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by Amy Swanson Harvest heading to the pantry “Serendipitous”. That was what I was thinking as I walked home after working at theInterfaith Garden. With many experienced hands this morning, we were done with all the harvesting, cleaning, delivering and weeding well before 9:30am. So it gave a few of us time to shoot the breeze . . . → Read More: August 20th Garden Report Volunteers from Hancock, First Baptist, First Parish Harvest Produce in the garden's new cart Today’s cartload included: onions, garlic, radishes, cherry and regular tomatoes, red potatoes, basil, cucumbers, eggplant, crooked neck squash, yellow squash, eggs, peppers, flowers, parsley, and acorn squash. Over 45 pounds were picked and delivered. Included was almost 3 pounds of tomatoes, . . . → Read More: August 6th Garden Report by Mark Sandeen It would be hard to imagine better days for working in the garden than we’ve had the last couple of Saturdays. Cool, crisp air – Blue skies – and lots of friendly people. I thought you might be interested in how we are doing this year compared to last year at this . . . → Read More: Harvest Report by Barbara Munkres Blue sky and sunshine and a few low-lying clouds from the morning fog greeted us at the garden today. The breeze was cooler and drier than earlier this week. We appreciated that! Everything has grown, especially the tall asparagus fronds, which needed to be tied back. A bok choy bed was ready . . . → Read More: July 9th Garden Report by Janet Lane Despite pouring rain and loud thunderstorms at 7:30, Carla was in the garden by 8:00 and by 8:30 all of us had straggled in to harvest the abundance. Once all was picked, the peas sorted, and greens washed, by 9:00 some 24 pounds of produce were delivered to the food pantry (peas, . . . → Read More: June 25th Garden Report by Amy Swanson About 18 pounds of produce was delivered this morning to the pantry: herbs (dill, parsley, mint, thyme), chard, bok choy, beets, radishes, edible pods, oriental peapods, shelled peas, lettuce heads, looseleaf lettuce, and scallions. Carla also contributed 13 freshly laid eggs! It was fortunate that Omar came early to help Carla get . . . → Read More: June 18th Garden Report Eli & Peter Watering the garden Pilgrim, First Baptist and Redeemer sent volunteers to work this beautiful morning. In addition, we had extra hands from Hancock and St. Brigid’s, as well as Eli, a Boy Scout who has been working on a community service badge and regularly helping out. Carla . . . → Read More: June 4th Garden Report by Amy Swanson On May 24th seven people signed up to work in the interfaith garden. We continued hilling up the potatoes, weeding the small garden, and finished the spinach harvest. The spinach bed was then re-manured and fertilized and dug and raked over to prepare it to receive a second crop rotation. The kids . . . → Read More: May 24th Garden Report by Janet Kern Weather – cold and wet ; enough said. Nevertheless we had six volunteers from Temple Emunah and Church of Our Redeemer. Carla gave a tour of the gardens for the new volunteers, who were amazed that the garden had already yielded spinach, rhubarb and chard for the Food Pantry. Using an old . . . → Read More: May 17th Garden Report by Barbara Munkres On this cloudy, cool day volunteers from Hancock and Pilgrim joined to cultivate and weed at the garden. In addition, more beans were planted in rows where there were gaps in the young seedlings. Lettuce Strawberries are looking great! Two types of squash, watermelon and . . . → Read More: May 14th Garden Report |
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