Easton Urban Farm

09/11/2022

Thank you to City of Easton Forester Rob for overseeing the moving of these beautiful native trees.3 Black Gums 2 American Hornbeams t their new home close by.
in anticipation for farm expansion.
The trees look happy in their new home.

29/09/2022

Nice piece in food and wine magazine,a shout out to our Dragon breath peppers.
Congrats to Kelly and all the brave competitors who downed many hot Peppers 🌶🌶🥵
Great job from the folks Easton Farmers' Market.

Taking the title of this competition required the winner to eat not just one, but three Dragon's Breath peppers.

01/04/2022

Earth day 2022.

is *everyday* - but our celebration with Easton Urban Farm and City of Easton, Urban Forestry is on Sunday, April 24th (11:00 - 2:00) at our Lower Hackett community garden 🌎 Join us for pollinator and repurposing crafts, gardening & compost tea demos, seedling and seed give-aways, site tours, and more 🦋

PAZA, Tree of Life will also host special presentations on traditional Native American cultural and agricultural practices. Activity & educational tables will be popping up all over the Lower Hackett Park that day! A sustainable Easton is one small step towards a greener future: bring your reusable cup/mug and your thinking cap for how we can make a change here and now.

*Rain date Sunday, May 1st

12/10/2020

Fun Friday at the Boys and Girls club of Easton.
We had lots of gourd games and apple cider and donuts as well as a spaghetti squash cooking and sampling,with a few grilled green tomatoes.
Thank you to all involved Dean Young and the staff of the boys and Girls club.
Miranda Wilcha and friends from the Easton Garden works,who set up all the funHalloween themed games.
Oh and we planted some Hardneck garlic.

06/06/2020

Welcome to our 2020 Lafayette EXCEL students,here to hoe ,grow ,sow and help to provide veggies in the community at the Farm stand in the West Ward 10th and Pine.
The Veggie stand is run by Lafayette faculty and students.
The GEDP and City of Easton provide assistance.
The produce is grown by LAFarm,Crayolas veggie garden and the Easton Urban Farm.
Photo by Curt.

12/05/2020

Thank you to Jim ,Farm friend for putting this handy table together from scrap wood we found at the farm.

22/04/2020

Happy Earth day friends and neighbors of the Easton Urban Farm.This beautiful Black Eastern Swallowtail stopped by last fall to sit a while on our Dahlias.
Hope it comes back with lots of friends.

13/04/2020

Some of our wonderful crew of volunteers planting out the tiny kale plants.
Let it grow.

10/04/2020

William laying the spuds in their new home.Hopefully we will dig a few lbs in a couple of months.This season we are planting about 300 ft of different varieties.
Cobblers,Lehigh Valley Gold,Satina and Elba Varieties.

05/04/2020

Staying safe essential workers at the farm.

30/03/2020

I see even the birds are getting creative with left over garbage to make their nests.Sad to see.

28/03/2020

Garden tools in line for sanitizing,farming in these strange times.

21/03/2020

Practicing social distancing on the Farm note the tape is at six feet.
Thanks to the guys for the demo.

18/03/2020

Thank you to Bluestone gardens for their donation of seed potatoes.
And better still they are Irish Cobblers.

17/03/2020

Tipping the compost # urban farm

14/03/2020

The urban farms hard working volunteer crew spreading mushroom compost,planting peas,and cleaning out our award winning Italian Purple heirloom Asparagus.
Peas and Asparagus in the same sentence must be nearing Spring.
Photos by Curt.

13/03/2020

Late Winter surprise,when you pull back the row cover and see a bounty of Komatsuna smiling at you.A delicious Asian green.

10/03/2020

I love the smell of organic mushroom soil in the morning.

09/03/2020

Make hay when the sun shines,or sow spinach and radish seeds.

07/03/2020

Off to the races Zinnias poking out.

02/03/2020

Buckwheat growing as a cover crop,bonus looks pretty and a magnet for pollinators.