Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call June 29, 2010 We’re taking the holiday weekend off to enjoy time with our families but would love your help during the week! Please make sure to email Sun if you are coming out to help (9-1p and again from 4-6, sometimes until 8p). Whether you’re helping at [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Crew Call
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Volunteer on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday morning crew call is a party on the farm!
Posted in Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, tagged Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Haven House, Nyssa Collins, Sun Butler, tomato sucker, Volunteer on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By: Nyssa Collins, NC State correspondent A good turnout can bring twenty volunteers spilling out of cars. We are students and professors from NC State. We are parents and kids of any age, and families from the neighborhood, wondering what the heck is going on. We are school groups, church groups, and service groups (Haven [...]
Crew Call
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Volunteer on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call June 22, 2010 We hope you’re staying cool in this heat! Sun and Steven are at the farm mornings (9-1p) and late afternoons (4-6, sometimes as late as 8p) but are getting out of the heat during the middle of the day. Please make sure to email Sun [...]
Crew Call 6/15-6/19
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Chapel Hill, Community Gardens, Crew Call, Food Shuttle Farm, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Raleigh, Volunteer on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call June 15, 2010 Whew, it is HOT out there! Sun and Steven are at the farm mornings (9-1p) and late afternoons (4-6, sometimes as late as 8p) but are getting out of the heat during the middle of the day. Please make sure to email Sun if you [...]
Ripe Recipe
Posted in Ripe Recipe, tagged beets, green beans, Ripe Recipe, Sally Bache on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Ripe Recipe is fresh from the kitchen of Sally Bache! We’ve got green beans & beets ready in our garden now, and I’ve been trying to use them up. Last night I did something that turned out pretty great, if I do say so myself. Grilled Beets and Green Beans topped with Goat Cheese [...]
Nyssa’s tips for transplanting peppers
Posted in Food Shuttle Farm, tagged Nyssa Collins, transplanting peppers on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By: Nyssa Collins, NC State correspondent 1. Punch a hole through the black plastic 2. Fertilize with granulated chicken manure 3. Remove the plant and loosen the root ball 4. Bury the plant at ground level, packing in dirt firmly at the base. 5. Water thoroughly, to restore turgor in the plant and ease recovery [...]
Crew Call 6/9-6/12
Posted in Crew Call, tagged Community Gardens, Crew Call, donate produce, Plant A Row for the Hungry, Raleigh, Steven Horton, Volunteer on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and Garden Crew-Call June 9, 2010 Thank you all so much for your emails, calls and appearance at the City Council meeting last week. Your support of the Food Shuttle’s programs in Raleigh have not gone unnoticed! VOLUNTEER TIMES & EVENTS: · Farm, Work day, Saturday between 9a-2p (4505 Tryon Road) [...]
Nyssa reports on the veggie growth and diversity at the Farm
Posted in Food Shuttle Farm, tagged donate produce, Farms, Food Shuttle Farm, Nyssa Collins, organic farming, Volunteer on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By: Nyssa Collins, NC State Correspondent A few days of rain followed by days full of hot, clear sunlight: the recipe for vegetables growing like weeds! Come see bulbous green tomatoes with their first blush of pink, tiny baby squash peeking out from under giant leaves, and peppers, which all start out green, but will [...]
Elizabeth’s Friday Full of Fun!
Posted in Community Gardens, Food Shuttle Farm, Steven's Blog, tagged Community Gardens, donate produce, Elizabeth's Friday Full of Fun!, Farms, Food Shuttle Farm, garden, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Steven Horton on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By: Elizabeth Stahl, IFFS Communication Intern Continuing to expand my knowledge of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, I learned food banks and food rescue organizations are quite similar. As you may remember from my previous blog post, I have a connection to MANNA Food Bank which works hand-in-hand with the Plant A Row program and community distribution [...]
Alleviating hunger is just one click away – vote for IFFS!
Posted in Food Shuttle Farm, General, tagged Carborro, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, teaching farm, Triangle Land Conservancy on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We need YOUR vote to win support for a teaching and production farm in Carborro, NC! Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has teamed up with Triangle Land Conservancy for a national contest to win a grant to develop a farm site. The organic farm would grow produce for men, women and children who cannot feed themselves in [...]
