Dig-it Peace Patch Garden

12/24/2021

Happy Wintertime! Merry Isolation and Creative-making!

We still have hand dipped, beeswax candles to share in our Crafty Sister neighborhood sale on 510 Second Street in Traverse City...so we’ll leave those out on a table on my porch w a few other garden and handmade goods.

I’m also posting a few photos from an illustrated guide for a DIY Candle dipping kit I put together...so folks can do-it-yourselves.

Shop local, Stay out of big stores, Wear a Mask and Light a Candle for peace, love and healing💚🐝🔥💚

Happy Wintertime! Merry Isolation and Creative-making!

We still have hand dipped, beeswax candles to share in our Crafty Sister neighborhood sale on 510 Second Street in Traverse City...so we’ll leave those out on a table on my porch w a few other garden and handmade goods.

Shop local, Stay out of big stores, Wear a Mask and Light a Candle for peace, love and healing💚🐝🔥💚

04/22/2021

Happy Earth 🌍 Day!
Our FAVORITE human-engineered holiday of all!
A WARM SPRING WELCOME to our new share members: Nancy, Savannah, Kate, Hannah, and Anne Marie-----Once we get further past this latest COVID surge and it warms up a little more, we'll plan an outdoor gathering and potluck.
I'm setting out a EARTH DAY Seed share table and including some baby plant starts: DiCCio Broccoli, Lacinato Kale and Onions-Red and Yellow, from saved seed. Tell your friends and neighbors, everything is free or donation-based at our O'k CSA Headquarters on Second St. today.
For those signed up for the Spring Greens Share, we are beginning the share NEXT Friday, April 30th, at 510 Second Street, shares will be ready for you by 3:00 pm. If you can't make it on Friday, I'll set them on my porch or nearby for you to pick-up on Saturday!
We still have space for members to join our Summer Share. Here’s info at this link: http://www.pennyokart.com/shop/2021-csa-shares/
O'k that's the Good Earth Day News from our O’k CSA world. I hope you are gratefully enjoying your special home-place on the planet today too!

11/20/2020

WOWzer, we started this Peace Patch Garden page in 2007 when we began expanding into a community-wide and neighborhood gardening program! However, with all of those good memories of our shared work, it's time to condense this FB page with O'k CSA Cooperative's page where folks can grab all sorts of shared info about garden-farming, and expanding our efforts to build a neighborhood food growing network in TC and GT county.I'll be deleting this page this weekend...SO join us over there at O'k CSA.

04/22/2020

O'k CSA Seed Share here at Dig-it Peace Patch garden farm happening April 22nd, from 1-6 pm daily--all Earth Week long---until seeds are gone!
https://www.facebook.com/PennyOKrebiehl/videos/244712519912003/

02/28/2020

It's NATIONAL CSA DAY! What is CSA Day? According to Small Farm Central’s CSA Farming Annual Report, the most popular time to join a CSA each year is at the end of February. To promote this important time each year it falls on the last Friday in February. This year it is February 28. It’s an entire day dedicated to the celebration of community-supported agriculture, and CSA farmers enjoy an influx of sign-ups from members.

O'k Art & Garden-Farm, produces MORE than a weekly share of fresh vegetables. And while we are supported by community members we are also a cooperative model---the first that we know of in the Traverse City community. Over the last ten years, we've designed and helped bring at least a dozen small garden-farm sites including the TC Community Gardens, along with front and back yards, and empty lots into a model of cooperative garden-farming.

In particular we are proud of and grow perhaps THE BEST garlic in the region with folks and chefs and restaurant owners seeking our Ok Garlic out! We've been offering a combination of spring starter plants for garden-farmers, weekly shares of organic food + herbs and a variety of teas and herbal products PLUS original artwork.

How do you get involved with CSA Day and our gem of an Art & Garden-Farm Cooperative?

If you believe in the value of the work this cooperative model with combo art and garden-farmer and would like to help us have a successful 2020 season, sign up by contacting us today,February 28, or ASAP. You can contact me by leaving a message below, or in a private message with your email address, and I will send you this year's registration form.

Join the online support by using the hashtags and

08/08/2019

My grandmother Lois Laverne had a “yarden”that was a series of wild-like patches of trees, shrubs. Flowers, blackberry bushes and who knows what. All of her centennial farm yard space was laced with pathways, so that as a kid running around there, it felt like a jungle. I’ve definitely inherited, or at the very least was influenced by her garden habits and aesthetics. It’s been a wild and wonderful and great transformational year in all of the lovely, garden farms I’m tending. This is a little collection of some of what’s been growing and happening in my home-space, which is named Dig-it Peace Patch garden, where I set up a little neighborhood farm market every once in awhile. This week we are taking down our beloved Hobbit Hoop house and beginning to redesign this garden. Basically tidy it up and lay in pathways where the hoop house was, and impress the landowners with my grandmothers nature inspired designs, hopefully away from the idea of replanting it with grass. It’s a difficult time as a plant tending parental unit to go into a growing space and try to figure out ways of Deconstructing a garden, without experiencing divorce like anguish...but we’ll keep on growing and learning the ways of tending nevertheless.

08/01/2019

Giving thanks for the harvest that is coming in and all the good, daily work of planting, tending and gathering. Today is a special day: Lammas—the midpoint between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox, a time to take stock, realize the blessings that come from our efforts to grow food and appreciate the plants, the soil, the sun and the rain!

Growing food for myself and others is a meaningful partnership and full time work that began with chores assigned to us in my family garden when I was a kid.

I feel grateful for all that I learned from my dad and grandparents. And alongside other summertime friends in 4-H. From other wonderful, friendly, eager community gardeners in Lansing and through our great efforts in beginning the TC Community garden. And now in our neighborhood community cooperative, where our gardens are “yardens” and we are understanding not only where our food comes from, but also how to grow healthy soil and plants without doing harm to people and planet!

Harvesting everyday....planning to set up a urban garden-Farm street sale when more tomatoes ripen!

FYI Here’s good basic info on preserving and curing some veg from Mother Earth News:

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/root-cellaring/storage-crops-zm0z12aszsie?utm_source=wcemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MEN%20SLCS%20eNews%2008.01.19&utm_term=MEN_SLCS_eNewsAll%20Subscribers&_wcsid=E3810662B0030A03EEE4A59671E48F6B48CA45C660CDFF6C

07/27/2019

Lovely summertime harvest and share......

07/02/2019

4th of July Week Fun! It’s the last of our lovingly grown from saved seed heirloom tomato sale!

These are later season Toms that will be a great addition to your late August and September needs. I have two new(first offering this year) Toms: Yellow Platfoot and Sunshine Farm Reds...both are heirlooms and big beautiful, good tasting fruit. Also, Black Cherry and Black Prince, Yellow Paste and Red Heirlooms

And I’m sharing some basil starts: Sweet basil, Lettuce Leaf Basil and Basil Anton.

Plus I’m putting out a few lovely flower and herb bouquets each day.

There is also a tray of Toms that are heirlooms, but they were shuffled and mixed up, so I’ve labeled them w a “?”.

Tomatoes: $1 per plant or 6 for $5
Basil: $2 per pot
Flower and Herb Bouquets: $3

At 510 Second Street, Traverse City, MI