Hello All!
The Sustainable Student Farm has once again slid past the autumnal equinox. The balance of dark and light has now turned in favor of the dark, which will bring us shorter days and the more resilient participants in the great dance of fresh food production. The fields are just about clear of any indication of summer. The last tomatoes and peppers wait on the vines to be picked before they are lost to the crystallization of the first frost. The fields are alive with their hardier cousins: head lettuce, radish, mustard greens, kale, and spinach. The high tunnels (our passive solar heated greenhouses) are being planted and germinating with the bounty of what will be our late fall and early winter production. These tunnels will be brimming with salad greens that can be enjoyed at our campus dining hall units on campus such as Ikenberry through the fall semester. Hopefully, by the time you are reading this our high tunnels will be covered and protecting our crops. If not, there will be at least one more weekend of volunteer workdays to get the job done. Regardless, if you are interested in coming out to help harvest greens or just to see what we are all about. Visit our website: (thefarm.illinois.edu). Hope to see you out there!
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