Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on May 15th, 2009
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer Today was awesome! About a hundred people participated in the celebration planting day this morning, including a group of 20 4- and 5-year-old students from New Directions Daycare. It was great fun watching the children get in the dirt and plant cabbages, bell peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. It comes so natural to children – [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on May 7th, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer In November 2007 the Oxford University Press announced locavore as the Word of the Year. No, until recently I had never heard of it either. But now it seems that I keep hearing, and reading, the word ‘locavore’ more and more often. What is a locavore? One definition from Dictionary.com: [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Apr 30th, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer Planting day has been scheduled! If you’d like to come witness the planting of the Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, mark your calendars for Thursday, May 14 from 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. It promises to be a fun event, with local schoolchildren stopping by to help plant as [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Apr 23rd, 2009
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer I went to a local store at the weekend with my neighbor, Susan, who was buying a few plants for her own home vegetable garden. She bought a cool looking yellow tomato, a pepper, and a cucumber, and she already has some squash at home that she started from seeds [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Apr 16th, 2009
by Janine Butler, Garden volunteer You may have already heard some of the buzz about an exciting new project here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden — the plan is to plant a Community Kitchen Garden and grow 10,000 pounds of fresh produce this growing season, with all the produce from this garden being donated to [...]
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