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 A festive feast to start the new year. A rite of spring at New Eden is the holding of the organizational meetings of the Chicken co-op and the community gardens. Old and new members have a chance to meet each other and the veterans get their first chance to welcome the newbies into New Eden community. One of the innovatoins this year at the community gardens is that each gardener is required to volunteer 6 hours for the benefit of the community by signing up for one of a lists of task forces. A sampling of task forces include: compost committee , berry planting brigade, tool and fence maintenance, compost tea posse, irrigation, food bank donation coordinator and bee keeper apprentice.  "Modernist" chicken coop from recycled materials FPC’s New Eden Collaborative grew by leaps and bounds 2010. Here are some of the highlights: The community gardens expanded to 41 plots plus several “teaching gardens” that demonstrated principles of Permaculture and No-till gardening. The New Eden Organic Chicken Co-op was born. This innovative program of 14 chicken share holders raising taking care of 16 chickens ( and briefly 2 ducks) has been a great success. New Eden educational outreach gave a spring and summer series of green living classes that included a NOFA (New England Organic Farming Association) organic garden workshop, and New Eden classes on mushroom farming, raising chickens, sheet mulching and more. New Eden is now home to a colony of honey bees and hopefully we will be able to harvest our first honey this year. The creation of First Parish’s outdoor earth oven and our first oven roasted pizza party.  New Eden gardens tucked in for the winter A bunch of wicked fun garden parties and amazing, no waste, locavore pot lucks co-sponsored by Transition Town Newburyport. Stay tuned for the 2011 plans for the New Eden Collaborative coming soon.  J T our master baker, brings out one of the best pizzas of the night After working on the oven through the summer, our cob oven is finally dry enough to be fired up to the 800 degrees . New Eden celebrated the winding down of the growing season with a cob oven pizza party. After a few rough starts, we finally where able to get the internal temperature up to, the infernal heights to make a truly crispy pizza. Charlotte Dion and her husband Ed Falis were the fabricators of a wide variety of delectable pizza pies. The tweaking of the baking fire became a group consult as JT Tierney and Michelle Moon both experienced with cooking in cob ovens got our pizza production in full swing.  The quickly disappearing scraps of our inaugural pizza. New Eden will be firing up the cob oven for a pizza and bread bake as part of New Eden’s 10-10-10 Global Work Party. Anyone who would like to have some bread baked in the oven are welcome to come over to First Parish Church from 1-3 on Sunday, October 10th. Our request is that if you come to bake bread, you bring an extra loaf that we may offer to the local food pantry. Saturday’s record turn out for a New Eden work party was an auspicious start to New Eden’s 2010 growing season!
 The girls getting to know each other. Our New Eden chicks were the guests of honor on their first foray outside. They seemed to have enjoyed themselves. I know that the young and the young at heart enjoyed playing with them.
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