What a wonderful week!
We have 1/3 of the fall garden planted ,and yes its real early, but the purplehull peas had played out. We got a much needed soaking rain within an hour of when we planted early Monday morning and again after we planted Monday evening. Aint God good!
And we have received $400 total in donations from five of our garden angel volunteers, with another two donations total $150 pledged. So we have $439.39 in da bank and $150 in da mail and two churches considering donations. I am in the process of spending about $100 on the fall garden and will report that number in a week or two. That should just about cover the rest of this year and most of next year. While we could spend a bunch of money making the garden wire-wood-rock sparkling clean like the beautiful Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown, we would only be helping ourselves and not producing any more food for the needy.
See http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=823d178b88115a1b&sid=1SbtnDli1cU
And Saturday afternoon August 13the Collierville Christian Church Boy Scout Troop led by Robert Sanchez did an amazing job of cleaning out the plot 2 pea patch, tightening the fence and securing it with plastic ties, and cleaning up the compost area! These young men work hard, do team work, do excellent work, learn quickly, and are well led!!! Bravo Zulu!!!
We and our sister PAR garden at Davies Plantation were in the CA:
and we were interviewed with pictures taken Monday afternoon by the Collierville Independent newspaper. Ya has to do the PR!
Thursday morning Aug 9 Selby, Jan, and I picked 14 lbs of peas, 2 pounds of jalopeeno peppers, 16 lbs maters, and 47 lbs of lopes and took to the local Food Pantry. Day's total: 79 lbs.
Satiddy morning Aug 11 I picked 17 lbs of lopes, 1 lb eggplant fruits, 9 lbs of maters, and 13 lbs of peas, which I delivered to 200 and 204 South St. Mrs Johnson in 202 was in the hospital. Day's total 40 lbs.
Monday morning Aug 13, Jan Dickey and Selby Horton planted 4 of the the raised beds in plot 4 in pak choy, Shogun turnips, and curly leaf mustard greens.
Monday afternoon Aug 13 Bob Hathaway and I planted all of plot 2 in purpletop turnips. We picked and gave to Ellen Goodman 7 lbs of lopes and maters.
<<Note: I am scheduled to be out of town on business Sunday thru Friday next week and the new seeds NEED TO BE KEPT DAMP!!!>> We have a wand on the front water system and a pistil wand on the rear water system - replaced the wild spraying long wand.
3,073 lbs YTD + 79 + 40 + 7 = 3,199 lbs YTD!!!!!!!! Yea!!!!!!!!!!
Connie and Laura continue to take zinnias to Page Robbins and Baptist Trinity Hospice.
Thursday morning 630 we will pick peas and maters and jalapeno peppers and cantaloupes if any is reddy.
Mr Billy Dodson whom we take produce to sometimes on Sunflower St passed last week. He had been on three-times-weekly dialysis for a long time. He was a smiling face at everyone of his grandson's baseball games and practices. We'll miss him.
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and another about Urban Farms
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Aint God good!
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