Saturday, September 5, 2009

Growing Volunteers

The Lord's Acre is in the business of growing volunteers and here's one of our finest crops. Jessica Tripp organized this group from Central Methodist Church to come out and give the garden a hand today. Photo by Ben Dement
 
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Garden Color

Photos by Ben Dement:
 
 
 
 
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Kids in the Garden

The Lord's Acre is for all ages. While digging weeds today, the kids from Central Methodist Church found all manner of treasures: forgotten potatoes, caterpillars, maypops that really pop, a few beautiful rocks and our first toad. One thing they looked for but didn't find was a spear point. So far, two have been found in the garden. Come on out and try your luck. Photos by Ben Dement
 
 
 
 
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Saturday in the Garden

The following photos were taken early morning by regular volunteer, Ben Dement with his Canon Rebel and keen eye.
 
 
 
 
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Tons of Food

Thank you to everyone: To Date we've donated aprox. 2 1/3 TONS of produce to Food For Fairview. Thank you for your donations of time, money, talent and equipment.

beans 5 bushels 150 lbs
beets 10 bushels 400 lbs
cabbage
carrots 4 bushels 120 lbs
corn 240 ears 400 lbs
cucumbers 4 bushels 220 lbs
kale
lettuce 510 heads 733 lbs
okra 1.25 bushels 19 lbs
peppers 10 bushels 290 lbs
potatoes 17 bushels 870 lbs
radishes 1.5 bushels 30 lbs
squash/ zucch. 11 bushels 460 lbs
Swiss Chard 6 bushels 120 lbs
tomatoes 2 bushels 96 lbs
turnips 9 bushels 450 lbs

A Few of The Lord's Acre Board Members

April (on our board) and Larry talk over a bed of beets.
 
Pat (also on the board) thins lettuce seedlings and transplants them to another bed.
 
Steve (also on the board) harvests beans - plants and all.
 
Mike points out the wild passion flower growing in the kid's garden. They seem an appropriate symbol for this garden - a community's passion for feeding the hungry.
 
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Volunteer Faces

Kevin & Stephanie's first day in the garden. We put them right to work harvesting peppers. Lots and lots of peppers.
 
April thins beets and thinks through our Fundraiser's details in her head as she does.
 
David is game for any task and last night he tackled cutting down the spent cornstalks and bundling them into shocks for the fundraiser (Sept. 19th - 5:30 - 10:30 potuck, square dance, awesome raffle, pony rides and more)
 
Becky's contribution was digging the last of the potatoes and looking for any that others may have missed.
 
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Wyeth & Dress Code

If you're familiar with Andrew Wyeth's painting - Christina's World - you'll recognize our immitation here with "Salem's World". Volunteer, Salem Johnson, thins carrots and I couldn't resist capturing her unintentional immitation of Wyeth's painting.
 
Paul, Steve, and Larry swear they didn't coordinate ahead of time but they showed up with what they're touting as: The Johnny Cash Look OR the new dress code for The Lord's Acre.
 
That was until Mike Dale showed up with his awesome hat. For now, come as you are. All volunteers are welcome, even if you can't keep up with these style setters.
 
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