Boulder Belt Eco-Farm

03/01/2025

Lots of fresh produce at the RFM. Here until noon

03/01/2025

The RFM is looking lit today.
We will have carrots, kale, chard, collards, butternut squash (this has been sweeter than sweet potatoes), fresh herbs, garlic, a few Brussle's sprouts, turnips, beets, garlic powder and more

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All vendor booths open at 9am, with LIVE MUSIC by Highwater Troubadors starting at 10am!

03/01/2025

We often do companion planting to save space. Here we have radishes (heart shaped leaves) and spinach (long thin leaves) growing together. the radishes will be harvested weeks before the spinach is ready and will shade out a lot of the weeds that can impede the spinachs' growth. The radishes should be ready at the end of the March and the Spinach in early April. most will likely go to ur farm Share members. If you want in on the farm share goodness you can buy a share here https://app.squareup.com/dashboard/items/library/PZCBE4GOVNRP3M742SAM72W6

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02/27/2025

02/27/2025

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A skunk has moved into our store overnight, probably in the attic crawl space. Don’t know how to deal with it or exactly it got in
At any rate the building stinks

02/27/2025

The kale is a lot bigger. It will be harvestable in about 2 weeks

02/26/2025

Vole damage on broccoli. A few are trying to grow back but are probably too damaged to make big heads

02/26/2025

Farmer Eugene is spreading pelleted Organic fertilizer by hand

02/26/2025

The GOP in the House voted to slash SNAP and WIC. Few people realize that SNAP is a farm subsidy, the GOP seems to believe that SNAP only affects the poor. Around 1/4 of our farmers market sales are SNAP/WIC sales. Grocery stores depend on SNAP and WIC sales for likely a third of their sales, especially in rural areas where on average 12% of the population receives SNAP. That population spends their SNAP dollars at places like Kroger, mom and pop grocery stores, and farmers markets. Most farmers markets in the USA will double SNAP dollars usually up to $20 or $40 but at the RFM they do unlimited doubling due to a progressive grant from the Reid Foundation, so SNAP recipients can get hundreds of dollars to spend at the Richmond Farmers Market. Many people take advantage of this and are able to feed their families high quality food and double how far those benefits go. This translates into more sales for the produce, honey and meat farmers at the RFM that will likely be lost now that this farm subsidy has been slashed.

This is a lose lose situation that does not make America great by any measure except the one that enriches the wealthy even more while screwing over rural and main street America

02/26/2025

Bubbles hunting a vole. Yes he succeeded dog