fresh from the heart challenge--thank you for donating!

"Fresh From the Heart Grow Challenge"

Gardeners Share with the Calgary Food Bank

Here is a win-win-win friendly challenge for all community gardens!

•    Fresh produce for Calgarians short of food

•    Feeling good that your surplus fresh produce is finding a good home

•    Getting to know your neighbouring gardens

•    Bragging rights for community gardeners

•    Encouraging the growth of more community gardens

Here's how it works:

•    Calculate the square footage of your garden under cultivation.

•    Send an email to cgrn@calhort.orgto request a simple registration form that will be used to help the Calgary Food Bank calculate the poundage being donated per garden.

•    Harvest your fresh, disease-free produce (taking pictures as you do). No need to wash or trim the produce.

•    Either take the produce to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank or call & ask them up to come & collect it.  

•    Attend the Harvest Fair on October 1 at Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Centre & experience the friendly produce competition, farmers' market, awards ceremony and more!

The Mid-Sun Community Garden has been donating food to

the Calgary Food Bank since 2011.

Is your Community Garden up to the Challenge this season?

 

potato condo!

Check out the potato condo...in the "west block" of the garden.  This picture is already outdated--there is more soil and more boards...
Did you "condo" your potatoes? 
IF so, take a moment for a picture and a few words and we'd love to hear about it and share it on the blog!

Foodbank Finale!

WOW!

What a fabulous season of growing for the foodbank!

With our last harvest of

purple potatoes,

purple carrots,

and (white) onions...

harvested by the folks from Options Calgary...

we add another 67.4 pounds of produce

bringing our total foodbank harvest to 180.4 pounds!

Woohoo!

final foodbank harvest

Today our Food bank potato plot was harvested by the kind and hardworking crew from Options Calgary!

 

We braved the cool morning and soon warmed up with all the digging and hunting for PURPLE potatoes.

Added to that, carrots and onions...and we have another bumper crop.

Harvesters were keen and eager to think of all the fun next year!

Thank you Options Calgary for your hard work in the garden this year.

Foodbank donations: we've only just begun....!

Today's donation with Calgary Interfaith Foodbank's Felicity!

Are you inspired?

Let's keep growing!

Foodbank signs!

Sheri, our resident artist came with some signs! 

Yes!  We have some signs!

She deserves an Olympic medal for these, they are fabulous!