Community Farm's Final Harvest

Details

Created on Friday, 19 October 2012 16:36

Written by Brian Stone

ST. JOHNSBURY - As winter approaches, the St. Johnsbury Community Farm is starting to plan for the final harvest and get the farm ready for winter. The farm, located on Old Center Road, provides fresh vegetables to local food shelves, as well as the St. Johnsbury meal site.

Volunteers from around the area plant, maintain, and harvest the crops all spring and summer.

The farm is now in the process of harvesting the remaining vegetables before the cold damages the crops.

"We've got to get a lot of the food that isn't growing and was affected by the frost, all of those crops have to come out," said Melissa Bridges, a member of the Local Food Alliance, "We do have some root vegetables in the ground that we will probably begin harvesting so we can get those to the food shelves and the meal sites and into the hands of the volunteers."

Although the farm did have a successful season, Bridges wishes more people would get involved, to help grow the farm and their projects.

"It's a great project, but we really need volunteers to keep it going, there's a great need in the community for free healthy food," Bridges said. "We did refine what we were growing based on feedback from last year and what the community wants, the community is needing and using."

The farm will begin plant for their crop sometime in the spring, depending on the weather.