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Final harvest

Final totals after Mon Sept 30, Tues Oct 1 harvests:

                                                                                Lbs                         value

leaf/head lettuce	123.5	$308.75
swiss chard	270	$675.00
carrots	1125	$2,812.50
green peppers	184.5	$461.25
green beans	150.5	$376.25
eggplant	96	$240.00
tomatoes	633.5	$1,583.75
beets	881	$2,202.50
tomatillos	146	$365.00
mixed peppers/eggplant	14	$35.00
Totals	3624	$9,060.00

Thanks to all who came out the last 2 days and harvested what was left.  We still have to clean up the garden, remove the fence etc, but all the harvestable veggies have been picked.  

September 25 harvest tally

We're still harvesting!

                                                                                LBS                         Value

leaf/head lettuce	123.5	$308.75
swiss chard	236	$590.00
carrots	1125	$2,812.50
green peppers	184.5	$461.25
green beans	150.5	$376.25
eggplant	96	$240.00
tomatoes	377.5	$943.75
beets	881	$2,202.50
tomatillos	146	$365.00
Totals	3320	$8,300.00

Interfaith Food Banks' Teaching Garden

We are very proud to be involved in the new Teaching Garden at the Lethbridge Interfaith Food Bank. This garden is located on site and will not only provide fresh produce to the Food Banks and Chinook Country Kitchen, but will be used to teach the community about growing food in Lethbridge conditions.

The garden includes raised beds (including two wheel chair and standing accessible beds), a patio and sodded area, a greenhouse, composters, and forno oven. Water is provided by underground sprinklers and rain fed irrigation. The garden will also include a "found objects" section where gardening in every day "found" objects will be demonstrated.

The rocks were painted and provided by a local Seniors' organization.

Accessible raised bed

Looking north across raised beds to the greenhouse

Herb garden

Peppers

Agriculture Union Social Justice Fund

We were very pleased to receive funding from the Agriculture Union Social Justice Fund. With it, we were able to purchase this new seeder.

This week's harvest totals

We delivered more fresh produce this week. We are now at the following tally.   

                                                                             Mass (lbs)           Value

leaf/head lettuce	123.5	$308.75
swiss chard	68	$170.00
carrots	831	$2,077.50
green peppers	144.5	$361.25
green beans	150.5	$376.25
eggplant	59	$147.50
tomatoes	90.5	$226.25
beets	881	$2,202.50
tomatillos	131	$327.50
Totals	2479	$6,197.50

Harvest totals for September 4 2013

Here are the latest harvest totals as of this morning.

                                                                Weight                                 Value

leaf/head lettuce	123.5	308.75
swiss chard	68	170.00
carrots	646	1615.00
green peppers	103.5	258.75
green beans	144	360.00
eggplant	36	90.00
tomatoes	37.5	93.75
beets	881	2202.50
tomatillos	91	227.50
	2130.5 lbs	$5326.25

Recent harvests

We are now harvesting every Tuesday after work. If we get a good crew out, it takes us less than an hour to obtain a truck load full.

As of today, our harvest tally is 1639 lbs, valued at $4095.

Little harvester

Harvest

Harvest began on July 23, 2013 with lettuce and swiss chard in abundance. The Buttercrunch lettuce had some fabulous heads. Since then, we have dropped off two more loads of lettuce and swiss chard as well as baby carrots. In total, we have harvested over 50 lbs of produce with a value of over $100.

We have also installed our new solar panel for our electric fence purchased through a grant from the Public Service Alliance of Canada Agriculture Union Social Justice Fund.

We have a marmot who has been caught munching greenery in our garden. The fence won't stop him but he's an unusual visitor so we'll leave him be for now.

Tomatillos

Swiss chard & Grand Rapids lettuce

Volunteer Karma

Recent photos from our garden. We will soon be harvesting lettuce and swiss chard.