Giving Back

Another uneventful day at the farm. This morning was spent donating our time to help another farmer get some equipment welded back together and delivering meals on wheels to those in need within our community. It feels good to give back and help others. Coldwater Creek Farms was featured in a article in Friday's Independent Tribune. For this project, we are donating plants and expertise to start a community garden in Kannapolis. We will be working with the Kannapolis Environmental Stewardship Committee and the First Wesleyan Church with Pastor James. The goals for this project are to provide low income families with the ability to produce their own food, and to help those less fortunate within our community. Any extra food produced from this project will be given to those in need and to local food banks. The rest of our day was spent bumping up more tomato plants. One was a local variety that was developed in Kannapolis in the late 1980's, and another our special variety Ohio 94. Ohio 94 is a variety that was developed in central Ohio by one of Brad's childhood friends and classmates. Neither of these varieties are available in a catalogue.... that's what makes them special. They are unique to our own region, and to one backyard in central Ohio. We bumped up 154 plants yesterday, and 360 today. Another 514 tomato plants which puts us up to about 1500 tomato plants so far this year with an estimated 500 to 600 more which should have us at our target goal of 2000 tomato plants for this spring.