Dec 1 - Dec 7, 2014 CVG Progress and Upcoming Opportunities

Last week's 25 lbs of harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 25 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 3,173 lbs

This Week's Organized Work Opportunities:

Monday Dec 8:  8:30 am - 9:30 am -- Prepare frost covers for possible light freeze this week and other garden maintenance

Tuesday Dec 9:  10:00 am - 12:30 pm -- Harvest for Salvation Army and deliver, garden maintenance, secure frost covers if necessary

Thursday Dec 10:  8:00 am - 9:30 am -- Harvest for Collierville Food Pantry and deliver

* Looking for any hotel sized toiletries, toothbrushes, kid's jackets and socks, new kid's underwear (all kid sizes, gender). We'll send on anything we receive with our produce donation to the Salvation Army on an ongoing basis.... So clear your shelves/drawers/closets!
Wish List for the Garden/Opportunities easily done on your own time:

*  Yard bags of pine needles for the cinderblock walkways
*  Clean, sharpen, and oil the garden tools located in the shed in the compost area
*  Pick up Starbucks (on Poplar) coffee grounds a couple of times per week (mid morning after breakfast rush or early afternoon after lunch rush) for composting
*  Old bird feeders
*  Bat house / Robin nest platforms/Bird bath
*  Meal worms for bluebirds

Garden Maintenance To Do List:

* Set aside pine needle mulch on zinnia beds, fill with promix, and top back with the pine needles
* Pull comfrey seedlings around beets in plot 1
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds, plot 3 along fence line

Last week's Work Progress:

On Thursday, Arlene, Teresa, and Stephanie harvested 25 lbs of mustard greens, turnips, collard greens, napa cabbage and radishes. Stephanie delivered to the Food Pantry.

On Saturday, despite the muddy conditions, Twila, Arlene, Carl, and Stephanie assisted 11 hard-working Schilling Farms Middle School Beta Club students while they weeded in the wooden raised beds of plots 1 and 4, moved compost from the barrel composters to plot 5, added promix to some cinderblock holes in plots 2 and 5, added promix to plot 4 wooden raised beds, planted garlic in plot 4, started new compost in the barrels with oak leaves and comfrey leaves, moved about half of the freshly delivered promix pile (Thanks Jim Gafford!!) from the parking lot into the garden, and donated lots of toiletries that will be delivered to the Salvation Army this week. Kathy continued weeding the plot 4.