This March marks our first spring planting at our edible garden but before being able to go ahead a trip to our local farmer in cohorts was required. Kevin Flaim of the Panther farm in Vineland took us on a tour of his working commercial farm to show children just where there vegetables come from and how they get to the supermarket.
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| Kevin Flaim of Panther farms |
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| this is a special planting machine that takes each of the carefully greenhouse seeded transplants and one by one mechanically plants them in the ground |
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| another view of the planting machine |
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| the newly planted crops |
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| a dry fertilizer spreader |
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| more crops to plant |
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| because it is threatening to snow again the new tender transplants must be covered with a "paper towel-like" tarp. |
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| Kevin shows us how the spinach crop from last year is coming back, but due to the weather extremes it is pale yellow to white in some places. He hopes it will come back as it warms up. |
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| We are shown the root structure to a Kale plant that has been planted last year and is coming back again this year |
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| Finally, tender leek shoots are growing in the warmth of this long narrow greenhouse, one of many his farm has. |
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| These are leeks one year in the making! |
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| Kevin shares some leeks for us to take home and cook! |
What's on our menu for Newbie's early Spring garden:
This time around we will be planting, red and yellow beets, red and green chard, kale and red cabbage from transplants Kevin has donated and from seed we will be planting carrots, snap peas, mustard greens, spinach and radishes!!!
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