AAUFRC_Urban_Farmer

Congratulations to @phermbrewing for winning awards in the first "Untapped Community Awards for Best Beers in Maryland". We are so proud to have been able to contribute our peppers for their Spicy Urban Pharmer!

Big thank you to Brad Humbert for letting us come up to Bear Branch Malting Facility and giving us a tour! A big thank you as well for donating some malting barley seed!

  December has come and gone. As we ring in the new year we excitedly plan what's to come. Our apples, peaches, blackberries, asparagus, hops, and grapes are all going into their second year of production this year. New additions will be joining our plants this year as well. We will be planting cut flowers where we previously had our sunflowers and we will be adding more vegetables and herbs to our hightunnel. Some more returning crops that will have to be replanted are our corn and our pumpkins. The buckwheat may be making a reappearance this year but may also be getting replaced with oats. As we come to the end of one successful year, we hope that the coming year will be filled with lots of life and success for our urban farm.

 During the first week of November a deer took out one of our apple trees at the graft union. We took some of the branches from the part that snapped off to graft onto the rootstock. It most likely won't survive the winter but it will be interesting to see if by a small chance it does. We've also painted our tree trunks white for the winter to prevent sunscald. We planted cereal rye in the hightunnel to keep the ground healthy and reduce the number of pests for next season. And our asparagus (a cold weather crop) is looking great!