At Common Good City Farm, our community can source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in At CGCF our community can source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and gain exposure to concepts and skills to lead healthy lives.
Operating as usual
Join Chef Eyocko @laheimeinu for this introductory salad-making class designed to teach you how to make an umami-forward Lentil Swiss Chard Salad with Grilled Oyster Mushrooms.
Thursday, June 30
6:30 - 8:30 pm
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/salad-demo
Cherry 🍒 season is here! Come pick up some cherries along with other farm produce at our Farm Market this Wednesday from 3:30 to 6:30 pm!
Featured produce include
Baby Bok Choy
Blackberries
Blueberries 🫐
Broccoli 🥦
Cherries 🍒
Collards
Green Beans
Hakurei & Scarlet Queen Turnips
Kale
Spinach
Spring onions
Spring braising mix
Sprouting Broccoli
Strawberries 🍓
Sugar Snap Peas
Swiss chard
Tomatoes 🍅
Seedlings 🌱
Tomato seedlings: Cuba Libre, Gin Fizz, Sweetie, White Cherry, Defiant, BHN 1021, Green Zebra
Hot Pepper Seedlings: Tam jalepeno, Long cayenne, Fish pepper
Sweet Pepper Seedlings: Purple beauty bell pepper, Escamillo sweet pepper, Carmen sweet pepper
Parsley Seedlings
Cilantro Seedlings
Basil Seedlings: Thai Basil, Italian Basil, Purple Basil
Learn how to select & combine the best herbs to make your own unique tea blend!
Creativi-Tea: Making Herbal Loose Leaf Tea with Ebony Payne of @districtherbs
Monday, June 27
6 - 8 pm
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/herbal-tea
Learn how to select & combine the best herbs to make your own unique tea blend!
Creativi-Tea: Making Herbal Loose Leaf Tea with Ebony Payne
Monday, June 27
6 - 8 pm
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/herbal-tea
June Newsletter: In Solidarity with Buffalo & Updates from the Farm -
Common Good City Farm, our Board, Staff, and Volunteers stand in support of the people of East Buffalo in the wake of the horrible white supremacist terrorism enacted upon that community. Even as this atrocious incident unfolded, we know that generations of disinvestment in Black and Brown communiti...
Update: Compost Coop Training & Work Day will be on Sunday, June 19 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
Are you interested in joining the Compost Cooperative? Attend this upcoming training. Once you have attended the training, you can drop off your food scraps in the compost bin at any time.
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/june-compost-training
Sunday, June 19
10:30 - 11:30 am: Compost training for people interested in joining the compost coop
11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Compost Work Day to assist with moving items from Bin 1 to 2
The LEAF Youth program is cancelled today 6/2 due to the severe thunderstorm forecast. Join us for our next class on Sunday at 4:30 or for Youth Garden Open Hours on Tuesday from 4:30-6:00 #commongoodyouth
We are hiring an Interim Communications & Events Manager! This is a full-time job from June 20 to November 9. Apply by Friday, June 10. Full job description available at https://www.commongoodcityfarm.org/jobs-and-internships
Join us this Saturday, June 4 for Farm + Fit!
10-11 am: workout in the @theparkatledroit with @getstrongfitness
11 am - 1 pm: Farm Market with Farm Programs Manager @marc.james
RSVP: https://junefarmfit.eventbrite.com
Learning how to make and can strawberry 🍓 jam with Nick Moyer.
Interested in getting some of this strawberry jam? You can buy some at our Farm Market on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 6:30 pm.
Grateful to be able to partner with @melansoulflower of Eat For Beauty to host this Mindful Eating workshop
Eat colorfully🤎💗💛💚💙
bliss|full | farm to table meal & mindful eating workshop @commongoodcityfarm 🌻✨
@eatforbeauty.co prepared a mostly raw meal experience with many ingredients sourced from our farm and partner farms:
Marinated Jerk-Style Sh*take Mushrooms
Grilled Asparagus & Broccoli Rabe
Pickled Beets & Radish
Cucumber Relish
Mixed Spring Green Salad
Rainbow Chard Leaf
Dessert: Raw Apple/Date/Cinnamon Balls
Mocktail: Apple, Ginger, Carrot, & Natural Sparkling Water
Eat for Beauty shared simple tools for integrating more mindful eating, wrote and reflected how we would like to heal & deepen our relationships to food, did a juicing demo and shared an intimate meal & food meditation to put everything into practice.
We had a fun time with a local Girl Scout troop joining in on LEAF Youth class yesterday! We took a farm tour with Farmer Foster, harvested strawberries 🍓 and radishes and put our chopping skills to work making a radish slaw! Parents got to taste test too!
Reminder that there is no LEAF class on this Sunday 5/29 due to the holiday weekend.
#commongoodyouth
Lettuce 🥬 grow! Look at how big our lettuce has gotten. Here’s an overhead shot of the lettuce (Photo 2) and a photo of the lettuce from April 19, five weeks ago (Photo 3).
Pick up some of this lettuce & more at our upcoming Farm Market this Wednesday from 3:30 to 6:30 pm.
Highlights at this upcoming market include garlic scapes, Hakurei & Scarlet queen turnips, sprouting broccoli 🥦, and more! We should have cherries 🍒 and it will be the last week for our spicy mix salad greens!
This spring, we hosted 8 high school interns who participated in the Certificate Program in Regenerative Urban Agriculture. Over the course of several months from February to May, the interns learned about and participated in crop planning, plant propagation, bed prep, soil science, composting, companion planting, integrated pest management, irrigation, nutrient management, harvesting, food preservation, and more! The students worked on 3 group projects: 3-bin system composting, bokashi composting, and rain garden.
Pictured here: the students with their group projects as well as Farm Educator Nia Kiara Cole showcasing the farewell meal they prepared with mac and cheese, sautéed collards harvested from the farm, whole roast chicken from @deeprootsfarm, and corn.
Congratulations to the students for completing the internship!
Join us this Thursday, May 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for Bliss|full, a farm to table meal & mindful eating workshop with @eatforbeauty.co. Pictured here: Melan Shannon, co-founder of eat for beauty with several bunches of beets for the event this Thursday.
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/bliss-full-meal
Menu：
Mocktail: Apple, Ginger, Carrot, Honey, Cinnamon, Lemon + Natural Sparkling Water
Main Dish: Marinated Jerk-Style Mushrooms w/ Swiss Chard Wrap
Grilled Asparagus, Broccoli, Broccoli Rabe
Pickled Beets & Radish
Cucumber Relish
Side Mixed Green Salad w/ Spring Dressing
Dessert: Raw Apple/Blueberry Tarts
Closing Tea: Mint, Lemon Balm, Lavender
About Melan: Melan is the cofounder of eat for beauty and a nomadic & multifaceted creative based in the dmv who uses healing arts (music, writing, curation) to fuel her freedom and self-realization, and spark the same in others. She also creates content & spaces for eat for beauty that center making holistic health & plant-based living more accessible. She is deeply inspired by nature, the power of vulnerability, and the technology of the soul.
A belated thank you for everyone for coming out to our A Night on the Farm dinner with @chefmorganjames!
📸: @bruke.eth
Have you bought tickets for A Night on the Farm Dinner with @chefajzuluaga of @blend111vienna on Thursday, June 9 yet? Don’t miss out!
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/june-farm-dinner
A few scenes from yesterday’s Art Party and LEAF class- our new raised beds are looking great thanks to all of our neighbors who stopped by to add a stencil! We’ll share final pics of the beds soon!
#commongoodyouth
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Common Good Salad Slam! All salads got votes, but the winner was the sweet potato lentil salad with arugula! Thank you to @plant3r_ and @janisleslieevans for joining us!
Join us tonight for our rescheduled Salad Slam! Come by the farm between 6 and 8 to try a variety of salads, check out the space, and enjoy kids activities!
We’ll be serving kale caeser salad, spring pasta salad, southwest salad and lentil sweet potato salad!
Hi folks! Due to the predicted thunderstorms this evening, we are postponing the Salad Slam until Tuesday, May 17th! We hope to see you there for some fresh, amazing salads and activities!
Kids Art Party!
Have you noticed the new raised beds in front of the farm? They are an extension of our youth garden space and we need kids from around the neighborhood to help make them special!
Coming up on Sunday, May 22, join us anytime between 3:00 and 4:30 to add your mark- we’ll be stenciling fruits and veggie images, so wear paint ready clothes and come on over to see us! We’ll have some light snacks available.
The raised beds are located by the main farm gate just opposite the playground in the Park at LeDroit.
Kids are also invited to stay for LEAF class right after from 4:30-5:45!
And a special thanks to local artist Aiyana Adams for making custom stencils for us to use!
#commongoodyouth
Join us in welcoming Val to the team as our new Farm Assistant! Val was called to return to the land just 6 years ago when they found a deep connection to herbal medicine, just before focusing on agriculture as an “ehakihet” or farmer. While farming has been a part of both sides of their family, they’ve felt drawn to the land to do their own work in agriculture, combining today’s methods of farming with methods their Piscataway ancestors and living elders practiced. Val feels a deep calling to work with Mama Earth to reclaim and remember a relationship with the land, water, and plant and animal relatives. Aside from farming both vegetables and livestock, their other work is in natural resource stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay. In their spare time, you can catch Val hunting wild edibles in a local forest.
Welcome Jaime! Jaime is our new Farm and Market Assistant. As a budding farmer, herbalist and bee keeper in training, her interest in agriculture was ignited during the height of the 2020 pandemic. Jaime enjoys cooking, holistic medicine, and teaching young people all about the beauty of this earth. Be sure to say hi to Jaime at one of our Farm Markets!
May is packed with students visiting the farm for field trips! A big thank you to students from Raymond Elementary who came yesterday with their @dc_scores team to learn all about the farm and help us with some weeding and watering! #commongoodyouth
So excited to partner with @chinese_street_market to host this Crystal Dumpling 🥟 workshop on Tuesday, June 14 from 6-8 pm.
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/crystal-shrimp-dumplings-workshop
Join us for an awakening & meditative meal experience curated by @eatforbeauty.co . We will center the in-season produce at Common Good City Farm and provide a living foods centered/plant-based meal and guided food meditation.
Thursday, May 26
6:30 - 8:30 pm
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/bliss-full-meal
Menu (subject to change based on produce availability):
Mocktail: Apple, Ginger, Carrot, Honey, Cinnamon, Lemon + Natural Sparkling Water
Main Dish: Marinated Jerk-Style Crimini Mushrooms w/ Swiss Chard or Collard Wrap
Grilled Asparagus, Broccoli, Broccoli Rabe
Pickled Beets & Radish
Cucumber Relish
Side Mixed Green Salad w/ Spring Dressing
Dessert: Raw Apple/Blueberry Tarts
Closing Tea: Mint, Lemon Balm, Lavender
About the Instructor:
Melan Shannon is a co-founder of eat for beauty and a nomadic & multifaceted creative based in the dmv who uses healing arts (music, writing, curation) to fuel her freedom and self-realization, and spark the same in others. She also creates content & spaces for eat for beauty that center making holistic health & plant-based living more accessible. She is deeply inspired by nature, the power of vulnerability, and the technology of the soul.
300 V St NW
Washington D.C., DC
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