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Lady Moon Farms talks to fifth grade students about vegetables After the great experience we had visiting middle school students we wanted to talk to a younger group. We found a fifth grade class that allowed us to stop by and ask a few questions. We wanted to learn more about how the students felt …
Looking for a great read to settle in for the winter? Kristin Kimball’s “The Dirty Life”, is farm fantastic. A true story about a Manhattan writer and Harvard graduate. While on a writing assignment she meets Mark, a farmer with very clear organic ideas on farming. How does a 13 year vegetarian fall for a …
Lady Moon Farms, is very excited about The Kale Project’s Kristen Beddard’s success with getting the French to embrace kale.With National Kale Day (October 2nd) only days away, Americans have already jumped aboard the kale band wagon. You don’t have to look far to find some type of kale concoction on most trendy US restaurant menus. Tom …
In 2012, Lady Moon Farms donated enough food to provide 234,836 meals to feed Delaware Valley neighbors in need.
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank used tomatoes donated by Lady Moon Farms to make spaghetti sauce for hungry families. In the last three years Lady Moon Farms has donated over 1,499,000, pounds of fresh produce to help close the hunger gap. Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is commited to fighting hunger, improving lives and strengthening communities. This summer …
Making A Difference – Donating 3 Years of Produce By the end of 2013, Lady Moon Farms will have donated over one million pounds of food to Farm Share. Since 2010, Lady Moon Farms has donated over 849,000 pounds of fresh produce working to end hunger. Farm Share’s main objective is to recover and distribute …
Record Day For Lady Moon Farms Tom Beddard of Lady Moon Farms presented a $10,389.00 check to PASA on May 23, 2013 – donated for Earth Day. On May 23rd Tom stood on Four Season’s Produce sales desk shouting, “You are the best distributor in the country”, while throwing t-shirts out to the staff. Employees …
We are often asked, “Is Lady Moon Farms Organic?” Tom Beddard, co-founder and President of Lady Moon Farms, has been committed to growing 100% organic since 1988. Back in the day when organic was barely talked about, Tom felt that it was wrong to grow food with the poisons that most farmers were using to …
Lady Moon Farms Donates $10,384 to PASA During Earth Week Lady Moon Farms partnered again with Four Seasons Produce for a Four Seasons Earth Week Promotion. (April 21-27th) Lady Moon donated $1.00 for every case of Lady Moon produce sold by Four Seasons during the promotion. A total of $10,384, was raised and donated to Pennsylvania Association …
How do kids like their vegetables? Lady Moon Farms wanted to know. You might be surprised by what we found. Lady Moon Farms was interested in finding out more about kids and vegetables. We sent Karen Kain to get some answers. This is a four part series working with a seventh grade horticulture class. I …
Twenty Eight Students Complete A Survey About What They Eat And Why Lady Moon Farms wanted to know what vegetables middle school students were eating. We surveyed twenty eight students asking about the vegetables they were eating, what they preferred, and whether they wanted to learn more about nutrition. We asked the following 10 questions.
Lady Moon Farms returns to middle school and gets the students juicing. The class was familiar with juicing fruits and had tried canned vegetable juice before. Most had never heard of juicing kale or chard and had no idea what the dandelion greens were.
On my first visit to the middle school horticulture class I learned that every student was responsible for maintaining a virtual plant. Each day they logged onto a computer which provided them the condition of the plant, statistics and all the tools to maintain it. I brought in carrots, kale & radish seeds so that …
Lady Moon Returns to Middle School To Make Kale Smoothies. On our final trip to visit the middle school campus we brought ingredients to make kale smoothies. The students had been great sports trying everything that we shared with them and were pleasantly surprised that they enjoyed the smoothies. Many of the students were not interested …
Tom Beddard addresses the crowd at PASA’s 2013 Conference Tom Beddard shares his start as a farmer and how his passion kept him strong at the 22nd annual Farming for the Future Conference. Tom’s passion to work out doors in all kinds of weather, working from home, not wearing a suit and tie, being …
Lady Moon Farms Recognized as PASA Permanent Business Partner The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) recently recognized its newest Permanent Business Partner, Lady Moon Farms. Lady Moon Farms spans 1,500 acres and it is the largest grower of organic produce on the East coast.
Lady Moon Farms Featured in Book “Tomatoland” Barry Estabrook author of Tomatoland started his tomato fascination after watching a shiny round tomato roll off his kitchen cabinet smashing onto the floor, remaining in a perfect round shape. He started with what he thought were simple questions he wanted answered, “Why can’t modern agribusinesses deliver …
The 411 on Cover Crops At the end of each growing season, after everything is harvested, we use a disk plow (see photo) to break up and incorporate what remains of the plants into the soil. A sort of multi-purpose cover crop is then sown into the soil. This cover crop is used to control …
Lady Moon Farms Receives Innovation Award for Fair Practices Lady Moon Farms, the largest grower of organic produce on the east coast with farms in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida, has received an Innovation Award from Whole Foods Market. The natural and organic grocery chain’s first ever Supplier Awards, presented May 22 in Austin, Texas, recognizes …
On February 11th, the Sustainable Agriculture Working Group hosted Tom Beddard, founder and president of Lady Moon Farms, as the fourth speaker in the Sustainable Agriculture Seminar Series. Learn More Here