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Time to Prepare for Winter!
Monday, October 10th, 2011
We have been preparing Beardsley Community Farm for winter and remembered a former blog post from 2009 that is so useful we had to share! We added a few extra tips and hope that they are just as helpful for you. A few tips for cool season crops: – Interseed carrots and radishes in the [...]
Welcome AmeriCorps Members!
Monday, September 12th, 2011
We arrived at Beardsley during a time of transition between the seasons. Although the okra, peppers, and tomatoes were still producing—and although it was still quite hot outside—there was already a tinge of fall in the air. Almost immediately upon our arrival, we began to direct-seed fall greens and roots: kale, collards, chard, lettuce, turnips, [...]
Summer’s End
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
This was Beardsley Farm’s fourth summer in the Workforce Connections Summer Youth Program. This summer, Jordan Tallent, Andrew Perkins, and Jordan Heatherly helped maintain the farm. They learned a lot about growing food, spent hours weeding, doing farm chores, and working with volunteers. They were a terrific crew! They will be missed. This summer there [...]
Celebrity Volunteer: WDVX’s Red Hickey
Monday, August 1st, 2011
We really enjoyed having Red Hickey from WDVX volunteer with us in June. All the folks at CAC Beardsley Community Farm and WDVX love to bring people together for a shared purpose whether it’s through planting seeds or listening to harmonizing voices and good tunes! What would we do without gardens, food, and good music? [...]
Celebrity Volunteers: Knoxville’s Leading Women
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Knoxville’s Leading Women is a group that fulfills everything promised in its title. The ladies of KLW are not only leaders in Knoxville’s business and industry, but are community leaders and mobilizers as well. Several of these wonderful women came to CAC Beardsley Community Farm as a group of celebrity volunteers in one of our [...]
