April Thanks from Connie

Dear Friends of the Colchester Neighborhood Farm,

Great Big THANKS  to Smokey Joe for repairing all of the leaks in all of the pipes from the winter weather and to Ben and Josh for replacing the toilet. We now have the water turned on at the front greenhouse, and the rest of the barn! (no more lugging 5 gallon jugs form home or from the potting shed), YEAH!!

We even have hot and cold running water to wash our hands… what luxury!

Thanks to Chef Carol and Michele for defrosting the freezers and updating the inventory of meats.

Thanks to Jennifer for picking up the flower plugs from the PCCS plant sale

Chef Carol also spent an afternoon potting up those flower plugs that will be going into our flower bed when the wattle fence is done.

Peter and Nick and Evan have spent the better part of 2 Saturdays working on that wattle fence for the flower bed. As with many jobs, there is a lot of nearly invisible prep work to be done before anything noticeable is evident. It is finally beginning to take shape as a fence. Using the cadence of PULL, PUSH, SNIP to lay the saplings horizontally, they now have 2 layers down.

Thanks to Dominique and Taylor for continuing to prune blueberries, potting up (and planting in the ground) lots of bulbs, renovating the rhubarb bed, lots of planting seeds in the greenhouse.

Simba- thanks for catching at least a rodent a day.

Taylor and Kate for keeping up with our blog

Mark for maintaining our website

Beth for wizardry with spread sheets

Juli for animal care, plus planting and pruning

Hannah - animal care, planting and watering and moving seedlings about

Ana for filling the seed pots with soil

Cogan family, plus Josh, Matt, Bobby and Alexis for getting a start on weeding the strawberries

To all of our volunteers, thank you for helping out wherever needed and keeping the cheeriness and youthful enthusiasm level on high.

Thanks to everyone who bagged their fallen leaves so we could follow the ‘you bag ‘em, we’ll drag ‘em’ maxim and especially thanks to those who delivered leaves to the farm.

Thanks to Ron for collecting raked leaves from all over the region, and dumping, spreading and incorporating them into the Colchester soil.

As you can see, it takes a lot of helping hands to keep Colchester running.  Thanks for everything you do for us!