Spring-ish, Plant Babies & Mushroom Pasta
#96: Spring Happenings @ Featherstone Garden
Welcome to Featherstone’s Garden Happenings Newsletter, where we share our garden updates, plant and fungi-forward recipes, details about our farmstand and onsite events, cat pics, & more. As a subscriber, you will be the first to know about our Garden Happenings. If you’re not a newsletter subscriber but would like to be, click below to signup.
Here comes the sun!
By: Farmer Annie
Ok, so it’s not quite spring, but with the longer brighter days our sleepy garden is starting to wake up for the 2024 season. Crocuses are our first beauties to pop up in the Spring, and they were a very welcome sight last week! Thanks to early spring flowers the sprouting summer seedlings germinating in the greenhouse, the stress of winter is fading and the excitement and anticipation for a new growing season is creeping up on me. So far we have seeded tomatoes, peppers, basil, marigolds, snapdragons, cosmos, scallions, oxalis, nasturtium, hyacinth beans, scarlet runner beans, bachelor buttons, alyssum, violas, and anise hyssop; some of which will be planted in our greenhouses and others that will make their way outside in early June.
Here Come the Babies
This past weekend I seeded most of our sweet and hot peppers (about 700 plants)! Moving into my eighth growing season, I still find that seeding and planting are my favorite garden tasks (and maybe seed shopping and loving on the cats). I never cease to be amazed that when I tuck a little seed into the soil and give it just the right amount of moisture and heat, it bursts into life and begins its journey to eventually produce (often) hundreds of new seeds by the end of the season.
Our Favorite Seed Sources
If you are still shopping for seeds for your garden, I highly recommend a few of our go-to seed companies: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Johnny’s Seeds , Trade Winds, Carmel Bella, and Seed Savers
Rolling Microgreen and Mushroom Signup
Sign up for the final 4-weeks of our mushroom and microgreens subscriptions. Enjoy a rotating variety of delicious and nutritious microgreens that are perfect as a raw snack, or as toppings for tacos, sandwiches, soup, pasta, stir fry etc.
New to cooking mushrooms but curious to try them out? Each week your mushroom subscription comes with a recipe card for a super easy and yummy dish.
Subscription pickup locations include MorningSide Detroit (on the Eastside) Midtown (for TechTown members only), and Ann Arbor.
Wednesday Pickup Details for Subscribers
Featherstone MorningSide
4178 Lakepointe Street Detroit
Wednesday 12-5pm
*text or call 704-996-3711 when you arrive and we will bring your order to your car
OR
TechTown (for TechTown members only)
4040 Burroughs Street Detroit
Wednesday 12-7pm
*orders are available for pickup from the front desk
OR
Ann Arbor
Northeast Ann Arbor, off of Plymouth Rd. and M-23 (The exact address will be emailed to you upon signup)
Wednesday 3-7pm
Questions? Email annie@featherstonegarden.com
Springtime Pussies: It’s Kitty Season
It’s that time of year when kitties start showing up in many neighborhoods. If you come across some outdoor kittens or would like help trapping, neutering, and returning (TNR) feral cats in your neighborhood, feel free to reach out to us and we will do our best to help you or connect you to the appropriate resources. Email: hello@featherstonegarden.com
Thanks for reading!
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Have a great week,
Annie, Ame, and Aaron
+ Chili, Bean, Ginger & Fig (our farm cats ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞,₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞)
Rooted in Waawiyatanong (Detroit), Featherstone garden is a femme and minority owned business that is dedicated to land stewardship and growing produce year-round for neighbors and local restaurants. As an all-natural operation, the garden intercrops veggies, herbs, fungi, and flowers that complement each other as companions, nurture soil and beneficial insects, and contribute to a healthy urban ecosystem. At both their downtown and MorningSide locations, Featherstone offers space for the community to enjoy the healing benefits of gardening and consuming plant and fungi-forward foods.