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The B-Irv Garden

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The B-Irv Garden

The B-Irv Garden is a small, family run, no-till vegetable garden providing farm fresh vegetables to our community at donation/pay what your able to.
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We believe that everyone should be able to enjoy healthy, fresh, delicious, locally grown food!

08/23/2024

Our self-serve veggie stand will be open tomorrow and Sunday this week (August 24 & August 25) from 9am to sunset/while supplies last.

We will have garlic, carrots, green beans, some tie dye tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes (new this week!), a few carmen peppers (new this week too!), and swiss chard.

Please keep in mind we are a "tiny urban farm" so quantities are limited, but we always put out everything that we are able to, and restock as we can. We grow everything organically and pesticide/chemical free.

Our veggies are always offered for donation/pay what you're able to. Thank you for the continued support!

08/19/2024

Had some help in the garden today, and finally got to harvest some carmen peppers!

08/17/2024

Garden goodies at the stand today! 🥬🥕🌱🧄🍅

08/16/2024

Tie dye tomatoes! We will have a few these along with garlic, carrots, green beans, and swiss chard available at our self-serve stand tomorrow and Sunday from 9am to sunset/while supplies last

Last week, our cooler shut down while we were away, so we apologize for those who came out to find warm carrots and beans. The issue has been resolved, and we have freshly harvested veggies ready to go out again!

Please keep in mind we are a "tiny urban farm" so quantities are limited, but we always put out everything that we are able to, and restock as we can. We grow everything organically and pesticide/chemical free.

As always, our veggies are offered for donation/pay what you're able to. Thank you for the continued support!

08/14/2024

Making zucchini relish, another pantry staple!

08/12/2024

Butternut squashes coming along.

08/10/2024

Our cooler is freshly stocked green beans and carrots; and we have plenty of garlic available as well.

The stand will be open today and tomorrow from 9am until sunset or while supplies last.

As always, our veggies are offered for donation/pay what you're able. Thanks to everyone for the continued support!

08/07/2024

First place in small farm and garden collection and the best of show award in the farm and garden class at the Topsham Fair!

08/05/2024

Anise hyssop is one of our favorite perennials to plant around our garden. They are a native plant and the bees absolutely love them, and we love having bees in the garden! 🐝

08/04/2024

Our self-serve veggie stand is open again today (August 4) until sunset. We still have some carrots, green beans, swiss chard, and a bunch of garlic that we'd like to see go out to the community! Everything is organically and pesticide/chemical free.

Our veggies are always offered for donation/pay what you're able to. Thanks again for the continued support!

08/04/2024

This year's entry we made for the Topsham Fair! Small farm and garden collection.

08/02/2024

Our self-serve veggie stand will be open Saturday anf Sunday this weekend (August 3 & August 4) from 9am to sunse. We will be stocked with green beans, garlic, carrots, and swiss chard!

Please keep in mind we are a "tiny urban farm" so quantities are limited, but we put out everything that we are able to. All veggies are organically grown and pesticide/chemical free.

As always, our veggies are offered for donation/pay what you're able to.

08/01/2024

First carrot harvest of the season! These long, slender, super sweet carrots are the "Sugarsnax 54" variety from Johnny's Selected Seeds. They are incredibly delicious!

07/31/2024

Garden happenings heading into August! Pumpkins, cherry tomatoes, butternut squash, mad hatter peppers, beefsteak tomatoes, acorn squash, and carmen peppers.

07/29/2024

First carrot of the season! Looks like these are next in line for harvesting 🥕🥕🥕

07/26/2024

We are loading the veggie stand this morning with an abundance of green beans and our last sugar snap peas of the summer! We would love to see these go out to the community!

Open today and tomorrow from 9am to sunset or until we are out of veggies.

As always, all veggies are offered for donation/pay what you're able to.

07/25/2024

Peppers coming along. Mad Hatter, Escamillo, and Carmen varieties. Carmens are our favorites! These particular plants came from the Bowdoin Organic Garden and they are growing wonderfully!

07/24/2024

Creeping up on pumpkin season. The first wee-b-little was ready for harvest.

07/22/2024

Garlic harvest! It will be in the greenhouse curing for the next couple of weeks before it's available at our stand 🧄

07/20/2024

Our tiny urban farm stand is open today and tomorrow, 9am to sunset with fresh off the vine veggies!

As always, our veggies are offered for donation/pay what your able to.

07/19/2024

One of the many reasons we will never use pesticide or chemical treatments in the garden; they kill the good guys!

Beneficial insects consist of more than just polinators (although we love our polinators!).

I found this little guy in the morning garden walk chowing on a cucumber beetle. I believe it to be a "Podisus" or a spined soldier beetle - a predatory stink bug that feeds on several garden pests.

We've introduced beneficial predators into the garden before, but it's always nice to see them show up naturally. A good sign of a functioning, diverse ecosystem in the garden.

I like this guy!

07/17/2024

Unfortunately, it looks like we lost a cucumber plant to presumably a vine borer. Hopefully, all is not lost. The plant still had a healthy shoot growing from the bottom, so we harvested any little cukes we could. Then we cut the wilted main stem back to the healthy shoot, and re-trellised it.

The wilted remains went into a sealed plastic bag and put into the sun to solarize and kill off any remaining borers that were in the wilted plant parts.

We've had luck before when losing a main stem on a cucumber or tomato plant by continuing growth through a shoot that we would normally prune off. Pest management can be a challenge, especially in an organic, pesticide, and chemical free setting - but if something isn't trying to eat your plants, then your garden is not part of a healthy, sustainable ecosystem.

07/16/2024

Morning harvest basket.

07/15/2024

What's up and coming in the B-Irv Garden? Tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cukes, acorn squasg, and peppers are developing nicely!

07/13/2024

We are open today and tomorrow, 9am to sunset with delicious, fresh, homegrown veggies!

07/12/2024

The last romaine harvest of the summer! We've been harvesting the same plants since June 1st, and they'll be ready to start bolting by next week. We cut all the heads before this (and in the early morning) to get the best flavor and crispness. Hoping to have some more ready in the fall. This "Sunland" variety of romaine from Johnny's Selected Seeds is still our new favorite lettuce that we will continue to grow.

07/11/2024

It's zucchini season in the B-Irv Garden!

07/10/2024

Polinators are getting to work in the garden 🐝

07/09/2024

Morning harvest before the heat sets in.

Address

2 Wood Avenue
Topsham, ME
04086

Opening Hours

Saturday	11am - 8pm
Sunday	11am - 8pm

Website

https://www.birvgarden.com/

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