Community Seed Exchange
Swap seeds every spring at our community building event for sharing information about gardening, plant varieties, and farm projects. Exchanges in March, April and May.
Farm Apprenticeship
Students from Govardhana Academy are helping and learning from local farmers about growing, harvesting, ox plowing and transplanting. This year, students transplanted fruit trees, strawberries and learned about plant care and greenhouse management.
Planting Local Beans and crops
We want to produce our own staple food crops. Govardhan Academy school lunch program ingredients come from 6-14,000 km away to get to the mouths of our children. Again this coming growing season we will grow beans and other food crops. One row of beans can produce about 50lbs of beans. This is a good amount of staple food for a family. Some of the work to be done:
- Preparing the beds
- Planting the beans
- Hoop hoeing the beds when weeds are small
- Making sure they have sufficient water
- Harvesting the beans
- Shelling beans
- Serving food and drink to the farmers
- Sharing kirtan with the farmers and beans
Many hands make light work as is so often proven in this great valley. This is an open project meaning its open to all and is open to input, change and suggestion.
Community Supported Agriculture
The co-op continues a successful CSA and home delivery. The CSA encourages food production, consumption and security in our community.
Home Lake Cooperative
We are building infrastructure for our farmers and marketing channels for our producers. Our current activities include: Seed bank, tree and plant nursery; Berry, nut and fruit orchards;Training ox to plow fields; Irrigation systems; Permaculture education and development; Acquiring farming tools and equipment; Community seed bank and cold storage. Cooperative website
