In the beginning of September, Chimborazo Playground Park saw a bustle of activity, with up to 300 volunteers helping to build garden plots and a new playground. The garden plots are organized by Tricycle Gardens, and there are currently 18 plots. The first work day was 09.03.09, and involved preliminary work to prepare the materials [...]

The Byrd House Market is one of two farmers markets happening in Richmond on Tuesdays. The Byrd House Market, is quite expectedly, located at the Byrd community center in Oregon Hill and runs throughout the year. On this day, I visited Fertile Crescent’s Booth and captured some CSA members picking up their veggie shares. Below [...]

Here are images from another visit to Fertile Crescent in its fall growing season. In my earlier post the, the field pictured below was full of potato plants: The green house was noticeably empty: And melons and other late summer and early fall crops were being harvested: