June 12, 2024
"Early birds" get some of the best pictures in the early morning. We are looking for " early volunteers" who can help us on Saturday between 8:00-11:00. We hope you can join us this summer on Thursday nights at 7:00 in the garden or on Saturday morning at the pantry.
Eileen, in registration, continues to welcome our neighbors including an additional five new families this week. It was a busy morning for our volunteers as 119 families shopped for 3 1/2 days of food or 11 meals. Our neighbors, on Saturday, represented 447 household members.
As a cool gentle breeze blew across the garden on Thursday evening, volunteers truly had their hands in the soil as we planted green beans. You took three beans from your bean cup and placed the beans six inches apart in the raised beds. Next you used your thumb to push the beans about an inch down in the soil. Cover with a bit of soil and TaDa !
On behalf of the Executive Committee, we continue to thank our volunteers and our area churches, civic groups, local merchants, and families for all you do to feed our community by helping to reduce food insecurity. We thank you and appreciate your food and monetary donations.
From the Executive Committee, Kathy Noyes
The Lord’s Acre, Fletcher, We had a great bean-planting crew last week. Thank you. The plants are already emerging.
Join us Thursday at 7pm to set in another round of cucumber and yellow squash plants. And, if time, as always, a little light weeding. It’s a busy time in the garden. We value your time and effort to make fresh, healthy vegetables available to food pantry neighbors. They love ‘em!
Cloning Right in the Lord’s Acre: In the more-than-you-needed-to-know department, we are responding to our groundhog troubles by accommodation, not elimination. We’ve lost ten or so Cherokee Purple tomato plants from vicious groundhog attacks. OK, they were just looking for breakfast. Nevertheless, we assumed those plants and the tomatoes were ours! So, we saved some “suckers” pruned from the hoop house tomato plants, stuck them in damp potting soil, and after two weeks, transplanted them into the row spaces left by the eaten plants.
Will the new plants survive and give us tomatoes, or have we just replenished the buffet?
Stay tuned. - Doug Kearney
