Farm Blog
By Hand
By Dan Lobbes, Vice President of Land & Watershed Programs Planted by hand. Nurtured by hand. Weeded by hand. Harvested by hand. Hands – and the caring, determined hearts
Introducing Our New Farm Manager, Russ Cerocke
Greetings friends, family, and neighbors of Green Earth Harvest! My name is Russ, and I am grateful to have been selected as the new farm manager here at McDonald Farm!
Growing Garlic for our Shareholders
Garlic’s here. Grown for about 270 days, cured for another 25, with just 70 days left until planting, the eating’s just one part of a full annual cycle. It always
Get to Know McDonald Farm’s “Eco-Campus”
By Brook McDonald, President/CEO of The Conservation Foundation The McDonald Farm is more than fields and fields full of delicious organic veggies. It is also the home of The
Our Farm Stand is Open! Wednesday Afternoons & Saturday Mornings this Summer
Visit our farm stand to bring home fresh, local, organic veggies all summer long! Wednesdays 3-6pm and Saturdays 9am-noon, mid-July through the end of October! You’ll find us near the
Growing the Community
by Dan Lobbes, Vice President In our last Connections, Steve Tiwald, the founder of Green Earth Institute, discussed the beginnings of the organic farming initiative 20 years ago. His
Local Food For All
by Dan Lobbes, Director Like many of you, we believe that every person should have access to local, organic, nutritious food. The benefits have been well documented, and we
Donor Testimonial: Steve Tiwald & Karen Hutt
Steve Tiwald and his wife Karen Hutt were the founders twenty years ago of the Green Earth Institute, the organic farming operation headquartered at McDonald Farm that is now our
A Note on “No-Till” Farming
By Jason Halm, Farm Manager In the past few years, a lot of people have heard or talked about “no-till” farming. I’d like to discuss what this term means,
Seeds of Transformation
By Jason Halm, Farm Manager Even as the sun sets at 5:30 in the evening now and the afternoon sun’s tilted to more of a glancing angle than the
The Facts of Life
by Jason Halm, Farm Manager There are three words running through my head this week on the farm, as facts of life. The first: everything is growing. Maybe that seems
McDonald Farm: A Throwback, And A Farm Of The Future
“ORGANIC… THE WAY GRAMPA DID IT!” That’s what the sign read in DeKalb County as I drove past an old farm on Rt. 23. I thought of the McDonald Farm,
