Yellow squash. Bunches and bunches, and more on the way. Mandy and Judy harvested on Sunday 6/7/09, and delivered to the Rowan Helping Ministries.

The WILD garden is sprouting nicely, we had birds frollicking in the birdbath this weekend.

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Following Kathleen's lead I created a space for NC Community Gardeners and Community Garden Partners on ning.com. Come add events to the calendar, post to the blog, add images, videos and more -- what a great tool!! Come check it out!

http://nccommunitygarden.ning.com/

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The WILD children sowed the garden on Sunday. We were graced with a blessing from Bishop Gregg. There were lots of cameras, hopefully we will get some pictures of this garden soon.

Mandy M. brought a bucket of cornmeal, and, with the children's help, we emptied almost every single packet of flower seeds into the bucket. After mixing it up, we filled small plastic cups and the children carefully (or wildly) scattered the seed throughout the garden. After we ran out of cornmeal, the kids used the… Continue

Saturday was lovely, not too hot, NO RAIN (finally). About 8 members of the group weeded and cleared 4 or 5 rows, mostly where the lettuce had been, and planted red and white potatoes (from the Salisbury Rowan Farmer's Market), carrots, radishes, lemon basil (thank you Jean!) and cucumbers.

We also set up more French Trellises around the remaining rows of unstaked tomatoes, using PINK string this time, just for variety. We have a couple of tomato plants that are at the end of a row, they'll nee… Continue

And it's us, and a whole lot of other folks...

http://www.ampleharvest.org/index.php

This is a non-profit group that is trying to connect backyard gardeners with food pantries by creating a nation-wide index of pantries like our friends at San Matteo/St. Matthew's. The FAQ on this site is very interesting, pointing out that a lot of food pantries operate "under the radar" in that they don't have a web presence, or yellow page ads. I don't think I would know about San Mateo except for Whayne's… Continue