{"id":10087,"date":"2023-12-05T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:23:47","slug":"growing-a-future-farm-serves-the-community-with-fresh-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/growing-a-future-farm-serves-the-community-with-fresh-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Future Farm Serves the Community with Fresh Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A full overhead view of the Growing a Future Farm near the Elmira Elementary School. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Program advisor Stephanie Hackett and her son, Trey Hackett, the program director, have worked hard with volunteers to keep the Growing a Future Farm operational.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The farm volunteers sell produce to the community in CSA boxes. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The 2.5-acre school garden located next to Elmira Elementary School has a lot to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trey Hackett shared with Falcon News that there is much at the farm, including “apples, pears, cherries, apricots and plums from our 57 fruit trees we planted.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the food doesn’t stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We also have a large strawberry patch, blueberries, a large patch of raspberries and table grapes,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“With our annual vegetables, we grow a very wide variety of crops. We grow tomatoes, bok choy, potatoes, pumpkins, lettuce, kale, broccoli, onions, eggplant, cucumbers, squash, tomatillos, hot peppers, carrots and a few other varieties.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hacketts love to give produce to the students who help with the gardens. They also give some to the teachers and staff of the Fern Ridge School District schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farm sells the produce to the community as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“From the beginning of June to the beginning of October, they [the volunteers of the farm] sell produce to the community members through CSA [Community Supported Agriculture] boxes,” Trey Hackett said. “We sell weeks worth of produce in a box each month.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Excess produce is sold at the Veneta Farmers Market during the summer and fall. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The group also sells excess produce when the Veneta Farmers Market is open on Saturdays during the summer and fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing a Future gets money to keep the farm running from multiple grants each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the month of November, student volunteers prepared the farm for winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the farm is at that step where it is shutting down for the cold season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further information can be found on the Growing a Future website<\/a>, and questions can be directed towards growingafuture@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student volunteers prepare the farm to close for the winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clubs-of-ehs","8":"category-features","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11385,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/11385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}