[ShareTompkins] Fwd: This Sunday! June Crop Mob at Red Tail Farm

[Shira Golding]

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> From: Rachel Firak <rfirak at gmail.com>
> Date: June 21, 2011 12:43:12 AM EDT
> To: <sustainable_tompkins-l at list.cornell.edu>, List Serve <TC-HSC-L at cornell.edu 
> >, <nwaeg-l at cornell.edu>, Groundswell Advisors <advisors at groundswellcenter.org 
> >, <BJMPTA at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: This Sunday! June Crop Mob at Red Tail Farm
> Reply-To: Rachel Firak <rfirak at gmail.com>
>
> Greetings O eager diggers, weeders, and rehabilitators! Come venture  
> to the beautiful western hills of Cayuga Lake to tend a precious  
> berry crop and nourish their roots for a fruitful harvest.
>
> Sunday June 26 @ Red Tail Farm, Trumansburg, 10-2 with lunch following
>
> The Project: We will be renovating a half acre planting of organic  
> blueberries by pulling up weed fabric and heavily mulching with wood  
> chips.
>
> On the off chance that there is any extra time, we might cut back  
> small trees and brambles along an old fence line.
>
> Tools to bring (if you've got 'em): as many wheelbarrows and shovels  
> as possible
>
> Please also bring:  - work gloves, extra jacket as it tends could be  
> windy at the farm.
>                       - a place setting for yourself (plate &  
> utensil/s)
>                       - a full water bottle, sun protection
>
> Please leave dogs at home.
>
> Children welcome, and are to be supervised by their parents.
>
>
>
> Directions to Red Tail Farm from Ithaca
>
> Take 96 North towards Trumansburg.  Pass the Valero gas station on  
> your left in Jacksonville, then just after the church on the right  
> turn left onto Swamp College Rd (Country Rd 147).  Continue to the  
> first intersection then turn left onto Halseyville Rd.  We are the  
> first gravel driveway on your right.  Drive in past the hoophouses  
> and there should be plenty of parking.
>
> There will be a sign put out on the road the day of the mob.
>
> About Red Tail Farm
> Red Tail Farm is a diverse organic veg-plus farm.  We are a two  
> person operation managing a couple of acres of annual crops, a small  
> honey operation, chickens, fruit trees and berries.
>
> The farmers are Teresa Vanek and Brent Welch.  They sell their  
> products at the Ithaca Farmers Market on Saturdays and Tuesdays.
>
>
> To RSVP: Send an email to ithacacropmob at gmail.com. Let us know how  
> many people you will be bringing and if you have any special dietary  
> or physical needs.
>
> See you on Sunday!
>
>
> Sam Bosco
> Groundswell Intern
> samuel.bosco at gmail.com
>
> -- 
> Rachel Firak
> Program Assistant
> Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming
> PO Box 6679
> Ithaca, NY  14851
>
> Are you an aspiring farmer or market gardener? Check out  
> Groundswell's sustainable agriculture education programs at www.groundswellcenter.org 
> !
>

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