Black Earth Gardens

06/18/2026

Planting season is in full swing! We’re planting tomatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupe, and basil this week.

06/03/2026

First harvest of the year… lettuce as big as your head! 🤩🥬

04/28/2026

Find our vegetable and herb plants THIS WEEKEND at the Indian Creek Nature Center Plant & Art Sale! SNAP and WIC participants enjoy 20% off at our booth.

https://indiancreeknaturecenter.org/annual-event/spring-plant-art-sale/

04/04/2026

Don't miss this year's Spring Plant & Art Sale at the Indian Creek Nature Center! Black Earth Gardens will be selling vegetable and herb plants for your garden.

https://indiancreeknaturecenter.org/annual-event/spring-plant-art-sale/

03/07/2026

LAST CHANCE to order your garden plants! Registration for our Seedling CSA closes Tuesday, March 10.

Learn more & sign up: https://trowelanderrorfarm.com/seedling-csa/

03/05/2026

Join us for a seed-starting workshop designed to teach gardeners how to grow their own veggie & herb transplants indoors. Learn what plants you can start indoors and when, what equipment you need, and how to troubleshoot common problems. Led by Mari Hunt Wassink of Black Earth Gardens and hosted by the African American Museum of Iowa.

Learn more & register: https://blackiowa.org/event/seed-starting-workshop

02/24/2026

Get your garden plants from local farmers this spring 🪴 We are offering a Seedling CSA with Trowel and Error Farm for the first time. Vegetables, herbs, and native plants available to choose from. Pre-order and receive a big discount towards our plant sale in April and May.

Learn more: https://trowelanderrorfarm.com/seedling-csa/

11/14/2025

Fall cleanup begins! Putting the farm to bed for the winter. 😴

11/07/2025

Just harvested 60 lbs of fresh lettuce for HACAP's food reservoir, thanks to a partnership with Field to Family through Choose Iowa.

10/29/2025

In case you missed it... We were in the Sunday newspaper! 🤩

Mari Hunt Wassink combines regenerative farming and social justice, cultivating culturally important crops to make fresh, local food accessible to Eastern Iowans.