Houston Community Garden

I decided to take a peek at the sweet potatoes yesterday and found wonderfulness under the dirt! Hailey and I dug about 1/2 of each of the two beds and came away with 37# of sweet potatoes! Beautiful! I'm saving the rest of the potatoes for when the 3rd graders return to the garden next week. They'll love to help dig them up!

I also grabbed all the logs and tallied numbers.

In July, August, and through yesterday, 866# of food were harvested and logged, representing 28 different foods and herbs. 46 people logged visits and volunteer hours. Over 200 hours were put into the garden during that time. An estimated 230 people from the Houston area benefited from the harvest of the garden.

Once again, I like those numbers. Mainly because I know that they are all higher. Many visits aren't logged in the book. And once extra food is put into the library, who knows how many different families may benefit?

Good stuff happening!

We still have tomatoes, peppers, lots of squash, sweet potatoes, kale, and a handful of lettuce, in addition to herbs. Joan is guiding me to work with the horseradish after the frost. Anyone want to participate in a horseradish party?

Stop by the Taste of the Trail tomorrow, Saturday to taste some yummy tomato soup and squash soup, both made from garden harvests. Roger will be there with some of his yummy stuff, too.

And, mark your calendars for the 2nd annual Wine and Cheese Social! November 4th from 3 pm - 5 pm! Special music guests is the chamber group, Quintessence. I'm excited!