Three Part Harmony Farm

This is what it looks like to reconnect with the land. 🌱 This year, we introduced a Community Service Learning experience to the #BWIFSummit in partnership with Three Part Harmony Farm (@3phfarm ) — a non-profit organization dedicated to a just and equitable food system through the cultivation and distribution of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. After the first two Summit days of panels, conversation, and workshops, this was our chance to step outside, slow down, and reconnect with the land and each other. Being on the farm brought us back to where food really begins — the people, the soil, and the care it takes to grow it. Thank you to everyone who signed up, showed up, and fully leaned into this experience. Thank you so much to our sponsor @nimanranch & to Three Part Harmony Farm for welcoming us and allowing us to be a part of the work you do every day. 🤎 📸: @chi_chi.ari

Check out @underdogthedj at tomorrow’s Open House, 1-3pm! ✨ Rooted in house, disco, afrobeats, and global rhythms, DJ Underdog weaves diasporic frequencies that connect land, spirit, and movement. Expect a soulful, sun-drenched set designed for community, reflection, and joy in nature. ✨🌱🪘 Based in DC, Underdog is a graphic designer, educator, farmer, tennis coach 🎾, and radio host on WPFW 89.3 FM. Graphic design by @underdogthedj

… during Three Part Harmony Farm’s Open House at 3122 4th St NE. 🧑🏾‍🌾✨ Ruth will be sharing how to plant dahlias! No prior experience is required. She started growing dahlias in 2021 and has been hooked ever since. She’s learned from trial and error that they take some work but are worth it. They make people so happy! Judy Walsh-Mellet will be sharing how to create nutrient rich soil for your home gardens & tips about composting! She grew up gardening with her Dad and sisters in Upstate New York. She has tended to a garden in Mount Rainier for over 30 years and currently hosts Still Place: An Urban Retreat. 🪴🪏

Hello everyone, we hope you’ve been enjoying spring! We’d like to invite you to our spring open house on Saturday, April 25th from 1-3pm 💐 🌱 🎨 🧘🏾‍♀️

Great minds think alike: daikon twins go deep in the soil at Three Part Harmony (taken during last year's fall festival by @tkgphoto ) Two quick announcements: 1- CSA sign ups moved to the online Grownby app this year. Yep: we joined the farmer co-op run on-line platform. Click on the link to sign up: /farms/three-part-harmony 2 - Volunteering has started! Calling all past volunteers and workshares to join as early as this weekend. New volunteers sign up for an orientation session on April 3, 4, 17 or 18. Email 3phfarmvolunteers at gmail.com for the sign up sheet and info. Can't make the April orientation dates but want to join us this season? Email to let us know you are interested, and when the May dates are chosen you will be the first to know.

Visit our Urban Garden Guide to get involved and learn more about the gardens near you! LINK IN OUR BIO!! 📌🌾 The ground may be cold, but the work never stops. Winter is when urban farms plan, repair, teach, and imagine—laying the foundation for the seasons ahead. In classrooms, greenhouses, and neighborhood plots, these growers are cultivating more than crops. They’re cultivating connection. #EdibleDC #UrbanFarms #FoodJustice #WinterGrowing #LocalFoodSystems

Celebrating a season. It’s never too late to take time to be grateful, to feel celebrated, to dwell on good times and memories. 2025: A season of community, celebration and service I'm taking a pause from the winter break to remember the amazing fall festival with photos from @tkgphoto . I want to share each and every one, but I'll settle with these for now. You all brought the love, joy, gratitude, and expressions of “reason for being” that day! The outpouring of support and love was a spiritual uplifting, exercise in humility, and thankful reminder of how much our presence in the neighborhood is an essential part of your families’ lives. It was also an affirmation of how many of you believe in the dream, too. It’s always hard to say “thank you” with as much enthusiasm and as emphatically as I feel it deep in my soul. Please know that your love is well received and I thank you all for being part of our farm-ily, from the bottom of my heart. Highlights from the January E-Newsletter, a 2025 re-cap (check your inboxes for the full message): Harvest Total: 12,549 pounds! Produce Donated: 2,115 pounds! Sliding Scale CSA: 81 households served each week, 2,106 CSA shares distributed Community Engagement: 99 work days from April – November -  16 work shares -  34 volunteers -  1 volunteer group (the staff from Common Good City Farm – thank you!!) - 2 annual events Financial Contributions from Donors: 43 percent of the organization’s income came from individual donors or grants (an almost 50/50 split). - Thank you to the National Black Food & Justice Alliance and the Diverse City Fund, which together made up 96% of the grant contributions. Thank you as well to Future Harvest’s “Feed the Need” program. - The generous contributions from 56 individual donors matched the grant income. Partners: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Annie's Ace Hardware, The Capital Market, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House (DC), Thrive DC, and farm partners Spice Creek, root to plate, Kuhn Orchard, Good Fortune Farm, Whitt's Produce Farm. Much love and solidarity to all of the growers in and around DC who beautify our city and feed our neighbors! We all play a part.

This Saturday, November 15 from 10 am - 2 pm we continue the time honored tradition at our fall open house: seed saving! This year a special guest, Xavier Brown @soilful city will bring a cotton gin to extract seeds from the Arkansas Green Lint that we grew for @southernexposureseedexchange . We will also shell dry beans “Kebarika” for @ujamaafarms collective. And of course, popping garlic cloves like always! Please RSVP /events

Countdown to the 11th Annual Fall Open House at Three Part Harmony Farm: We're just a few days away from Saturday, November 15. Please come see us! The event starts at 10 am, music and most activities start at 11. RSVP at threepartharmonyfarm.org/events

Fall volunteer dates are posted now through the end of the year. Click on the link in the bio for the google form. We could surely use your help cleaning up the farm before winter, as well as some gleaning and weeding.

Sweet sugar baby! The view from my car this week as I’ve been bringing watermelons to FreshFarm pop up food hub, THEARC free Friday food distribution, the Saturday csa pick up, and next week to the DC curbfest for political prisoners. These seeds are from @ujamaafarms . We are supposed to be saving seeds from them but so farm Farmer Ayden is the one who has been laboriously scooping out about 246 seeds per watermelon and I’m still at zero. Gotta catch up to Ayden! This morning I had to find my sweater. A reminder that fall volunteer days are around the corner, starting next Saturday (labor day weekend). Sign up via the google form in the link. Message me if you can’t find the form. Don’t let watermelon season pass you by! Stop by on Saturday (we are in the loading dock at Annie’s Ace in Edgewood) for one of the final weeks of summer.

Fall CSA shares are on sale now (click on the link in the bio). This week we are direct seeding fall roots, and the greenhouse is already halfway full. Considering the amount of heat and humidity we still have, it’s kind of unreal to think about the fall Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) season that starts on September 6. Sept 6 - October 25 pick up between 9 am and 1 pm at the loading dock at Annie’s Ace in Brookland. When you fill out the form, you’ll receive an invoice for $315 for all of the produce shares during September and October. Fall is a special moment when late summer veggies (eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, tomatillos, and okra) meet fall greens, roots, winter squash and sweet potatoes. Are you a csa member already? Please comment what you love about our farm share so folks can hear it from someone other than me.