Hi everyone.
As the simmer of summer cools down, we heat up again in the garden for
our FALL SEASON which began September 1st
and concludes 11/20. We are still
harvesting many summer veggies with a full plate of fall favorites planned and
planted to include: Baby lettuce mix,
Beans, Beets, Butternut squash, Carrots, Collards, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Grapes,
Herbs (lots of basil!), Kale, Peanuts, Peppers, Romaine, Radishes, Spinach,
Sweet potatoes (5 beds full!), Swiss chard, Tomatoes, Turnips, Yellow squash,
and Zucchini!
We are now accepting fall memberships! To be a member of the
garden, you simply pay a one-time fee of $10 per family for the entire fall
season and commit to work only 1 hour per week (or 4 hours per month) for a
share of the day’s harvest. Our garden
work days are Tues/Thurs 5:30 – 7:30 pm and Saturday 9-noon. No green thumb
required…all instructions and tools provided.
Kidz Thyme is on Thursday nights! (6-7pm) which is an hour of supervised
garden fun for our Jr. Gardeners! Learn
more by vising our blog at www.thegardenofconcord.blogspot.com. “LIKE”
The Garden of Concord on Facebook!
The garden has been filled with many blessings over the past few
months as we have engaged in working and taking care of God’s creation along
with sharing His love to many. We
received 6 new family memberships over the summer bringing our total family
membership to 52 (9 Garden Angels, 27 Active, 2 Interns).
Our Summer Series “Cooking, Canning, and Planning with the Garden of
Concord” concluded with a highly informative and inspiring nutrition class that
has planted much excitement among our garden members. Plans are under way to have a successive 6
week (6 or less peeps) nutritional group to “weigh in” (w/o scales) their
concerns, successes, and questions on their diet plan as led by Traci
Phillips. Also we are working on an
extended summer series for next year in which Traci will go into more details
over a trio of workshops of how to better take care of the bodies that God
blessed us with by enlightening us on how our bodies react to the foods we eat
and tips on ways to eat that is not only healthy, but will glorify God in the
process.
Our annual “Tomato Sandwich Supper” and “Harvest Dinner” were both
filled with God’s goodness of fantastic food and fellowship (and music by the
Galloways and friends!). Thank you
everyone for your donations of food and time as well as gifts to the garden.
As we say so long to summer, we also bid farewell to our
chickens. It was decided that they would
be much happier with the Fiorello family in which they can free range and
frolic daily. While we will miss their
daily chatter, we look forward to building new beds in their fenced area and
creating a shade house to grow spring plantings in the summer. How great it will be to have fresh lettuce
and spinach with our tomatoes!
“Tasty Tuesdays” this past Tuesday was terrific with new several new
garden friends joining us! Our next "Tasty Tuesday"is on
October 2nd during garden hours.
This special day happens on the first Tuesday of each month for folks
wanting to “Taste and see that the Lord is good”! (Psalm 34:8) There are fliers around town inviting anyone
wanting to try out the garden for a night and receive some free
vegetables. Invite your friends and
family!
Many garden blessing to all of you and we look forward to hopefully
sharing some pizza next month baked in
our new pizza brick oven!
It WILL be good!
-Donna Poe
Garden Coordinator
