AntFarm Youth Gardens in Sandy and Estacada strengthen and teach youth through service learning, recognition of food instability, active work and movement, and skills development. Youth learn valuable work, life and social skills while reinforcing awareness of civic responsibility. Youth and community members participate in planting, growing, and harvesting food. Every year, our youth gardens produce a multitude of healthy, fresh vegetables which are distributed through direct giving to community members in need and local food banks. Youth can get started now by filling out this Welcome Packet.
AntFarm Youth Gardens
Lots has been happening in our gardens this fall; here is a little update below including our new Garden Club hours for fall and winter! We have been planting native perennial shrubs, trees, and other plants that we received through the @xercessociety to build native pollinator hedgerow habitats. We have been covering our compost bins with manure for the winter (donated by @zebswish. We are seeding winter crops like radishes, turnips, and beets. We are happily eating the rest of our watermelon! And we have been making seed packets of native seeds. SANDY YOUTH GARDEN Wednesdays 12p-1p Thursdays 12p-1p Saturdays 12p-1p ESTACADA YOUTH GARDEN Wednesdays 4p-5p Fridays 10a-12p Please be sure your kiddo is dressed to stay dry and warm when they come to volunteer. New youth attendees will need to fill out a Welcome Packet; contact Amanda for more info at amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com. See More
AntFarm Youth Gardens
There is still lots to do in our Learning Gardens this fall! If you know a youth that loves to garden or wants to learn, Garden Club is the place for them! This is a great way to learn about plants, make friends with bees and bugs, and more, so come giving gardening a try! 🍏🍆🍓🌲
SANDY: Thursdays 12p-2p
ESTACADA: Wednesdays 4p-6p; Fridays 10a-12p
For more information, or to sign up for Garden Club email: amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com
AntFarm Youth Gardens
Do you know a youth that you know that loves to garden or wants to learn? Garden Club has 2023 fall hours, and Da, our Lead Gardener, offers Garden Club times at both Youth Garden locations! This is a great way to learn about plants, make friends with bees and bugs, and more, so come giving gardening a try!
SANDY: Thursdays 12p-2p
ESTACADA: Wednesdays 4p-6p; Fridays 10a-12p
For more information, or to sign up for Garden Club email: amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com
AntFarm Youth Gardens
This last week in the Youth Gardens:
We continued to prepare beds for direct seeding winter crops, tended to our large compost bins, saved seeds, culled dying plants, pulled weeds, transplanted, and mourned the loss of some important crops that were taken without permission from the Estacada Youth Garden.
Harvested: cantaloupe, apples, eggplant, okra, corn, carrots, beets, basil, parsley, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, collard greens, kale, chard, and more!
Planted: carrots, beets, celery
AntFarm Youth Gardens
Last week in the Youth Gardens: Our Summer Work Program worked hard to tend compost bins, prepare new beds for direct seeding, pulling weeds, trellised tomatoes, and helped carve out steps in the dirt. The Empathy Group volunteers helped to lay out the rest of our wood-chips pile in the pathways and clean up the front berms in Sandy! We want to give a Hugh shout out to our maintenance crew, Mike and Cole, who fixed a big leak and busted underground pipe at the Sandy Youth Garden! Harvested: eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, leafy greens, beets, carrots, cucumbers, squash, onions, blackberries, apples 🫑🍆🍅🥬🥕🍎🧅🥒🍈 Planted: romano bush beans, Hakurai turnips, carrots Seed Saving: zucchini, eight ball squash, tomatoes -Spanish Translation- La semana pasada en los Jardines de la Juventud: Nuestro Programa de trabajo de verano trabajó arduamente para cuidar los contenedores de compost, preparar nuevas camas para la siembra directa, quitar See More
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This last week in the Youth Gardens:
AntFarm’s Summer Work Program began building a wood-chip bed for cultivating edible mushrooms, we side dressed cucumbers and winter squash with compost from our compost bins, began hand pollinating our small corn patch, and transplanted more tomatoes/peppers into rows with crimped rye grain mulch.
Harvested: squash, cherry tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, beets, carrots, kale, collards, chard, onions, dill flowers
Planted: radishes, turnips, beets, kale
AntFarm Youth Gardens
This last week in the Youth Gardens:
We made a Florida Weave trellis and pruned back tomatoes! We also took out some overpowering weeds, saved seed from Lacy Phacelia and some winter turnips, side dressed zucchini row with our homemade compost, and harvested a lot (see list below)!
HARVEST: New Zealand spinach, carrots, beets, turnips, jalapeños, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, kohlrabi, kale, chard, collard greens, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, parsley, basil, potatoes, and white, yellow and red onions
PLANTED: carrots, radishes
TRANSPLANTED: cantaloupe, jack-o-lanterns, okra
To learn more about our Youth Gardens, or to get involved, email Da at amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com
AntFarm Youth Gardens
This last week in the Youth Gardens: AntFarm’s Summer Work Program started this week! There are about 20 SWP interns who have a work placement in the Sandy Youth Garden. They come with a range of experiences from growing food to working with tools. Just like any youth volunteers, SWP interns will be weeding, turning compost bins, harvesting, direct seeding, transplanting, and any other jobs that come up in the garden. We harvested raspberries, kohlrabi, celery, red cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, butter lettuce, romaine, dill flowers, turnips, collard greens, kale, chard, parsley, and carrots (pictured). We also planted green beans and radishes! To learn more about our Youth Gardens, or to sign up for Youth Garden Club, please email our Lead Gardener: amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com -Spanish Translation- Esta última semana en los Jardines de la Juventud: ¡El programa de trabajo de verano de AntFarm comenzó esta semana! Hay alrededor de 20 pasantes See More
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This last week in the Youth Gardens:
We have been working in the garden harvesting for our families of volunteers, the Sandy Action Center, and our table at the Mount Hood Farmers Market!
(Harvested: raspberries, salmon berries, peas, carrots, kohlrabi, beets, zucchini and yellow squash, garlic, parsley, dill flowers (pictured), basil, lettuce, turnips, celery, kale, collards, chard, red and white onions, chamomile)
We also planted green beans, trellised tomatoes (pictured), made mini flower bouquets (pictured), and processed garlic for curing.
AntFarm Youth Gardens
This week in the Youth Gardens:
We are very busy in the Youth Learning Gardens in both Sandy and Estacada! We have harvested lots of crops for the youth, staff, and Sandy Action Center! (dill, lettuce, kale, collard greens, chard, carrots, beets, turnips, fennel, kohlrabi, garlic, garlic scapes, raspberries, strawberries, and chamomile)
We also transplanted, braided garlic for curing, turned compost, trellised tomatoes, and prepared veggie starts to pass off to our AntFarm Molalla Summer Work Program. We have started almost every single plant by seed this year!
To learn more about this program, please contact:
Garden Programs- Amanda (Da) Ronquillo, E-mail Da at amandar@antfarmyouthservices.com
