Growing for Giving Gardens

Join us during the 2013 season on Tuesday evenings to assist with planting, watering, weeding and harvesting vegetables for the Ballard Food Bank. Produce is delivered fresh on Wednesdays, the busiest day of the week at the food bank.

For volunteer dates and times, crop lists, and once the season gets started, the amount of produce collected each week please follow this link to the Ballard Giving Gardens.  If you have any questions or comments please send me an email:   jenndunlap[at]gmail[dot]com.

We are excited to be working with a Ballard greenhouse volunteer group who will be providing the Giving Gardens with many starter plants for both the spring and summer season.

If you are unable to join us on Tuesday evenings, you can volunteer/give in other ways:

Weed & Water Giving Garden Plots: when you are at the garden, set aside a little time to assist with weeding and watering. Record your time in the Volunteer Log , your time counts toward your annual P-Patch hours.

Grow-a-Plant:  This season we are asking interested gardeners to grow a tomato plant for the Giving Gardens.  Brightly colored ribbons will be provided to you and we will harvest the plant on Tuesday evenings.

Giving Garden Gleaning: summer gets busy fast.  If you are unable to tend to your patch as you had planned, and know it needs to be harvested, let us know and we will glean your veggies for the Food Bank.

If you are available on a Tuesday evening – you do not have to commit for the entire season – drop in and join us to volunteer for the food bank, join in on the conversation and  snacks we all share after our work is done.

We hope to have a donation season that runs into October again and look forward to your support,

Jenn
Giving Garden Team Leader

Want a better understanding of how the Giving Garden program works?

Lettuce Link’s P-Patch Growing for Giving

http://vimeo.com/31447835