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
