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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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We’re still truckin’ along in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. Although it’s now nearly a week into November, the broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower are not quite ready to harvest en masse. We harvested 26 pounds of beautiful broccoli and cabbage on October 31st, but [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The last Saturday in October, a group of seven Dominion associates worked at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. What started out as a shiver-inducing brisk morning quickly turned into t-shirt weather as the team cleared a large area to prep for the winter cover crop. The team also [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator That’s folksy talk referring to the fall vegetable garden. At Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden we have all the old tomato plants cleared, the stakes & cages stacked, a winter cover crop of annual rye and red clover sown, and we’re just a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator It was a gorgeous morning at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. We took a day off from pampering the cole crops, and applied our energy to the incremental removal of some of the hundreds of tomato plants. The process of preparing the garden [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden In what seems like one of the most unpredictable turn of events in the food movement, DC public schools are leading the way in kicking sugary milk and cereals off of their menu. While it seems like a no-brainer for health reasons, it is [...]
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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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