Family Harvest Farm

03/10/2021

Look at the size of the carrot Mary is holding 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

02/02/2021

Tuesday at the farm ... circle question “ what do we love about ourselves ?”

01/21/2021

Mark, Scott and Leander receive a CSA box from Mary Cherry. They have been helping with farm irrigation, constructing the green house, and overall any project that needs attending. They are Rotarians from Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kita asked for volunteers on the Strawbale School house to help with plastering the outside.
Great work week. Saturday we will finish the rodent barrier project with help from Moraga Valley Kiwanis members!

01/10/2021

Judith Prieve article on Family Harvest Farm.

John Muir Land Trust partners with others to make family urban farm a reality

01/06/2021

The pole barn arrived 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

01/06/2021

Simple but hugely impactful stickers

01/01/2021

The growing family at Family Harvest Farm 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

12/14/2020

Cabbage at the farm

10/08/2020

A lot of activity today with the pole barn foundation being poured and Mary and the apprentices planting in B bed South.

09/29/2020

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09/29/2020

When their buyers closed up shop, some farmers created new opportunities by collaborating with their neighbors.

09/27/2020

We finished attaching the rodent barrier. Next back fill the trench. Great group out this am! Beautiful drive out to Pittsburg watching the sunrise ✨

09/21/2020

Foundation poured for the green house! Shout out to the Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary for their gift of the greenhouse, one of many gifts to the farm. We are grateful.

09/16/2020

Green house foundation, strawbale school room for Agi, accessible parking, and pole barn/family room slab projects at a Family Harvest Farm👨‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

09/09/2020

The study of fungi has long been overshadowed by more glamorous scientific quests. But biologist Merlin Sheldrake is on a mission to change that.

09/05/2020

Lunch served thanks to Loaves and Fishes👏🏻👏🏻🌟and Apprentices sending love to Mary Cherry

09/02/2020

Our friends, our Apprentices, and the seedlings which will green our beds. We are all growing together.

08/18/2020

Since 1965, the Youth Homes team has provided services for young people who have experienced multiple traumas, abuse, and neglect. What drives us is simple: helping young people heal and empowering them to lead lives of meaning. Learn more about how you can make a difference on our website💚

08/11/2020

Moving along with the rodent barrier thanks to Moraga Valley Kiwanis and Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary!

08/08/2020

Grateful for our friends at Moraga Valley Kiwanis and Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary who installed 300’ of rodent barrier! Also measured for the future olive tree and stone circle!

08/04/2020

At Youth Homes we believe in optimism, hard work, and the human capacity to change and grow. The work of our staff, the families, and our young people, who are so intent on finding their way, inspires us to step up to the challenge!

07/28/2020

One of our collaborators at Family Harvest Farm!

How do we provide children who are separated from or can no longer live with their birth families the best opportunities to succeed? By finding them a loving permanent home or a supportive stable home that provides healing and growth until families can reunify. Foster parents, extended families, and other adults can be life-changers for children, providing continuity and the kind of support a secure and loving family can ensure.💙

07/27/2020

Mary’s mobile for tree area and we HAVE water 💧💧👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

07/20/2020

For young adults on the verge of adulthood, support from Aftercare and the Transition Age Youth-Full Service Partnership Program is not a “nice to have,” it is the difference between crafting a good life and falling through the cracks into poverty, hunger, and homelessness.

To meet the needs of this vulnerable population, Youth Homes provides support and guidance through our Aftercare program. TAY receive mental health and case management services, skill-building training, and job training through our (primarily funded by donors!) Stepping Stones workforce development program.

07/16/2020

Grand day for Family Harvest Farm ! We hosted folks from John Muir Community Heath Foundation, Emerald Consulting International, and John Muir Land Trust. We are happy to have two apprentices on board and a third apprentice Arianna starting on Friday ! We are grateful for all the support and structure that the John Muir Heath Foundation has provided .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

07/01/2020

Great webinar on Organic Ag vs Conventional Farming !

07/01/2020

Planning an orchard at Family Harvest Farm!

This is our delicious and unique Donut White Peach. A saucer style peach thats out of this world! With a low chill requirement of 200-300 hours it may be a good option for warm climates. It has a sweet almond like flavor to it and is an excellent choice for your commercial or backyard orchards. Check out our website to learn more.

https://www.davewilson.com/product-information/product/donut-stark-saturn-white-peach

06/23/2020

Terrific !

As Spain lifts its national state of emergency, the Liceu opera house in Barcelona finds alternative living things to fill nearly 2,300 seats.

06/15/2020

MaryCherry and the farm apprentices 🙂 monumental week ! Fencing, cement truck and our youth on the farm !!!

05/25/2020

She graduated with a degree in Biology from McGill University in Canada and has her Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Oregon.

05/25/2020

An essay by Jean-Martin Fortier

05/22/2020

This is a photo of the kitchen garden at Family Harvest Farm that Mary Cherry lovingly created !

05/21/2020

A young girl with a big heart has found just the way to cheer up other kids stuck at home during the pandemic.

05/14/2020

This is truly an unprecedented period in the history of our country and our world. The sudden development and rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is

05/14/2020

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05/14/2020

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05/12/2020

Last week at the farm we made a lot of progress. Shout out to angels Leander Hauri and Paul Bettelheim of Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary, Calvin Chung, Civil engineer from the City of Pittsburg, Casey from Oliviera Fence, Leo from Carone and Company, Howard Fuchs, our project manager AND bushels of thanks to the two donors who made this movement possible. And our awesome farm manager Mary Cherry 🍒

05/10/2020

Perennial crops are low maintenance, reliable, water and nutrient retaining and they help protect soil from erosion.Why then are 70% of our food crops annuals, and what is being done to change that?