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Leaky Buckets & Economic Independence

With the 4th of July upon us, I keep thinking about an article I read from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. “In the leaky bucket analogy for local economies, money flows into a region to circulate through local businesses like water into a bucket. Water that leaks out is money that escapes the local economy to pay […]

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This Week at CommonWealth: Bountiful

Rain again! Someone turned the spigot off and the heat on, a couple weeks ago. We are so grateful to have rain again. Nothing like the garden to give you a daily consciousness of the weather! Our most productive harvest years have always been when we had frequent rain. Plants may not require that much […]

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Beautiful Warm Winter Day for Urban Farming

We had a wonderful, warm and sunny winter day today to prepare two additional beds for early spring planting. They had a lot of roots and stubborn nut grass.

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CommonWork, Aug. 27

CommonWork is a new weekly workday on Saturdays from 8am-11am. CommonWork is a time for the CommonWealth community and neighbors to get their hands dirty for the preparation and maintenance of the CommonWealth gardens. We had a blast working on the Ollie lot this week. Lia, Hannah, and Clem spent most of the time weeding […]

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    • 2025: New Beginnings at CommonWealth Urban Farms!

      2025: New Beginnings at CommonWealth Urban Farms!

      2025 Partner Farmers Lia’s Garden at CommonWealthI took a bit of time-off over the winter to recharge my batteries, including lots of long walks in the woods. Now I’m starting hundred of seeds every week, and our compost-heated greenhouse is keeping my baby plants warm and happy through these up and down temperatures. Even after […]Read More »

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