This year our Farm has expanded to include chickens and rabbits (with more friends to come!) The intense heat isn’t fun for any of us, including our furry friends. Here’s how we’re keeping them comfortable: We moved all our rabbits from their elevated nests and into pens. Rabbits naturally cool down by spreading out on…
Our hydroponics systems are doing well! If you recall from our last update, we had just planted Indigo Rose tomatoes in hydroponics chambers. As you can tell from the photo below, they’re growing very quickly: Stay tuned for summer updates on the rest of The Farm! To learn more about The Farm at Fairplex, click…
Our five-acre urban farm provides food for the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel and serves as a classroom for our agriculture classes, but it’s not the only place where crops are grown on campus. Our Child Development Center (CDC) has its own special garden, tucked into a corner of the playground. It is here that students learn…
Growing an urban farm like ours takes a little creativity and a lot of agricultural know how. Thankfully we have plenty of both! While the majority of our crops are grown traditionally, we practice many farming techniques. We covered vertical farming in a couple months back and now we’re taking a look at our hydroponics…
The 48th District Schools’ Agriculture & Nutrition Fair is setting up shop at Fairplex this week! This year’s theme is Let It Grow, and student submissions have lived up to the theme handsomely. Each exhibit teaches you how the elements of agriculture (water, plants, bees, dairy etc) plays a significant role in our everyday lives.…
As some of you may know, we’ve renovated one of our old barns into a haven for several rabbits. One of our residents gave birth to five adorable bunnies last night! Mom and kids are doing well, staying in a warm nest away from the rest of the rabbits. We can’t wait to see these…
Every Thursday food trucks rumble onto campus, ready to serve our employees and neighbors a delicious variety of dinner items. This year we’re pleased to announce that we’re adding our own fare into the ring thanks to crops on the Farm! We’ll be selling fresh organic vegetables, herbs and young starter plants every week at…
Happy Earth Day! In celebration of this important day, our community team members left tomato plants for all our neighbors, taken from The Farm at Fairplex. Tonight we host the second 2016 Farm at Fairplex dinner out on The Farm. The weather is perfect for it.
If you couldn’t tell by our last few blog posts, we’re full-steam ahead for the Upland Lemon Festival next weekend… which led us to wondering how our own lemon trees are doing on The Farm. A quick visit showed us that our little grove is doing just fine 🙂
The Farm is more alive than ever these days! We can hear the cheeping of chicks in the barn, and a walk into one of our old stables reveals a whole rescue project in the works. One of our volunteers found this little guy and his two siblings seeking shelter on the side of the…
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