It's almost spring, and we're back!

We're deep into planning the Community Garden this year.

The first, second, and third graders at the Kilmarnock Montessori School are helping this year by growing our starts and coming to the garden to help plant, weed, and learn about gardening and community service.

The Northern Neck Food Bank has done an amazing job at securing produce to distribute to pantries in the Northern Neck.  Our little bit is just a drop in the bucket, so this year we will be donating the produce we grow directly to the White Stone Baptist Food Pantry.

Please stop by and say hi! As always if you want or need produce, come weed for a bit and we'll send you home with some.

Happy Growing!

Digging in for the Winter

It has been a wonderful year at the Community Garden. The Garden has been put to bed for the winter.  Look for a Thank You in the Rapphannock Record to all of the people who donated time and supplies to the garden.  We are already planning for next year and have some fun ideas in store!  We'll keep you posted.

The Garden doesn't grow only vegetables....

This week we found some baby bunnies!  I know, it shouldn't be exciting because they'll probably eat all our fall seedlings...but they are quite cute.  Here is a picture of one of them.  It IS a donation garden isn't it?!?

MORE IMPORTANT NEWS!
This week we donated 160 pounds of produce to the Northern Neck Food Bank.  This went to serve 75 families in Westmoreland.  Please keep the community donations coming! We had over 50 pounds donated to our red bin. 
Happy Growing!

Our Red Bin is Working!

Thank you so much to those of you who donated your extra garden produce to our "red bin!"  Here is a picture of what we received this week. Keep it comin'!

Donation Totals

Update:  The Bay Center Community Garden has so far this year donated just over 200 lbs of produce to the Northern Neck Food Bank!

Bounty

The Garden is really starting to produce.  Last week Carolyn and Kirsten took over 20 lbs of produce to the Food Bank. Here is a picture of the squash, turnips, kale, swiss chard, tat soi, and cucumbers we picked.  

Soon we will be inundated with tomatos!

And our cucumber and squash plants are quite vigorous!



Beautiful Garden

The Garden is beautiful after the last two days of steady rain.  On Saturday we made our third donation of nearly 10 lbs (that's a lot when its all greens!)  of produce to the Northern Neck Food Bank.  Our fridge (Thank you Donna!) is installed and we now have storage space for produce.  If you are a gardener with extra produce shoot us an email at baycentergarden@gmail.com and we'll tell you how to get the veggies to us so we can add them to our Saturday donations.
Garden Pictures Coming Soon!