25, 2024
Hello all,
TGIF! This has been a hot, challenging week. Our crew has stood tall through some unseasonably warm, dry weather tackling jobs on the farm big and small.
We also had the special privilege to host Governor Josh Shapiro at the farm yesterday. He came to address the exciting anaerobic diges1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 21, 2024
Hello All,
Summer is upon us! We have a busy week of irrigation ahead. Myself, our crew leader Kelsey, and apprentices Shanti and Alex D, are working daily to keep our crops watered. This involves setting up our irrigation reels (think industrial garden sprinkler) and our drip lines that run under1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 18, 2024
Hello All,
Our irrigation team sure has been busy this week. While it's tough to run back and forth setting up irrigation systems, our plants prefer that we control the water they receive rather than the rains. It also alleviates some weed and plant disease pressure across the farm.
This year1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 14, 2024
Hello All,
The big push on the farm this week is to get the greenhouses transitioned from Spring to Summer. For the most part, that means growing a heat loving cover crop in there to prepare for the fall planting. We will also plant a few tomatoes in one of our houses that'll (hopefully) produce fr1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 11, 2024
Hello all,
With warm weather, scattered rain storms, and fireflies it feels like summer here on the farm. We have been planting non stop all week - tomatoes, sweet potatoes, the first peppers, and a huge wave of summer lettuces. We also seeded the first fall brassicas (things like broccoli, caulifl1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 7, 2024
Happy June!
The full crew is here for the summer and everyone is off to a great start.
This week is a big planting week for us. After harvest this morning, the full crew will plant our sweet potato crop for the year. This afternoon, our transplant team will plant our first tomato crop.
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Farm Happenings for June 4, 2024
Hello All,
Welcome to week 3! More typical spring fare on the menu this week.
This has been a busy week on the farm. The rest of the summer students started this week. Everything is a chaotic enough as everyone learns the lay of the land (literally and figuratively), but this was also an important1 read more »
About the farm
The Dickinson College Farm is an eighty-acre, USDA-certified organic farm and a living laboratory where students can gain distinctive, hands-on learning experiences. Student employees, graduate apprentices and volunteers are involved in all aspects of food production and research. The farm serves as a venue for the Dickinson community and its neighbors to experience a holistic approach to land stewardship rooted in management practices that work to sustain the natural environment.
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