Jumping Spider Farm

04/06/2024

Please support these amazing farmers and community builders if you can!

Our van flipped over into the ditch during the snowstorm Tuesday evening. Thankfully Heather is fine!!! No one was hurt.

11/11/2023

As we prepare our yard for garlic planting on stolen land, we think about Palestinians who should be harvesting and pressing olives from trees planted by their ancestors. We honor Palestinian farmers who cannot return home, because they have been murdered or pushed out by a settler state funded by billions of U.S. tax dollars.

Please keep talking about this, pressuring your reps to enact a ceasefire, boycotting corporations that arm and support Israel’s violence, learning about the history of settler colonialism and ongoing ethnic cleansing and current genocide of Palestinians, speaking out against Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. We need your care and your fight.

12/07/2022

Sam has been gathering seed catalogs, gardening books, and cookbooks to share with students at as they plan their new school garden.

There’s still time to donate to the school garden fundraiser to help make it happen. Link in our bio. Thanks!

12/04/2022

11/29/2022

Fun fact: when Sam isn’t farming, they work at Milestone Democratic School as an advisor and instructor. Milestone is a democratically-run school where students learn through personalized learning, in hopes of serving students who are least served by existing schools.

We’re excited to be working with Milestone and Wonderfarm to help realize their goal of creating a school garden where students can eat the food they grow. The school garden will not only help sustain students, but our families and larger community, as well. When the garden is planted, it will provide daily opportunities for students to be out in nature, growing their own food and learning about food justice.

Currently there’s a fundraiser through SeedMoney to help fund the project! Follow the link to read more about it and consider giving if you’re able or share with others who might be interested. Thanks!

https://donate.seedmoney.org/7966/milestone-democratic-school-garden

09/07/2022

Sometimes the colors + vibrancy of the vegetables are just 😍✨🥲

Slide 1: an overhead view of two sinks, one full of bunches of kale and another with red & orange bell peppers

Slide 2: an overhead view of yellow, orange and red Hungarian hot wax peppers in a sink full of water

Slide 3: an overhead view of shiso bunches in a sink full of water

08/28/2022

Market leftovers = fun snack for the pigs! 🐷❤️🫑

08/09/2022

So happy to see our extra squashes being enjoyed by the Wonderfarm piglets 🐷

07/12/2022

We are entering Week 5 of our CSA (😮) and are feeling so lucky to be growing food for you all. It’s hard work, and the weather, weeds and pests always keep us guessing, but the beauty and bounty of nature bowl us over every day. Thanks to all for supporting us!

ID 1: two hands show two four leaf clovers growing in the grass
ID 2: a small bell pepper grows on a pepper plant
ID 3: a light green panisse lettuce ready to be harvested
ID 4: a crate full of sugar snap peas sits on the ground
ID 5: a pile of bunched carrots sits on a mesh table after being washed

05/12/2022

Sam’s brother Kai came by the farm last weekend to help plant potatoes. First we prepped the bed with a broadfork, stirrup hoe and rake, and then in went four different varieties of potatoes! 🤎🥔

In other springtime news, we’ve got arugula and other greens growing in the hoop house and all the onions are in the ground 🧅✨

AND we’ve only got a few CSA spots left, so if you’re interested in signing up, head over to our website - https://www.jumpingspiderfarm.com/csa

Image descriptions:
Slide 1: a smiling person wearing a jumpsuit holds a blue broadfork in front of a tilled field.
Slide 2: a person in a blue jumpsuit plants a potato in the ground
Slide 3: three people with serious faces hold farm tools while standing in front of a freshly planted field
Slide 4: three rows of green arugula grow in a hoop house
Slide 5: a field with rows of transplanted and watered onions
Slide 6: a close-up view of rows of transplanted onions

04/21/2022

Spring has been slow, but things are growing at the farm (and in our neighborhood)!

Reminder - we still have sliding scale CSA shares available! Visit our website for more details.

Jumpingspiderfarm.com

Image descriptions:
Slide 1: a row of a green and purple plants are sprouting from the dirt.
Slide 2: three rows of arugula are sprouting in the hoop house
Slide 3: a farmer seeds peas in a freshly tilled field
Slide 4: a few aconite flowers bloom in a yard with leaves and grass.