Speaker Tonight:
At 8PM in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union: Martha Hennessy: Dorothy Day: Inspiration for the 21st Century Radical
In the midst of the Great Depression and between two world wars, Dorothy Day cofounded the "Catholic Worker." Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day's granddaughter, will discuss the relevance of the Catholic Worker movement today and share her experiences of living the Catholic Worker life. Part of the Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture Series.

Workdays:
This Saturday (Oct 8, from 9AM-4PM)
We'll be protecting our trees for the winter from rabbits and deer, so that we can have a good crop of fruit and maybe nut next year. We'll also be taking down our fence, cleaning up some plants, and planting cover crops, such as the radish planted among the eggplant in the picture above. Depending on the weather, there will likely be some crops to harvest as well. Come for a few hours or all day. If you're coming all day, you should bring your own lunch, as our fall kitchen sometimes doesn't get enough sun to cook lunch for a large group.

The Friday after that (Oct 14, 9AM-4PM)
This August, we harvested garlic that we had planted last October. It was a great crop, and now it's time to plant next year's crop. This will give it a chance to grow throughout the fall and early spring. We'll be preparing beds and planting cloves from this year's harvest. We also will likely be doing some of the farm tasks that didn't get done on the previous workday, and again, might be harvesting if there's still harvest to be had. Again, if you're coming all day, bring your own lunch!

Fall leaves
Something like the time schedule for garlic, we're also preparing for next season by collecting leaves to mulch next year's potatoes. If you have a yard with lots of bags of leaves in Ames, let us know, and we'll try to figure out a way to get them to our farm.