Our first harvest

Yesterday (June 23), we harvested our first produce - 22 lbs of spinach!

Weeds!

We pulled weeds yesterday - purslane, red root pig weed.....

Our emergence is patchy for some crops and will require some reseeding.

Beans

Spinach and beets

2014 Seeding

As of Friday, May 16, 2014, our seeds are in the ground. Now we wait for weather and timing to plant out our tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings. We used our new seeder. While we had to make some adjustments, it works great. We hope this will save us from the thinning of carrots and beets that takes considerable effort. Thanks to PSAC Agriculture Union Social Justice Fund for funding the purchase of this seeder.

Learn about our garden....

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