Fostering Farmers

06/09/2026

4 beds planted at my kids summer camp/nature school. 🍅🍆🫑🥒 zucchini herbs and 1 Brussels sprout plant because someone gave it to me so why not!

06/06/2026

Plant guilt is just as silent as Mom guilt. No one is actually telling you that you’re doing a bad job but you have these quiet observers judging you. I will get the last of our seedlings in the ground within the next 48 hours - I promise! To reduce my plant guilt and because they are silently begging!

05/31/2026

4 beds planted! Lots of 🍅🍆🫑 with a few 🥒 & zucchini. Next up, weeding, trellising and planting the 5th bed. Also making garden gates. Getting 3 beds planted at my kids school garden. Teaching for 8 weeks about gardening. Oh and continue working on the acreage farm. I need a clone 🙃

05/23/2026

1 volunteer came out for 2 hours on this overcast, drizzly morning. We spread enough woodchips to make one or two parking spots 💪 Yes this would be easier and quicker with a machine but where’s the fun in that?! Because we didn’t use fossil fuels, we got a good workout in, were able to talk, and had a beautiful morning listening to the bird singing and the light rainfall. Building community one shovel full of woodchips at a time.

05/20/2026

Can't believe this article is almost 10 years old. Give it a read if you want to learn more about my background.

University of Delaware alumna Kristin Ward Hock always knew that she wanted to be a farmer but there was just one problem – she knew nothing about farming and didn’t know anyone to ask.

05/18/2026

May 17, 2026 - A day in Fostering Farmer’s history! Our first plants planted 💪🌱 95° temps 🥵 3 adults, 5 kids, 24 posts pounded, 12 eggplant, 18 peppers, 32 tomatoes, and a whole lotta herbs. While we are still figuring things out at the one acre leased farmland, we are renting 5 plots in the community garden to get us going. Looking forward to our first harvest 🍅🍆🫑

05/08/2026

Farmers are the coolest people on the Planet. So grateful for our CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Agricultural Farmer Training) Community and the farm tours offered. To learn from each other, support each other, and remind each other of the importance of this hungry work.

05/03/2026

What a fun Saturday at Blue Claws Stadium! Thanks everyone who came out to support our fundraiser and had a great time! My kids are already asking when are we going back for another game!

04/29/2026

Tonight I spoke at the Middletown Lions Club meeting. I was invited by Ms Bev, my childhood Sunday school teacher. Her most impactful teaching was to “plant a mustard seed, even though it’s the tiniest seed, it has the greatest impact.”

I don’t know how I’m going to get Fostering Farmers to reach our full mission. But I have faith we will get there. Because I continue to plant tiny mustard seeds whenever and wherever I can. And eventually, one tiny mustard seed will get to the right person and will positively impact the rest of our journey 🌱

04/25/2026

Yesterday we hosted our first corporate volunteers from and it was so much fun! I wasn’t sure if these office folks would know how to use a shovel but they all brought their A Game and were determined to help us remove the left over roots. This will make working this plot of land so much easier and smoother. Grateful for these 8 hard working folks putting in 16 hours of hard work 💪