by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden is now shut down for the winter. Volunteers in the garden produced 9,913 pounds of high quality produce for FeedMore’s Community Kitchen. Weight distribution by type: Tomatoes – 5,594.5 lbs. Zucchini/ yellow squash – 3,035.5 lbs. Cauliflower – 460 [...]
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by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You probably know that Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has hundreds of volunteers, who work thousands of hours each year, all over the Garden. The Garden simply would not be what it is without the dedication and time our volunteers put in. But did you [...]
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by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Note: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden recently hired Brian Vick as our Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator. Brian had been a a volunteer at the Community Kitchen Garden since early spring. He will be helping a team of volunteers from HandsOn Greater Richmond, weed, water [...]
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By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer Sadly, this will be the last edition of blog posts about the Community Kitchen Garden for this growing season. We have harvested the last of the fall crops, and the vegetable garden is being put to bed until next spring. Last week we delivered the remaining cabbages, cauliflower’s, mustard greens [...]
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By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer Yes, you read that correctly. The heat of summer may only just be over, and many people are looking forward to the cooler weather of fall, but smart gardeners are already thinking about spring! Here at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden vegetable garden we are planning ahead so that next [...]
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By Janine Butler, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden volunteer Well, the pools are closed for the year and the kids are back in school; I guess that means that summer is officially over! But nobody informed the vegetable garden – we continue to harvest vegetables every week! However, as the weather begins to cool down, we [...]
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by Janine Butler, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden volunteer We are two-thirds of the way to our goal of donating 10,000 pounds of vegetables to FeedMore! (FeedMore is the umbrella organization for the Central Virginia FoodBank and Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia.) On Monday, Karen Clowers, horticulture coordinator at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, delivered a [...]
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by Janine Butler, garden volunteer I have been working in the vegetable garden at Lewis Ginter for several months now; planting the vegetables, weeding and mulching, and harvesting along with many other volunteers. So I am pleased to bring you this ‘special report’ and show you more about what happens to the vegetables once they [...]
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Community Kitchen Garden: Home Demo Garden by Janine Butler, garden volunteer This week we spent some time tending the home demo garden. This is a small raised bed, approximately 4’ by 12’ that shows just how much home gardeners could grow in their own back yard, in a small area. It’s jam-packed with veggies [...]
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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 [...]
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