Around the Farm: Wrapping Up the Season by Dannette Lombert, UW Farm AmeriCorps Member

Like most farms around this time, the UW Farm is officially wrapping up the growing season! We are entering a time of Rest, Reflect, and Refresh, meaning that:

• Most of our beds are cover cropped – inputting nutrients back into the soil, improving water percolation, feeding micro-organisms, and reducing soil erosion
• We are looking back to see what has worked for the farm and what we can improve on, programmatically and production-wise
• We will be completing the crop plan and ordering all our seeds for next year
• We have no volunteer shifts until January 17th (MLK Day), and then continue regular volunteer shifts in February
• The Weekly Dirt becomes the Monthly Dirt

We want to use this portion of the newsletter to thank all of our supporters, CSA members, volunteers, interns, staff members, and anyone who has come in contact with the farm in their own way!

It’s been an amazing season during such a transitional time. This year we have been able to accept community volunteers again, increase our CSA subscriptions, start increasing our sales produce to UW Dining and Athletics, re-start the McMahon Terrace Culinary Garden, expand the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Native Garden, connect with so many individuals and organizations, and start on a strategic plan for the farm.

We couldn’t have done any of this without all of your support so thank you for a great growing season and year for the farm!

With an immense amount of gratitude, we thank you and look forward to seeing you in 2022.