Promoting Urban Agriculture in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area
The back side of the awesome t-shirts Dylan made with the design that Emily created!
Thank you Dylan for making these shirts and Emily for creating the design for them! We hope to sell these on campus next semester!
I have unfortunate news for everyone… This will be the last semester for the TU Urban Farm. Apparently, TU wants to build a second shed for the President’s golf cart…April fools!! The TU Urban Farm is still growing, and will continue to grow thanks to all of the amazing students and faculty involved with the farm!
Our seedlings are just about ready to be planted in the ground! As long as we have warm weather ahead of us, we will be planting them at our work day this weekend as well as next week when we have Dr. Fath’s classes come to visit us. April is an exciting month for us at the farm, we will be having several work days (including plenty of beautification projects), some class visits, leading at session (along with the Baltimore Orchard Project) at TU’s Environmental Conference, and selling some seedlings on campus!
Be sure to stop by for our meeting this week on Thursday at 5pm at the farm, or come out for our work day this Saturday 4/6 11am to 2pm!
The TU Urban Farm’s seedlings in the greenhouse. Thank you Rida for this beautiful photo!
Spring was just a week ago and already we’ve had a snow day, but it looks like warm weather ahead of us and more work days to come! We have spinach growing in one of our cold frames, garlic, carrots, and herbs in a few of our beds. This past weekend, we had a workday to kick off this growing season and now we have a tree stump meeting location (picture to come!) under some fruit trees. Happy Spring!
The Towson University Urban Farm held it’s first ever Farmer’s Market last Wednesday (9/21). Both fruit and vegetables were freshly harvested that very morning, washed, and then sorted by hard working T.U.U.F. volunteers. Even though the market was only advertised using social networking sites and word of mouth we had a great turn out. The produce that was not sold during the market was purchased by Campus Catering Services and served in the campus dining halls. With each new project the farm finds new opportunity to grow and gain new members. Please come join us for our Fall harvest and hoop house plantings. In the mean time, enjoy these pictures from the market. The Towson University Urban Farm would like to thank Campus Dining Services for their support.
One reason the Towson University Urban Farm was established was to teach others about the importance of farms and sustainable food practices. We recently hosted a group of local middle school students and explained the process of growing and harvesting organic food. The group was very attentive and had already obtained a wealth of knowledge concerning food and farms from their teacher. Also, their help watering the garden was greatly appreciated!
Here are some pictures of the recent onion harvest. This was T.U.U.F.’s first time growing onions and it was a smashing success.
One of the the main goals of the T.U.U.F. is to attain a reasonable level of sustainability. From re-using barrels that once housed ingredients for soft drinks to make a rain water catchment system, to recycling plastic bottles to use as pots, the T.U.U.F. prides itself on having very little to no waste.
Cody Kepner, fellow T.U.U.F. member, is leading the way in sustainable living and organized the 1st annual Towson University Free Clothing exchange. The purpose of the event was to allow Towson University students and faculty to exchange old clothing with no exchange of money. The event was a huge success and Cody plans to expand the event in the future to include other items besides clothing (books, appliances, etc.). Read more about the Free Clothing Exchange in the Towson University newspaper.
