This August the Neighborhood House Production Garden is putting out tons of beans, eggplants, carrots, beets, some tomatoes and the ever-prolific zucchini and squash, all of which goes to support folks who need food support from the Free Food Market.
|
|
|
Healthy Food for All Neighbors
|
|
|
HUGE thanks to everyone bringing in produce to the Free Food Market from your Scattered Garden. Together, we help make sure neighbors have access to quality, healthy and fresh produce. Please be sure to mention the Scattered Garden program when you donate so we can track the program's progress! It helps us find grants and other funding. Any garden is a Scattered Garden!
You can drop off your produce at 3445 SW Moss St, Portland, OR 97219.
Free Food Market donation hours
Monday: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am-noon
Wednesday: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
|
|
|
How Does Your Garden Grow? |
|
|
The pictures from your Scattered Gardens are fun and inspiring! We're so excited to see the beauty and the bounty all your Scattered Gardeners are creating. Seeing the young garden helpers is both adorable and encouraging to see the next generation of the earth's caretakers at work.
Send us your photos and gardening tips! Tag us on social media @nhpdx or email Garden Tips and Pics
|
|
|
Gathering Together Farm not only has adorable helpers, they are a Spring Garden Park CSA pickup site. The Farm's Pam Fox is coordinating a vegetable donation with our Free Food Market for leftover vegetable boxes from the CSA.
|
| The Multnomah Neighborhood Association shared a pic of a young helper giving a drink to a pumpkin, sunflower, dahlia, and green beans all at the same time.
|
|
|
Garden Tips from the "Field"
|
Production Garden volunteer Debra Wu Vernick offered helpful gardening ideas from her home garden to share:
|
-
Grow nutrient demanding veggies like squashes and tomatoes IN your compost bin. It's an easy way to grow. You never have to fertilize! Squashes tend to take up real estate so it's an economical way to grow them.
- Bright flowers nearby will help attract pollinators.
- Plant things very close together in a bed to reduce soil exposure. This helps retain water.
-
Use strawberries or sedums as ground cover between your veggies and herbs for even more water retention.
|
Photos from Debra's home garden:
|
|
|
|
Debra planted several different zucchinis and squashes next to or inside her compost bin.
She says the plants love the natural fertilization from the decomposing elements in the soil. The colorful flowers nearby help attract pollinators.
|
|
| Debra plants several types of plants close together in her garden to reduce soil exposure, retain water and increase biodiversity.
Pictured here: tree collard, calendula, strawberries, sweet peas, walking onions, yellow yarrow, and nasturtium flowers that attract pollinators and are also edible.
|
|
|
|
Tomatillos Are Bountiful This Year...
|
The tomatillos are coming in strong this year in the Production Garden, a far cry from last year's less-successful showing. Tomatillos are very popular in the Free Food Market, especially among Hispanic shoppers, and always get snapped up quickly.
|
Photo credit Ariel Wisch-Schute
|
Are the tomatoes coming in later this year for everyone? This is the best one we've seen in the Production Garden so far. Picked just today, this good-looking fella measures 4" across and 3" high. Here's hoping the rest of the crop comes in just as well. And soon!
|
|
|
Please share this email with gardeners in your life.
You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Neighborhood House Scattered Garden newsletter. You can always unsubscribe below.
|
|
|
Manage your preferences | Opt Out using TrueRemove™
Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.
View this email online.
|
7780 SW Capitol Hwy | Portland, OR 97219 US
|
|
|
This email was sent to .
To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.
|
| |
|
|
