Henry Street Farms

07/24/2020

06/11/2020

More data! The tomatoes are taller, flowering, and there are a few small green tomatoes. The peppers are starting to flower, and there is at least one report of a pepper forming. We've been eating herbs, lettuce, spinach and bok choi from the garden for several weeks.

Wow, the plants are really getting taller! And, more of the tomatoes and peppers are starting to flower. We are tracking 37 tomato plants, 32 pepper plants, 2 eggplants, 9 herbs, 3 leafy green plants and 9 herbs. In the graphs below, the red points are for plants that you reported as flowering. The....

06/06/2020

Seedlings available

We have new Hubbard squash seedlings grown by our friend David; he reports that the seeds are organic and the fruit are on the smaller side for Hubbards: 6-8 pounds - but they are delicious! We also still have Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, zucchini or summer squash, and cucumbers, along with lots of imp...

06/01/2020

We have data!
Also, we have some new Sun Gold, squash and cucumber seedlings for sale or distribution to kids.

Many kids have been using the survey or app to record their plant's growth. The plants are getting bigger! Of course, those average heights may have come from a different set of plants. Let's see what it looks like when we connect multiple observations of the same plant with a line. We'll just look....

05/19/2020

Join us for a virtual tour of our tiny urban farm this Saturday at 8am eastern time. Pre-register to get the zoom link.

Join us on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. for a free virtual tour via Zoom! We'll spend half an hour checking out our tiny urban farm. Sign up in our "bookings" section. We'll visit the grow lights and composting bins in the basement. Then we'll check out the back porch where we acclimate the seedlin...

05/18/2020

New inventory! Tomato plants are scarce but we have two. We have 21 pepper plants, mostly hot peppers. We have new seedlings: lettuce, pak choi, spinach, lavender, impatiens, parsley. Also, check out the video of some of our plants in their final outdoor containers. https://youtu.be/nHy2D40Ax48

As of this evening, we have new inventory for sale. We are still nearly out of tomatoes - we have two plants right now. We will have cherry Sun Golds for sale in a couple weeks. We have 21 pepper plants available, mostly hot peppers. New leafy greens: lettuce, spinach, and pak choi seedlings. New fl...

05/16/2020

77 kids joined our food seedling adventure. Read more about it here:

We have had a great start to our Seedlings-for-Kids program! Over the next few days we will distribute another bunch of seedlings. In total, there are 77 kids who will be tending food plants so far. Dave and I will be dropping off some of the seedlings tomorrow morning. We have 25 places to visit. T...

05/07/2020

What advice do you have for growing tomatoes?

tl;dr Plant deep. Remove lower leaves. Water. Fertilize. Support. Pinch. My friend Harvey knows a lot about plants; it's his business to take care of them. Here are his recommendations for tomatoes: Use any balanced fertilizer once a week. He recommends Jack's 20-20-20. Tomatoes do well being "const...

05/04/2020

Free seedlings for Cambridge kids interested in growing their own food and willing to commit to care for their plant.

Henry Street Farms will provide one vegetable or herb seedling to each Cambridge, MA student willing to commit to caring for a plant, until we run out of seedlings. Pre-schoolers are also eligible. Fill out this form to request a seedling. Either a parent or a student may fill out this form. If you....

05/01/2020

It's going to be a great weekend for gardening. Order seedlings from Henry Street Farms and go to town!

04/29/2020

Just added some Saturday morning webinars about urban farming, for the month of May. You can sign up at the website, under "bookings".