Frost last week

A bit of frost singed our garden last week. Greenery was damaged but most fruit was saved.




Eggplant

Frosted peppers

Carrots

Harvest update

We have harvested 1911.5 lbs of produce with a value of $4778.75. Our biggest vegetable contributor to this total is onions. We've harvested 910.5 lbs so far!

July 13 harvest

We harvested 22.5 lbs of green peppers and 5.5 lbs of lettuce.
Our delivery totals to date are 158.5 lbs of produce valued at $396.25.

June 6 - our first harvest

Early this morning volunteers met and harvested 95.5 lbs of spinach and 35 lbs of radishes. Lots of the radishes were negatively impacted by herbivory but the spinach was superb. We're watering the garden now in preparation for the 34C heat.

Spinach

Radish 

A start to 2016

With garden plan and soil ready, we've begun our 2016 seeding. We've planted radish, spinach and lettuce seeds.

We're also very proud of volunteer David who has been honoured as the “Gardener of the Year” by the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society.

Gardener of the Year

2015 Harvest Total

Our final harvest total for 2015 was 2098.5 lbs of fresh produce delivered with a final value of $5246.25.

From 2010 through 2015, the Lethbridge Research Centre Food Banks' Garden has produced 18200.5 lbs of produce with a value of $40849.75!