• Garden Crawl 2012

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• Herb Spiral

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• Kaylee

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• Kaylee Garden prior to planting

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• Julee giving a tour

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• juleetourfielda

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• Inside the hoop house

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• Inside the hoop house

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• fieldofkale

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• farmers10

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• farmer08

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• hoophouses arial view

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Take a look around this website and you’ll get a feeling and a glimpse about Rippling Waters Organic Farm.  A non-profit farm dedicated to promoting food security through education, action, and service.  We want to help you grow your own food and we grow your food through organic broad-acre permaculture methods and our mantra is “Sustaining the Soul of Organics”.  Hope you enjoy and can visit us some day.

May Update:

We are staffed! Now for a glorious, productive, summer……

journey folks:  Stowe, Marina, & BrennaMae
apprentices:  Molly and KatyJayne
school & senior gardens coordinator:  Ian
FoodCorps member:  Jane

-Hiring interns, WWOOFers, Workshares, and volunteers for upcoming season.

-Wholesale CSA for restaurants and small local stores.  See what it’s all about here.

-Check out our newest Farmers’ Market in Gorham, Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., beside Baxter Library

EVENTS:

OPEN HOUSE at Rippling Waters Farm.  Featuring free seed potatoes, 1/2 price pansies & violas, Free “Name your Companion Plant’ 6-pack, Free Children’s 6-pack, “Ask the Staff” Garden Help, and Door Prizes.  Free Recipes & Samples.

Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., May 25 & 26.

GOURMET GARDEN CRAWL join us for our annual extravaganza celebrating our school gardens.  Some of the local chefs who will be cooking for us are:

Mary Paine fromt the Pepper Club and Good Egg Cafe in Portland
Jonah Fertiz from Local Sprouts in Portland
Nicholas Nappi from Local 188 in Portland
Stu Leckie from Bon Appetit at Saint Joseph College
Jeff Landry from The Farmers Table in Portland

Click here for more info and to buy tickets.

Annie’s Homegrown, Evangelical Luthern World Hunger Project, Gorham Savings Bank, Francis Hollis Brain Foundation, Francis R. Dewing Foundation, Lowell Foundation, Maine Ag in the Classroom, Maine Community Foundation, Maine Initiatives, National Resource Conservation Service, Narragansett Number One Foundation, Sadie and Harry David Foundation, Sanford Institution for Savings, Virginia Hodgkin Somers Foundation and the USDA. We also want to thank individual donors and local businesses who provide financial support as well.