Community Kitchen Garden: First Harvest!

Community Kitchen Garden: First Harvest!
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer
The volunteers and staff continue to work hard in the vegetable garden; weeding, mulching, feeding, watering and what not, and finally we are starting to reap the rewards!
Last week the first harvest was picked and delivered to Central Virginia Foodbank/ FeedMore, the recipients of all the food [...]

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Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!

Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer
Do you know what I love about this volunteer gig? Every time I go to the garden I learn something new – this week was all about tomatoes (and yes, I say tom-ah-toe, not tom-ate-er).
Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture at Lewis Ginter asked [...]

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Community Kitchen Garden: Look What’s Growing!

Community Kitchen Garden:  Look What’s Growing! by Janine Butler, garden volunteer What a difference a couple of weeks can make!  Look at these pictures that were taken this morning:
The squash seeds that we planted a couple of weeks ago are doing great.  I can’t believe that they could grow so big in such [...]

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