Victory Garden status Monday November 25, 2013

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Your volunteer work has paid out bountifully all year but especially this week. Val, Jane, Kathy, Arlene and I picked a pickup truck load of turnips and greens (266 lbs) and took to the Collierville Food Pantry on Thursday.

On Friday Stephanie, Matt, Ed, Ron, and Lisa McGee's Crosswinds Elementary School Roots and Shoots Club picked 645 lbs of turnips and greens and 42 lbs of mustard greens. This was two pickup truck loads which along with the pickup truck load from Germantown church of Christ were distributed in Thanksgiving distribution boxes for 250 families in the inner city. What a blessing we have!

Today Monday November 235, 2013, The Fayette Cares agency picked 34 lbs of collard greens and the last turnips 380 lbs. WOW! These will be distributed to needy families this week.

I plan, Lord willing, to pick the rest of the collards, rutabagas, and cabbiges for the Collierville Food Pantry the last Thursday before Christmas December 19.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  3,063 to date + 266 + 645 + 42 +34 + 380  = 4,430 lbs for 2013!  Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 11/12/2013 $576.05

A pome I wrote about picking greens and delivering boxes (actually they came to a church building and picked up the boxes but I dinna know that when I wrote da pome.)

It's beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving With every turnip we pull;
Take a look in the muddy rows with greens all in rows
Green leaves and purple turnips all aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving, Turnips in every box,
But the prettiest sight to see smiling faces that will be at each front door.

 See pix below:

gorgeous turnips and greens

ed and matt bagging

266 lbs to Food Pantry

Crosswinds Roots & Shoots Club

fell off the turnip truck

arlene and val

Kathy and Jane

100 box giveaway in Raleigh

Food Pantry truck was emptied in 15 minutes

Raleigh distribution

midtown distribution 150 boxes