Father’s Day Weekend Events

Saturday: Permaculture Class – Several Interesting Topics 6AM-9AM – no charge (donations accepted)

When:Saturday June 17th,2017 6AM-9AM

What: Several Educational Topics including:

• Creating a Breeze on your land
• 18-Day Mulch Pile Building and Maintenance
• Building an Inexpensive Hoop House

Where: RabbitEye Farm Front Lot

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Sunday: Rope & Harness Tree Climbing Event (fundraiser)

When: Sunday June 18th, 2017 5PM-9PM coincides with RabbitEye Farm’s Evening Berry Picking

What: Rope & Harness Tree Climbing
It’s a great way to climb and a safe way to have fun in the trees.  Using arborist techniques, rope and harness tree climbing lets you have fun at any height. With several rope set-ups and several sizes of harnesses, several people can literally hang-out together while they climb.  Full Hour-$30: Half Hour-$20; and Quarter Hour-$15. visit www.treeclimbing.com for more information on this technique.

Where: RabbitEye Farm – near berry picking areas

 

ONE of our goals here at Grayhill School Farm (GHSF) is to connect gardeners with land.
Here is our first success story for 2017:

The Gardeners

Ron and Bonnie moved into our West Point, Georgia area from North Dakota.  They have terrific farming skills, but their small plot of land has poor soil and a lot of shade cover, which is less than ideal for growing a vegetable garden.  We got to know them when they attended some of our classes and we helped build a small nursery greenhouse on their property.  It was quickly apparent that they could use more gardening space.

The Land

RabbitEye Farm (REF), which grows blueberries and blackberries, had been preparing the soil on a front plot for a couple of years now, but it was still not being used.  With GHSF’s mission of connecting gardeners with land, REF decided that the area could be used for a better purpose! Ron and Bonnie began gardening in this new designated area in early 2017.  REF helped by adding on to their irrigation system to make it easier for them to water all the vegetable plants.  These are a few photos of that garden.

The Results: Enough produce to sell to you!

The results were fantastic!  Produce from this garden will be for sale at RabbitEye Farm right here in West Point, Georgia, just off of I-85 exit 6, on regular berry picking days: (link for directions below)
Thursdays and Sundays in June.  
Morning 6AM to 10AM and
Evening 5PM to 9PM. 
How convenient!  You can pick berries and get your produce at the same stop, all while supporting local farmers!

For easy directions click HERE.

The Red-Clay Gardening class was deemed a success!  Thank you to all who attended, your questions were great.  If you didn’t make it to our first permaculture session, there are still more things to learn.  Our next topic is “No Till/No Weed Winter Prep”.  I want to clarify the time of these sessions held on Sundays.  From 2:00 PM until around 3:00 PM will be the “educational part”, and then from 3:30 PM until 6:00 PM are tours, questions, discussion, fellowship and networking.  You do not have to stay for the entire time.  If you are only interested in the educational topic, then your time commitment is from 2:00 PM to around 3:00 PM.  Remember, these sessions are free in the month of January.  The meeting place is RabbitEye Farm 279 Grayhill School Road, West Point, GA (for now), but we are technically located next door.  With this wonderful weather, and the nature of our topics, we will be outside at RabbitEye Farm anyway.

As I take the Permaculture Design Course from Geoff Lawton, I am trying to provide a place where folks can gather to learn and share about sustainable gardening relevant to our area. Permaculture is an important movement that we all need to take part in.  If you are not familiar with the term permaculture, I will be glad to introduce you to it.

Gray Hill School Farm is an educational source.  We are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to keeping our community and land healthy through sustainable agriculture education.