Younger and Wiser had farm ee-i-ee-i-o

For Younger and Wiser's final spring project we headed south to Marra Farm to spend an afternoon in the sun and act like Old McDonald.

Marra Farm is an urban community farm in Seattle's Southpark community teaching sustainable agriculture through community gardens and private P-patches. Last year Marra Farm grew more then 16,000 pounds of food, most of which was donated to local food banks. The Farm also hosts local elementary students to teach them about the importance of eating healthy and show them just how delicious fresh vegetables can be.

We arrived at Marra Farms around 10am on what would turn out to be one of the nicest saturdays of the month, good thing we had sunscreen. After what seemed like an extra long talk from the director of Marra farms (who accused us of not knowing what a globe is) we got to work. We split up into a few small groups some of us cleared vegetable beds which had been resting for a season so they could be planted later that day while others worked on building the largest compost pile ever. Ralph took on the amazing task of weed-whacking most of the 4 acre farm and put on his ear and eye protection and went to town. After the vegetable beds had been cleared we planted summer squash and corn in the newly usable beds. We also did some great work building bamboo structures for green beans to climb and were allowed to take home some 'rouge' potatoes. It was a great day and we all plan on going back in a few months to see how the vegetables we planted have done.