Tomato Heaven!

Hi everyone.   

This past month has been all about tomatoes and the abundant harvests that God has blessed us with this year.  Despite the crazy high temps earlier in the month, the drenching rains that followed, and the hurricane force winds the other day, our tomato harvest has been amazing and we praise God for every fruit picked!

At this writing, we are looking forward to the 4^th Annual Tomato Sandwich Supper this evening (7/27) as we enjoy our favorite summer sandwich filled with sliced Brandwines and Cherokee Purples dressed with some Duke mayo and pesto!  Thank you in advance for all those that will be joining us tonight to share in God’s Goodness!

We are also looking forward to the 2^nd part of this year’s summer series “Cooking, Canning, and Planning with the Garden of Concord” as we jam together tomorrow (7/28) with a canning class led by Kristin Hicks of “Put it Up-Pittsboro”.  Kristin was actually my soil science teacher last year and in her free time, enjoys canning a variety of fruits, veggies, and nuts and sells at farmer’s markets and co-ops.  Thank you again in advance for those of you that join us tomorrow.

The third and final part of our summer series will be on Saturday, August 11^th from 2-4pm led by garden member, Traci Phillips, as she helps us “plan” our meals and learn more about wellness and nutrition (especially for our kidz!).  Also later in the month on Friday, August 24^th is our always much anticipated “Harvest Celebration Dinner” as we share together with our community, God’s continued blessings of our summer harvests. 

We continue “Tasty Tuesdays” on the first Tuesday of every month as we invite anyone interested in “trying out” the garden for an evening and/or anyone wanting to share in our harvest.   The kidz have enjoyed  “Water Fun Nights” every Tuesday along with “Kidz Thyme” on Thursdays.   Thank you to the leaders and parents that have helped make both of these events so rewarding (and refreshing) to our Jr. Gardeners!

We continually praise God for His gift of The Garden of Concord as he teaches and enables us to work and take care of His creation by growing good food, friendships, and sharing His love with many!  Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and support of our garden! 

It WILL be good!

-Donna Poe

Garden Coordinator

Plenty of PIZZA Plantings Growing in the Garden!

(7/3/12) **Sorry this posting is late!

Hi everyone.  As we move into the heat of the summer, our garden is on fire with many pizza plantings to include plenty of peppers, tons of tomatoes, and the beginning of construction for our brick pizza oven!  We enjoyed a pizza preview at our Pizza Cooking Class this past month as Debbie Cook shared her Pampered Chef products and recipes in creating/serving many different (delicious!) pizzas using our garden goodies for our guests.  Thank you everyone for your appetites and support as we raised over $120 from individual donations along with a percentage of Pampered Chef sales to be applied towards the building of the brick oven by Kyle Gault and the earning of his Eagle badge.

Our “Cooking, Planning, and Canning with the Garden of Concord” summer series continues this month with a canning class scheduled for Saturday, 7/28 from 2-4pm.  More info to be processed soon!  Also this month, we look forward to tasting that first ripened tomato sandwiched in between some Duke mayo (and a little pesto:) at our Tomato Sandwich Supper on Friday, 7/27 at 6pm!  MMMMMMM! 

We began “Tasty Tuesdays” last month and will continue the first Tuesday of each continuing month as we share our garden with the community while encouraging them to “Taste and see that the Lord is good!” (Psalm 34:8)   Please invite your friends and neighbors (including yourself!) to visit the garden and enjoy some of God’s abundance..for free!  We have also begun our “Water Nights” on Tuesdays to help kool the Kidz followed by a thyme of continued fun on Thursday nightz with “Kidz Thyme”!

Thank you everyone for your prayers and support of our garden.  It WILL be good!

-Donna Poe

Garden Coordinator