The Arcata Educational Farm

11/14/2019

09/07/2013

The Bayside Park Farm is celebrating its 20 year anniversary during Local Food Month! Check out our event as well as all the other happenings. :)

05/28/2012

check out our recent happenings on the farm on our new page!

Loving our sunburns, dirt, and progress!

05/23/2012

Timeline Photos

04/30/2012

04/24/2012

Tonions of onions! All planted in poked holes! Funyuns with onions, plenty of water and hula hoes!

04/24/2012

Planted the our cucumbers today! Soil block madness!!! So many varieties, excited to see them fruit! Excited to see them survive the rats long enough to become fruit ;)

04/23/2012

Good luck chicks! Keep each other close. It's a cold night for your first night in the coop :) Babies are growing up!

04/22/2012

RATS! ARRRGG!!

04/08/2012

Getting organized feels so good!

04/02/2012

Painted lots of lovely signs today! Cant waint to put 'em up around the farm!

03/26/2012

yah! A great work party yesterday. One field mowed (w/o the use of any fossil fuels!) and 3 compost piles built. Thanks for all the hard work!

03/25/2012

Sharpening the scythe

03/25/2012

The Arcata Educational Farm's cover photo

03/21/2012

Ali, our nursery queen! And the prop house fillin up

03/20/2012

The Beneficial Living Center & Garden Supplies

Thanks to the BLC for their generosity!

The St. Patty's Day Fundraiser raised a grand total of $350 for the Arcata Educational Farm. Plus, the Ed Farm won the Compost Wizard!!! Thanks to everyone who made it out to support such an awesome cause. We had a great time putting it on and are already trying to figure out an excuse to throw another party, I mean fundraiser.

03/09/2012

Planting carrots!

03/09/2012

The Beneficial Living Center & Garden Supplies

WOO HOO! St. Patricks Day GARAGE SALE @ the BLC! Tell your amigos!

Sounds like our St. Patricks Day Garage Sale Fundraising Party is going to happen. Next Saturday the 17th, from 11-5, we are going to clean out the garage of all kinds of usefull growing equipment, as well as have live music by the Mighty Redwood Ambassadors, an epic raffle, and all beer sale proceeds are going to help the Arcata Educational Farm buy a new rototiller. Ya, it'll be awesome.

03/06/2012

LabelGMOs

Its Our Right to Know! Lets get it on the Ballot!
http://www.labelgmos.org/

The Committee for the Right to Know is a grassroots coalition of consumer, public health and environmental organizations, food companies in California that is campaigning for the labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMOs).

03/05/2012

Started all of our tomatoes today! Propagation is happenin' ya'll! Thanks to everyone who came out into the sunshine and w**ded our strawberry beds today! We appreciate you!

02/27/2012

A great day of "Spring" Cleanin'! Gave the herb spiral, perennial garden, SB's, and garlic lots o' love! Thanks for the help ya'll!

02/14/2012

A big thanks to Beneficial Living Center for donating mycorrhizae and soluble kelp to give the bebe strawberries a strong start. If you're planting berries definitely stop by their spot on South G St. in Arcata to pick some supplies up for yourself.

02/13/2012

Strawberries ('Chandlers' & 'Seascapes' if u were curious) are in the ground! Thank you to everyone who came to help us out today.

02/05/2012

It is an unbelievable honor to have worked with two of the most amazing, brilliant, hard working women: Carolan Raleigh-Halsing & Michelle Houk. The time and energy you two have given to this space will go much further than this passing season. Thank you so much! (photo by Madelene Anne)

12/24/2011

A very tastey pie given to us by Kerry & Morgan

12/19/2011

Sushi dinner and seed ordering time with the gang

12/11/2011

Excited for this week's farm goals: review and update production plan for 2012 (!!! YEAH !!!), w**d the baby garlic, grub out and prune perennial area, choreograph a welcome winter boogie ;)

12/11/2011

Had a blast at the pruning demonstration today! Thanks Nathan Donelly for making it happen!

12/08/2011

We're spreading compost tea tomorrow morning from 10 to 11am. Stop on by the farm if you want to check it out. Plus, the goats want to say "hi!"

12/07/2011

Nathan Donelly will be teaching a pruning workshop on Wednesday at the Beneficial Living Center on S. G st. in Arcata, 6pm. And its only 10 bucks! Come on over and learn how to love up on some trees!

This will be followed by an outdoor demonstration at the Ed Farm on Saturday at 11am! Come on by!

12/06/2011

Last regular pick up for Winter Shares is tomorrow and then the You-Picking starts!

12/05/2011

scanning seed catalogs... its that time of year! what to plant next year?

11/30/2011

Did the first "You-Pick" tutorials for our Winter Shareholders today! Thanks for coming out and being prepared everybody! We're excited to get it going!

11/22/2011

What's your favorite way to eat brussle sprouts?