Cornerstone Community Farm

Last week, we saved native passionfruit (Passiflora virginiana) seeds with the BUG students. In addition to supporting native bees and butterflies, this vine produces beautiful flowers and tasty fruits, which are great for learning wet-process seed saving.

Seeds fermented for three days to loosen them from the flesh of the fruits. Students washed and decanted the seeds, and we dried them on an old window screen. Swipe to see the process and stay tuned to see if we have seedlings for sale in the spring!

🌸📸: Joseph Marcus, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

🍂SAVE THE DATE🍂

Come out and enjoy Fairfield Middle School’s 3rd annual Fall Fest!! 🎃

There’s going to be lots of learning, food, and prizes! You won’t want to miss it! 🍁
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Meet the Cornerstone team!

🐌Claire Dilday

Claire has recently graduated from VCU with an Environmental Studies degree focused on urban agriculture and food justice. She helped develope the Farmers Resource Project for the James River Soil and Water Conservation district and served as a data analyst and co writer for a research team devoted to improving the quality of food pantries in the United States.

🪲Ellanor Milkowski Dahlgren

Ellanor has a background in fine art, focusing on the human relationship to the more than human world. They have held a farming position at Alewife Farm in New York and a teaching Position at Echo Hill Outdoor School. They completed an Americorps term with Richmond Grows Gardens, the community gardens branch of Parks and Rec. They cherish bugs and all of the small critters that fly, wiggle and crawl.

🐝Nicole Shuman

After finishing college, Nicole developed her interest in agriculture by working on small-scale, diversified farms. She went on to earn her MPS from Cornell's International Agriculture and Rural Development Program, for which she developed a bilingual school garden manual during Peace Corps service in Paraguay. Most recently, she served for five years as an Extension Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension.

We are so grateful and excited to be apart of this incredible project!
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