Summer 2004 goals included: on-site  composting, raising laying hens, winter storage crops for the hungry,  farm  manual, cover crop trials, tree fruit demonstration planting, hoophouse erection, and farmstand. 

 A new club function included having  the officers conduct Independent Studies for credit.   . Yarrow Collins spearheaded the storage crop effort,  with  crops including potatoes, carrots, winter squash, onions, cabbage, and  beets.  Yarrow and work-study students  built an  insulated 8’x16’ root cellar chamber, funded by The Friends of the  Horticulture Farm.  Yarrow also worked on a  farm manual, cover  crop trials, and planting fruit trees for Elena Garcia’s Organic Fruit  Production class. 

 We sold our own vegetable  transplants, herb divisions, and peach trees at The Friends May 21st  Bloom-Time Festival.  Summer  employees traded labor for corn with Grad student Sandra Menasha. Vern  Grubinger toured the farm on August 9th.   Small fruit CSA add-ons were picked by us at: Full Moon Farm  (strawberries); New Leaf Organics (raspberries), Blueberry Hill and  Willow Hill  Farm (blueberries).  Seed saving efforts  included garlic and potatoes.   Dehydration included: hot peppers, basil, flowers, and tomatoes.  The on-campus farmstand was held once a week  for the first four weeks of fall semester. An independent contractor named Mike Carr erected our new  hoophouse in  November with the help of Rob Ard.

Fall club activities included: a weekly student harvest until  early October; cider pressing; preparing: salsa, pesto, and pumpkin  pie;  growing winter greenhouse crops, including: tomatoes, cukes, peppers,  peas,  beans, and greens.