Inspirational Story - New Roots Community Farm

This is a quick, inspiring read in the LA Times about New Roots Community Farm - community gardening, sustainable food, immigrants from war-torn countries building community and gaining access to healthy food.

Planting Blueberry Plants

We planted blueberry plants this weekend! Along with our existing raspberry and strawberry plants, we're looking forward to a summer munching on yummy berries.

Thanks Ollie and Melanie for the inspiration and help to plant our blueberry plants!

Growing a Revolution

Metro Silicon Valley recently had a cover story that featured several of our favorite local urban farming projects including Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale, Veggielution in East San Jose and Happy Quail Farms in East Palo Alto.

Check out the article here.

Recycled Board Books!

One of our favorite books is In The Garden, made by innovativeKids. They have a whole set of really cute board books made out of 98% recycled materials with nature and eco-friendly themes like gardens, trees, and baby animals.

It's neat to see pictures of how different veggies grow - on trees, vines, bushes or underground. Especially since we can read about pulling carrots out of the ground and picking peas/beans off the vine, and then go to our community garden to do it for real!

Friends In Our Garden

One of the best things about our community garden plot is being able to take our friends to visit. We can show them what we have growing in the garden (right now: corn, peppers, carrots, snap peas, butternut squash, beets, fennel, leeks, and raspberries), and our friends can see how all these veggies grow.

Our friend Fiona recently came to our garden to pick some peppers.

In The Garden

This is me, Kaiya. In my Dad's community garden plot. Look at the pepper I just picked!

I'm excited that Dad set up this blog for me so I can tell you about my adventures in Dad's garden, on the train, to the farmer's market or just roaming around downtown Mountain View.