The Neighborhood Farm
A collection of market gardens in and around Needham, MA
2009 Photo Gallery
 Removing the sod to prepare a new garden bed |
 The sod cutter |
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 Rolling up the sod |
 These sod rolls are really heavy! |
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 Seedlings for our spicy salad mix |
 Beet seedlings with beautiful red stems |
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 Inside the greenhouse in early March |
 By the first day of spring, over 100 flats were seeded |
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 These flats will have onion seedlings in the them |
 A new garden site on a rainy February day |
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 The Uber Tuber - celeriac and parsnips |
 Friendly produce |
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 Drilling the hole in the sugar maple to insert the tap |
 Knocking in the tap with a rubber mallet |
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 Wagon filled with enough taps and bags for all 7 trees on Kingsbury St |
 A side view of the collecting bag and the tap |
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 A new 2009 garden site photographed in January |
 Row cover over hardy crops |
Link to '08 Gallery
Our first tomato seedlings are in bigger pots now. These seedlings will be grafted - an heirloom seedling will be grafted onto a different variety's roots. Check back in a couple weeks for an explanation of this!
Mortgage Lifter and Maxifort planted together for grafting
"Allison's Favorite
Spicy Salad Mix"
Seedlings in some round plug trays.
Creative produce projects - build an Uber Tuber
Decorative now, and makes a good soup later
The collecting bags hang off of the taps
Sap dripping out of the tap and into the collecting bag