Spider Web Gardens
What's New?
Three mornings per week the Kingswood Regional High School Agriculture I students worked at Spider Web doing a variety of jobs.
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Display Gardens are happening all over the farm.
This one is by Set N Stone Masonry
Spider Web Gardens and the Governor Wentworth Regional School District (GWRSD) are partnering with the New Hampshire Farm to School Program (NHFTS). NHFTS is a statewide program working to connect NH farms and schools. Farm to school connections enable schools to serve healthy, locally grown foods in their cafeterias, integrate farms, food, and nutrition into their curriculum, and explore food and agriculture-based learning opportunities.Purchasing locally grown food helps ensure that NH farms continue to thrive; helping to preserve NH's open spaces and rural working landscape. Foods grown locally are fresher and taste better than food shipped long distances. Spider Web Gardens has 10 acres of field production, which produces a variety of vegetables. Produce is sold at two farm stands, the Wolfeboro Farmer’s Market and through it’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Cathy Kunzler, Food Service Director at GWRSD, is very supportive of this connection and has purchased butternut squash and sweet potatoes for the lunch program.
Another High Tunnel Added to Spider Web!
Floral arrangement class presented by Karen O'Shea of Tranquil Spaces
Third Annual Taste of the Garden Celebration
Steve Taylor presented "Cows and the Community"
Spider Web Float Wins Second Place in 4th of July Parade
Pruning Workshop
Spider Web Participates in Earth Day Festivities
Spider Web joined many other organizations in celebrating Earth Day at Carpenter School. Seed displays and informational flyers were viewed by many in the community wide event. The booth was manned by Tyler Evans.
Bill Stockman gave a twilight tour of Spider Web and the neighboring Tuftonboro Community Garden. Visitors were given a tour of the greenhouses and farm and Bill dug up fresh parsnips for those interested. He also cut each person’s tulip preference as a special gift.
The Tent is up!
Over 100 rocks were removed from the fields and grounds recently.
CSA for Spider Web Gardens
Again this year will be a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) vegetable program. CSAs are becoming more popular as customers desire to eat local, fresh food with delicious flavor and vitamin benefits. Consumers also learn new vegetables and new ways of cooking, get to visit the farm and see where and how the produce is grown and develop a relationship with the farmer who grows their food. The farmer receives benefits such as getting to spend time marketing the food early in the year and to receive payment early in the season, which helps with the farm's cash flow. The farmer also has an opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food they grow.
Due to high interest the vegetable CSA is open for the 2011 season. CSA is an arrangement which enables consumers and farmers to share the risks and benefits of sustainable agriculture. Each growing season, members pay for a share up front and in return, receive 14 weekly harvests of produce in season. The first harvest will be in mid July, running through August and September and into the first two weeks of October. The share will cost $245.00 Typically the share will feed a family of three or four. Pick up will be at SWG one time per week Mondays or Fridays. Preferred pick up day will be on a first come first serve basis. Vegetables will be displayed and a prescribed amount of each will be available to each share holder; there will a swap area where families may leave what produce they might not care for and exchange that for a preferred vegetable. We encourage the use of reusable bags for containers. It might take a while for some families to make a transition from eating whatever is at the grocery store (pretty much everything) to whatever is in your CSA basket (what's in season). The season starts off lighter than it finishes: In our area the first crops will be salad greens, green onions, radishes and the like. By the end of the season, the shares should be much heavier, with things like winter squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, and corn. We will try to provide a list of vegetables and when they might be available, members need to remember that farming has no guarantees. Because this will be a joint venture options may be made to not pick up a share one week and to pick up two the next or to form some other arrangement. Flexibility is desirable for all involved. For a sign up sheet, click Here.
We also offer a separate CSA opportunity with our cut flowers, there is membership space available. This will be cut your own flowers from the cut flower garden for 15 visits with up to 20 stems/visit. The cost of this will be $100.00/share.