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!

Our First Donation

This week has been very exciting in the garden.  Our plants are growing in leaps and bounds. This week we were able to harvest nearly 13 pounds of produce to donate to the Northern Neck Food Bank.  Also, soon we will have a fridge on the back porch of the Bay Center so gardeners with extra produce can add to our garden donation. 

Gutters!

The rain this weekend was very exciting.  It watered our seedlings, and our new strawberries and blackberries.  But it also filled up our new rain barrels!  This past Friday gutters were installed on our garden shed!

Also, we have established a schedule.  Someone will be at the BCCG every Thursday from 4-6, and the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month from 10-12 to help guide you through the work needed in the garden.  Of course feel free to come volunteer any time you have available.  There is a binder in the garden shed with notes about what has been done by previous volunteers.

Hope to see you soon!