chicken coop. It’s 4’ x 4’, and it’s currently got peas, broccoli, radicchio, lettuce, leeks, and cabbages. I will add radishes, scallions, more lettuce, cukes, beans and herbs All varieties are “dwarf” or compact—bred to take up little space. The cucumbers and beans can climb.

Next to the fence up by the chickens are nine varieties of greens:

Tom Thumb Baby Bibb Lettuce
Quarantina Raab
Really Red Deer Tongue Lettuce
Arugula
Catalogna Radichetta
Sylvetta Arugula
Michelle Batavian Lettuce
Lollo di Vino Lettuce
Speckled Amish Bibb Lettuce

In the fields, several perennial crops are growing: asparagus, three strawberry beds, sunchokes, and garlic planted last fall (five varieties).

In addition, three varieties of peas (if they survive the continuous chicken onslaught), two varieties of spinach, fava beans, parsley (flat and curly), two kinds of Brussels sprouts, two kinds of broccoli, two kinds of cabbages. The brassica are all under floating row cover.

I am going to weed the greenhouse next week and I also have things ready to go in at the beginning of next week: Belgian endive, radicchio, leeks, and onions.

The children from CHRHS Spectrum Program and the CRMS Prism Program planted two potato varieties last Friday morning and on May 14th Hope School third graders will plant the same. We are also aiming for the children of the Star Program to get planting out there too.
 

(Rockport, ME)