Edible Acres Gift Cards

Great last minute gift... 
Do you have loved ones who enjoy eating food?  
Perhaps they even enjoy growing their own super healthy food in their own backyard?  
Do you like the idea of supporting a local business that uses recycled and repurposed materials, beyond organic practices and strives to get as many long lived hardy, edible plants into the community as possible?  

Heres an idea... Get your loved ones gift certificates to Edible Acres!  Treat them to the gift of growing their own hardy, useful, edible, perennial plants or mushroom logs.  Or maybe they'll want to use the card to get design or consultation services on their site!  They can redeem it as they please, and your investment goes directly to a tiny, local business operating on a shoe string.  Win WIN!

Support your local permaculture nursery and get a gift that can truly keep on giving!

You can buy through the website, or feel free to call 607.342.4953 or email seandembrosky@gmail.com today to make arrangements that work for you!

Unique, beautiful gift cards hand made by Sasha!  Each one hand made.

Hand made and ready for you to fill out with your details!

Thanks so much for your interest in what we do!  Happy Holidays and happy planting!

Fall Propagation Workshop at CCE - Tues Oct 13th 6:30

Fall Propagation of Fruit and Nut Trees
Tuesday October 13, 6:30-8:30 pm
CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue Ithaca
Cost: $5-$10 sliding scale

Start planning your edible food forest this fall! Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres will demonstrate techniques for propagating edible tree species, such as stratifying seeds of a variety of fruit and nut trees and striking cuttings from fruit bushes. Ripe paw paws from Cornell's orchard will be available to taste, and participants will learn how to propagate their own paw paw trees from the seeds they take home. Participants will also learn to make cuttings of currant and jostaberry bushes and to propagate nut trees such as hazelnut from seed, and can also take home these propagation materials for their own gardens and homesteads.

Please register in advance so we have enough supplies for all participants. Click here to register online. You can also call 272-2292 to register by phone, or email Chrys Gardener to register by email. For more information go to ccetompkins.org/events

Plant Sale and Open House - This Sunday 8/30 10am to 4pm

Edible Acres is happy to announce a late summer open house and plant sale / shiitake log sale.  We still have a ton of potted plants that are really hoping to find their forever homes as we move closer to fall.  Come on out to scoop up some great Elderberries, Currants, Grapes, Carpathian Walnuts, Hazelnuts, perennial veggies and herbs/medicines and a lot more.  At this time of year we just want to find homes for things so come with your haggle jacket on and make some great deals happen for yourself!

Our gardens and nursery production beds will be open for wandering and exploring.  Depending on how many people come and how busy we are, there can be great opportunities to ask questions, get ideas, and share notes.  

Lastly, please remember as we move into fall that Edible Acres is proud to offer consultation / design / support in your goals of making the place you live as edible as possible!  Please let us know how we can help!

2nd Annual Finger Lakes Permaculture Tour! - Sat. Aug 22!

Open up your Saturday the 22nd for a day full of amazing projects, farms, and meeting great people involved in permaculture work in our area!  Edible Acres will be offering guided tours and and open house from 1pm to 4pm, and there are many other amazing sites to fit in for the day, with a fun reception at the Good Life Farm at 5pm!  Details available here...

http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/permaculture-tour/

We hope to see you!  We'll have potted plants available as well as shiitake mushroom logs ready to fruit available for sale to help you on your own path.

Plant Sale - This Sunday (6/28) 10am - 4pm! - Fruit tasting too!

Come out this Sunday from 10am to 4pm to Edible Acres to see a permaculture food forest in mid-summer swing.  Currants, early raspberries, jostaberries, sweet cicely seeds, serviceberry and lots more are ripening up and providing perennial abundance.  Interesting flavors, medicinals, and more are all showing their colors right now...  Come sample some of the amazing things you can grow in your own garden and pick up some mid-season plants to get things going!  Our plants are hoping to find their forever homes as we get deeper into summer, so come on out and see what can fit where you live!

Plant Sale and Walking/Tasting Tour - This Sunday 5/31!

Please join us at Edible Acres this upcoming Sunday, May 31st from 10am to 4pm to pick up some of your favorite new plants and have a chance to see a highly diverse, resilient and densely planted perennial food and medicine system in action.

We'll have tons of Elderberries, Currants, Jostaberries, Cranberries, a wide selection of perennial vegetables, hardy and useful trees and much more available.  All potted in our home made, ethical mix of locally sourced compost materials, waste wood chips and home made biochar.  You get an ecosystem in your pot!

We'd love to have you wander the demonstration gardens, ask tons of questions, and get a chance to taste some of the interesting perennial veggies and snacks available this early in the growing season.

Please come on out, support your local permaculture nursery and head home with some amazing new plants to grow and learn about!

9408 Congress Street Extension, Trumansburg, NY:

https://goo.gl/maps/wZwdm

Plant Sale Sunday May 3rd 11-4 - Downtown Ithaca

Here's a great chance to pick up some plants and mushroom logs this upcoming Sunday, May 3rd, at Press Bay Alley, downtown Ithaca!  The Bramble Collective is holding and Herb Day celebration and Edible Acres, Twisted Tree, and a number of other vendors will be there with great herbal plants, edibles, and other goodies for your gardens!  Come check it out and support your local nurseries and apothecaries!

Event details are here:  Brambles Facebook Event Page
 

1st Plant Sale - Sunday 4/26 10-4

Come on out for the first open house and plant sale of the 2015 season!  This Sunday we'll be open from 10-4 for people to wander around and see our perennial food production systems, our shiitake production yard (should have HUGE flush of mushrooms on Sunday, possible U-Pick potential so bring a bag if you want shiitakes!) and more.  Shiitake logs will be available for sale as well so you can grow your own

You can pick up bareroot trees at low prices before we have to pot them up for summer sales, see a number of new garden spaces, and check out our new selections of:
- Cranberries
- Blueberries
- Sea Buckthorn
- Nothern Pecan
- Improved Hazels
- New Perennial Veggies and Medicines
- Much more!

Come out this Sunday from 10-4 and see whats new for the 2015 Edible Acres season, and pick up new things to make your acres more edible too!

9408 Congress Street Extension, Trumansburg

Plant Propagation 101 - Workshop Saturday April 18th!

Winter is moving out, spring is coming in!  Celebrate the start of the 2015 growing season by coming to Edible Acres first educational event of the season!

Plant Propagation 101

Join Sean in an in-depth workshop to learn how to:
- Divide perennial vegetable plants
- Dig up runners of fruiting plants 
- Transplant successfully and efficiently
- Pot up plants for later planting and
- Proper care for your freshly installed garden.  

You'll come away with a broad spectrum of tools and approaches to improve the health of your garden and give you great results this spring.  
On top of that, you'll come away with some free plants to grow out at home!  Participants can choose from 2-3 plants of Bee Balm, Mints, Raspberry, Strawberry, Walking Onion and more (depending on availability and interest), a $20-$30 value for free for attending!

When: Saturday, April 18th 12pm-4pm
Where: Edible Acres (https://goo.gl/maps/Slw9i)
Cost: $40 per person - you must register on-line below in advance as space is limited

  Carpooling STRONGLY encouraged and any vehicle coming with 3 or more people in it will be gifted the drivers choice of bareroot Mulberry, False Indigo Bush, Red Alder or improved White Oak seedling tree!!!  (Same if you ride your bike up!) Pack those cars and grow more trees!  Grow gardens not gas profits!
 CLICK HERE to connect to a free web service to facilitate carpooling (custom setup for this event)
   - Contact Us for assistance in finding a ride / connecting with people

Register

Seeking Interesting Plants...

As the 2015 growing season slowly but surely comes on, we're looking for new and interesting plants to bring into the Edible Acres fold.  Although we enjoy supporting other nurseries far and wide, we're always looking to both save money and keep things as local as possible.  To that end... here is a call for:

Interesting perennial / edible / medicinal plants and seeds from the Finger Lakes community!

We'd love to  hear from you if you've got an amazing rhubarb plant, a cultivar black currant that makes great fruit, a sunchoke variety thats been on your land since you got there, etc, etc.  You get the idea.  Trade and/or plant credit through Edible Acres is available for these plants, and your unique and special perennial plant can then be expanded and shared far and wide into our community.  Win win!  

Please reach out and let us know what you've got, we're excited to see it and work with new plants this season!