6/3/14 Workday – Tuesday

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Hi everyone.  

Just a quick note to remind you that we will have work time at the garden this evening (as every Tuesday) from 5-7pm.  There’s a chance of a thunderstorm, as is often the case on summer evenings.  We can’t always send out an update as to whether the garden will be closed or not due to weather, as we often have to just show up to see what it’s like.  Last week, for instance, it was raining buckets at my work and I was sure the garden would be closed, but when I finally arrived around 6pm, there were barely a few raindrops falling, and it stopped altogether soon after that.  Thunderstorms and heavy rains will stop us, but a nice gentle rain can be pretty refreshing to work in.  🙂

We’ll largely be doing maintenance work tonight:  weeding, mulching potato beds, tying up tomatoes, beetle patrol.  We’ve finally gotten ahead of the potato beetles and we need to keep it that way.  They’re still being very persistent on the potatoes in the lower 40, but I feel confident we can take back that area, too.
 
We’ve not had a chance yet to make any significant donation to Western Wake Crisis Ministry yet this year, but there are signs that will be changing soon!  On Saturday, I saw the first tomatoes on the vines and spied a couple of squash!  Peas, beans and cukes are growing nicely, too.  In the meantime, if you’d like to make a donation to WWCM from your pantry, feel free to bring to the garden tonight or Saturday (or any workday) and we will be sure to donate it along with any produce we might have.  Specific needs they have right now are dried beans, pasta, pasta sauce, boxed mac and cheese, canned meats and canned soup.  (Note:  tuna is on sale at Kroger for just 2/$1 with your Kroger card!)
 
Hope to see many of you this evening!
 
Sandra

One response to “6/3/14 Workday – Tuesday”

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    comicskid

    Love this posting, Sandra!

    Some of the best memories I have of the garden include harvesting our first-ever crop of sweet potatoes – just as the skies opened up. Though there are pictures to prove how pathetic we looked by the end of the evening, the fun we had couldn’t possibly have been captured with a simple “click”.

    Like the skies that night, the garden “opens up” to each of us in different ways, on different days. So, I echo Sandra’s invitation: come on out, whenever you can, for as long as you can, in whatever capacity you are able.

    As for our imminent capacity to increase the yield brought to the WWCM, it’s great to remember that at the garden, not only do many hands make for lighter work, they also mean we can sow, grow, and harvest more successfully. When considering the burden those with “*food insecurity” face, every single leaf of lettuce represents the fact that one of over 21% of the CHILDREN in THIS STATE will not have to worry about where his or her next meal might come from.

    Some folks have been blessed to never know *food insecurity first-hand. Others are amazed to learn that hunger exists, unseen, within the walls of homes right here in Apex. There are also those among us that need no imagination to understand hunger; at some point they were, or are, part of one-in-five homes that know it all to well.

    The next time your tummy rumbles right before lunch, grin and bear it, knowing that whether you are food insecure, or helping to alleviate the insecurity for others…
    the garden is open to all!

    Peace,
    Kim

    *(“limited availability of adequate safe food” and the “uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods),

    Read more about local hunger here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/27/3060797/in-a-growing-state-a-growing-hunger.html#storylink=cpy

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