This is a short update on the garden. As everyone who has visited the garden must know, the fava beans are growing everywhere with beans on them. Last Friday workday we harvested 12 1/2 lbs of beans and then on Saturday a woman from the Urban Permaculture class harvested a lot more and brought them to the Free Farm stand. I am guessing they were the same amount. Just for the future I am trying to weigh how much produce we harvest from the garden if it is over a pound. So my guess last week is that we had about 24 lbs of beands. This week we harvested 15 pounds which is a five gall bucket full or one msquare milk crate filled with fava beans. They are very popular at the Free Farm Stand.

We have been having good work days on Fridays and have been planting more vegetables and fruit. This friday we planted some Caroline (everbearing) raspberries in bed 5 (I thinned them out of a bed in another garden and they looked kind of wilty) We alsocplanted some big kale plants in bed 2. Alvin and Bernadette did a lot of work. Our neighbor Travis  came out too and helped. He fertilized the strawberries with a mixture of worm tea and a little fish emulsion that I got free at a garage sale. He also sowed red clover seed underneath the tree fence.

One big news item is that our neighbor Ross on Rhode Island where we get the water from sold his house and is moving out on Wednesday the 29th. David and I figured out the water bill with him and we used the water meter to calculate the bill.. We had to do some guesswork, but we erred on the side favoring him and we will be paying him $116 for the water bill from February until the 29th. On that day we will read the meter and then we should be able to be more accurate. Some things David and I learned is that we are using in the last couple of months aprroximately 100 gals per day of water at 1.2 cents per gal (all this is approximate). Of course we did have that hot spell, but the hill is hot up there where the sun is out. We probaly want to raise money at some point to not only pay for water, but to purchase drip irrigation supplies . We should also try to set up grey water from the othe neighbor up at the top of the hill.

Besides the fava beans the tater towers are rockin and they are greening out.  There seems to be room for a whole lot more to plant and I guess we are waiting for more design work to happen. I will be missing next Friday workday, but David Cody should be there.

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