Sunday, September 25, 2011

Butternut squash, anyone?

Just a quick update.  920 pounds of produce is the year to date tally!  Mind boggling.  Equally mind boggling - how to figure out who needs what and when.  Karyn is now sitting with a large quantity of butternut squash just harvested.  The pantries we've been contributing to don't have storage space.  So now we need to solve another problem.  How do we get the harvest to the people who need it?  Ideas?  

Monday, September 19, 2011

The Garden that Keeps Giving

Who would have thought that just three months after breaking ground we would be able to harvest hundreds of pounds of fresh, organic produce?  Last week, Karyn reported that she had to pull the back seats out of her mini-van to make room for the tomatoes, beans, squash and potatoes.   Everything has been delivered to the grateful recipients at the Cumberland and Freeport Community Services and Portland's Preble Street.  Here are some pictures of the produce and the Cumberland Girl Scouts who participated in harvesting veggies a few weeks ago: