Cultivar Farms

05/21/2024

Our peach trees outdid themselves again along with plums and apples. 114 lbs donated to Hill Country Family Services last week.

05/15/2024

Senior Service Day...

Although most of us at Cultivar are seniors, this service day refers to the annual Boerne High School Senior Service Day. Thanks to a referral from our friends at Hill Country Family Services, we were the beneficiaries of the labors of nearly forty of Boerne’s best and brightest.

For nearly three hours, the kids labored under the direction of our regular volunteers. We had a lengthy list of objectives for the day, and almost all were completed handily. Their energy, their enthusiasm, and especially their young muscles, were a welcome addition to the garden.

Our main objective was the installation of the decomposed granite pathways in the new pollinator garden. This addition to Cultivar Farms is the brainchild of Bill and Louise Haney. After they transferred to Cultivar from Kronkowsky they set out almost immediately to design and install the garden. We’re grateful to them and to Thrivent Financial for their generous donation that enabled us to purchase the granite.

See captions for a tour around the garden.

02/03/2024

Six trays of brassicas are ready to set out in the garden. The gangly seedlings reaching for the sun show how cloudy the last weeks have been. They have enjoyed recent sunny days outside during the day to soak up the sun. With no more heat lamps on cool nights and a weak feeding of fish emulsion they should be ready for the real world by Tuesday.

11/14/2023

Here's what we harvested from the garden this morning. Can you name them all?

08/26/2023

The cabbage and broccoli seedlings are visiting my greenhouse until they are ready to put in the ground.
We've delivered 387 pounds of produce to Hill Country Family Services this season.

06/21/2023

The flowers at the garden are spectacular right now.

06/14/2023

Look what they did at the garden!
Shirley Smith and I adopted this garden in 2015. We have been blessed with many volunteers through the years. Michael Bell obtained a grant from Young Men's Service League last year that boosted the garden to what it is today. This morning they surprised us with this gracious re-naming.

05/04/2023

04/17/2023

The garden gets more amazing all the time. The team, NCL, YMSL, and other volunteers do an amazing job. Touch each picture to see what we're doing.

04/08/2023

There will be squash and watermelon on this fence gate. We will bag the fruit as it grows larger than the vine can support. Being up off the ground should give us fewer pests and pretty produce.

04/04/2023

This is the coldframe Michael built in one of the raised beds. It's used to get a jump start on seedlings for the spring.