Partnering with Full Moon Farm and News
ICF is excited to share our new lease arrangement with Full Moon Farm in Hinesburg, VT. ICF will lease 5 acres at Full Moon Farm in Hinesburg, where we will grow onions, potatoes, and winter squash this summer.
After losing many crops to flooding in July 2023 and July 2024, ICF successfully replanted many crops. However, we all missed some important crops that didn’t have enough summer remaining to mature, notably potatoes, onions, and winter squash.
Sign up for a summer share here.
When Full Moon Farm co-owners David Zuckerman and Rachel Nevitt offered ICF the option to lease some of their farm, it made immediate sense, as it offers level terrain, sandy soil, irrigation water and piping, and farm equipment we can rent instead of trucking our own from Burlington. Like ICF, Full Moon Farm has also been a Vermont Organic Farmers certified-organic farm since inception.
We truly appreciate the many of you who offered land suggestions, several of which we investigated. Keep sending us your ideas - it takes a village to run a community farm!
Full Moon Farm and Intervale Community Farm have a long history of collaboration starting in 1999 when Full Moon Farm began in the Intervale, through their 2008 move to Hinesburg, and up to the present day. We are grateful they are welcoming ICF to their farm, and we are hopeful and excited for more predictable summer crops!
This Week at the Farm
In the greenhouse: we did the first seeding of cabbage, kale and head lettuce. Imagine fresh head lettuce in a couple of months! More flowers have been seeded, as well, but snap dragons and verbana have been "potted up" which means they are growing and need larger spaces for their roots!
Next week we anticipate tomato grafting will start! Tomato grafting is very intricate work and requires fine motor skills, sharp blades, and grafting "clips" to hold the stems together. Then the plants are put in a very warm tented area and nurtured until they have healed...yes, healing because the stems have been injured but they will be just fine in a short time.
Don't miss out on our stupendous tomatoes: sign up for your summer share here.
In the fields: tractor work will be starting next week, we hope. The snow may affect the ground softness, but we are planning primary tillage and maybe some chisel plowing, discing, or spading. Remember, for the health of the organic soil we are gentle in our field preparation: you won't see large tractors and implements kicking up mud and dust as you might see on giant commercial farms (think mid-West hay, corn.)
In the shop: Cal is working on the Full Moon box truck so we may borrow it when necessary this season. Parts are delivered almost daily at this time of year!
We're Having a Spring Pop-up Market!
We're having a spring pop-up market on April 10. During our winter share pick-up (2:00-6:00 p.m.), come down and stock up on vegetables to get you through to the first summer pick-up.
We'll should have:
carrots, beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, purple top turnip, gilfeather turnip, watermelon radish, and onions.
Green and red cabbage
Spinach, baby kale, baby lettuce
Maybe arugula (no guarantees but we will hope!)