A lot has changed at the garden since our last update! We’re harvesting! And the garden has been beautified by hand-crafted signage. We enjoyed a wonderful community festival day with all of you! And, did we mention the harvesting???
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Volunteers helped us to paint signs showing all of our different vegetable crops.
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The entrance way to our garden has been significantly improved with this Torah-full piece of art. It was painted by a bat-mitzvah girl who is working at the garden as her bat-mitzvah project.
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Our garden beds are now labeled with Hebrew letters. We’ll never get lost again!
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Children of our CSA members often come along to pick up their boxes. They love hunting for snails on Thursday afternoons, while their parents choose their produce.
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A volunteer helping us mow the pathways using a push lawn mower – with a bit of extra muscle we are limiting the amount of fossil fuel we need to maintain our garden.
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This is a picture of Tamara building our
solar oven, in honour of
Birkat HaChama (blessing of the sun which occurs once every 28 years, which we did in February).
Harvesting: in keeping with the Mishnaic law of ma’aser (donating a tenth of one’s harvest) we have been donating produce through United Chesed and to a local food bank and shelter.
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Bok Choy
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Crooked Neck Squash
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Our apprentices went raspberry picking at a local organic farm and then learned how to make raspberry jam, which was sold at the
community festival.