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Children’s Healthcare Garden at Scottish Rite
Every week we tend to this special garden we built last year as part of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong 4 Life obesity awareness campaign. It is so rewarding to see the children at the hospital and their families out there picking flowers, eating veggies and having lunch there enjoying the healing space. We just [...]
Speck (Kevin Pratt) Joins Farmer D
When it comes to community Kevin “Speck” Pratt is here to help. With a background in publishing, mediation, design and community organizing, he comes to Farmer D to help figure out new ways we can work with you to accomplish your goals and to change your relationship with food and the land. He developed his [...]
Planting Guide April 15-30
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Welcoming Reese Baker to the Team
Reese Baker comes to us as a farmer, educator and landscape designer. After getting his degree in Ecological Agriculture at New College of California, he worked in California, Vermont, and Florida gaining production and management experience with a number of successful organic farms. He has focused on a permaculture approach to farming and is dedicated to [...]
Farmer D Products Featured in Williams Sonoma’s New Agrarian Line
Farmer D’s signature products are now headlining William-Sonoma’s new Agrarian line! Our raised-bed kits, beds on legs, and herb box set along with our soils and fertilizers are all part of a new seed to table initiative at one of the most well respected retailers in the country. To find out more, go to williams-sonoma.com [...]
Planting Guide April 01-15
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Planting with the children from the Nicholas House
This is from the planting I did yesterday with the children from the Nicholas House. We donated a raised bed garden to them and led an educational planting activity. It was great! Credit for the collage goes to Pattie Baker who planted hydroponic gardens for the children to take home. The teens are volunteers with [...]
What’s Growing On? Williams Sonoma and Book Deal
Farmer D goes to New York for a big PR launch party for the new Williams Sonoma Agrarian Line, which he and his products are prominently featured. Farmer D has been working on a big community farm project in Southern California with the Valley Crest Group and gets some more West Coast love from his [...]
Adapting Your Garden to an Early Spring
The spring season this year is moving fast without leaving us time for the much loved cool season crops like peas, spinach, collards, kale and more. That’s the downside. The upside is an early season for warm season crops like tomatoes, basil, okra, beans and cucumbers to name a few. I am by no means [...]
Planting Guide March 15-31
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
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