Garfield Community Farm

My (John Creasy) new book is coming out in less than a year. It's such a long process! Lots of stories connected to the farm and all I've learned from that land over the past two decades. In the meantime I'm continuing to write here on my Substack page. Check it out and subscribe if you feel so led.

A Walk Through the Greenway Wonder in the Wild

Hope to see you tonight ☀️

Final week of Spring CSA harvest today, and some elderflowers for wholesale! Pak choi, DILL, garlic scapes, arugula, farm fresh eggs, gorgeous 💚 our first mobile market is next week, keep an eye out for more info!

*Workshop this Saturday*

Plant Timing, Spacing, and Companions Workshop
Saturday, June 6 from 1 - 230p at GCF (allotment garden and farm production spaces)

Learn when to plant your vegetables and herbs, how to space them, and what plants have positive relationships with each other (companion plants) to enhance plant production, reduce pests, and increase soil health. Attendees will receive a flower companion plant and seeds to take home. Plan on getting into the dirt during this workshop!

This is a FREE, family-friendly workshop. Registration isn’t required but encouraged.

This workshop is part of our Gardening Basics Workshop series and one of the ways we support the Garfield Grows Network (GGN), a free informal learning and support network for Garfield growers of all ages and experience levels. Many thanks to the SWPA United Way Community Food Solutions Grant and the City of Pittsburgh’s Food Justice Fund Grant for supporting this workshop and the Garfield Grows Network!

Hope to see you tonight 😊

SPRING CSA week 6 harvest this morning! Elderflowers for fritters and ferments, baby kales and mustards for salads or cooking, sage and thyme for roasting chickens or veggies or pantry drying, fresh eating turnips yummmmmmmm!

We are so excited for this one-of-kind community event!! GCF is teaming up with to bring you a mixer with a twist.

While the vibes and food alone (food by ) will be well worth your time, this event will feature the cashless marketplace created by InvolveMint. This unique marketplace runs on community credits as opposed to traditional currency. Individuals earn community credits through volunteering and then can spend these credits at participating vendors. So cool, right?

Some of the vendors who are participating in the May 30th event are:

🫜Veggies N’at
🫜Higher Ground of Healing
🫜Community Cultures
🫜Wild Indigo
🫜Creative Wellness Studio
🫜Terroir Designs
…and more!

If you are an individual who is already part of the InvolveMint network and has credits, plan on coming to this event so that you can spend those credits at 9+ vendors. If you are an individual who doesn’t already have an account through InvolveMint, head over to their website and set it up so that you are ready to both earn and spend when you join us on the 30th. Attendees can also create an account at the event! Credits can be earned during the event through the following ways: picking up trash, bringing a book to donate to the Little Free Library, bringing a seed packet to donate to the Seed Sharing Library, pulling knotweed, and/or dropping off compost.

*Vendors will also be accepting traditional currency in addition to community credits

Hope to see you there!

Hope to see you tonight 🌱

Two awesome events tomorrow, Wed., May 20!!

From 4pm to 6pm, we are hosting Exploratory Farm Tours as part of Remake Learning Days. This is very family-friendly event where folks of all ages will be invited to explore our vibrant, multi-use green space. Everyone will also have the option to take home their very own herb cutting 🌱 Refreshments provided 😊

From 5pm to 7pm, we’ll be hosting our second community meal with eats provided by . Come on up to get a delicious plate of food and eat amongst neighbors and friends. Food is free and available while supplies last.

hope to see you tomorrow 🤗

For their capstone project to complete our Environmental Justice curriculum, the fab youth of chose to build a salamander habitat for the salamanders that live in the “dirt pit” in the front yard of their building. It was so much fun!!

We invited local naturalist and salamander enthusiast Joe to teach us about salamanders and help us construct a habitat for them. After teaching us about the salamanders the youth found in the yard, we all collected sticks and logs and rocks and leaves to construct the habitat.

After the habitat was completed, we installed an educational sign so that the youth and any other people who pass by can learn about salamanders and how to keep them safe. Very cool note: the salamanders on the sign were colored by the students 🦎

This was such a great example of an Environmental Justice project, bringing together discovery, appreciation, mobilization, and education!!