St. Andrew's Grows

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia, is starting our 5th year of vegetable gardening. Our produce is given to the Arlington Food Assistance Center to feed those in need. Over the past 4 years, we have donated over 2 tons of vegetables from our organic garden, using a piece of land on our 5 acre property that had not been used in many years. We are very proud of our efforts and we hope those who receive the produce can taste the love and caring that goes into each item!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

I love technology

Somehow i deleted my Memorial Day weekend post.....sigh! Here are the pics again.....i can't say i'm better at gardening than at blogging either!

Diana delivering her seedlings - tomatoes, chard, peppers....

Diana, dad Dave and Hanson admiring the chard.

Ted, Diana and Dave strategizing....

Hanson tilling the rows.

Ann adding our signs (again a thank you to Long Fence!)

Mother Jenny stopped by to check on our work.

And why would Hanson be standing in a wheelbarrow drinking a Starbucks? Why not?! Blame it on the heat!

June 3 Abundant Life Activity in the Garden

After church today, the kids literally ran to the garden to work! Actually, they ran for snack but i'm pretty good at deluding myself!

We tackled how to water the garden....we talked about rain, about the creek near the garden and then we searched for watering cans and water to water our growing plants....

Everyone agreed it is hard work! And we did a really good job making sure we didn't step on the plants before watering them!

Our work took supervision from some dads.....

So a quick goodbye until next week when we'll do soil samples to send to Virginia Tech for analysis to make sure our soil is rich in all the right nutrients. And next week i'll make sure i get pics of all the kidlets! Sorry Harrison!