The garden is located in the Midway neighborhood of Baltimore, between 21st and 22nd street and one block east of Greenmount Ave. Feel free to email me for more information, to volunteer, or more!
March 24, 2011 (Week One):
March 19th, 2011. We break ground! And pick up trash, meet the neighbors, and start some seedlings. City Council President Jack Young comes to say hello. More information is posted on the Greater Greenmount Community Association blog. Thanks to Lowell Larsson for the photos. The BaltimoreDIY post about Day #1 is here.
March 30, 2011 (Week Two):
Week #2 post is located here. We measure our first two rows and till. Two hundred feet total!
End of April 2011:
Community beds are built and forty cubic yards of compost are delivered!
May 2011:
Perennial plant barter. We put in sorrel, chamomile, strawberry, echinacea, and more in a perennial herb garden.
The SWAT team invades our radish harvest!
June 2011:
A MICA class comes to visit Boone Street. First visit and second visit. The plants are in the early stages of growth! We're growing peanuts, cucumbers, okra, kale, collards, tomatoes, potatoes, beets, carrots, sorghum, black eyed peas, squash and zucchini, hubbard squash, oregano, peppers, and purslane.
6/19/11: Urban Food Fair at Real Food Farm.
Our first market goes well! We sell beet greens, mixed kale and collards, pickled beets, radish kimchee, canned foraged serviceberries, lavender syrup, and lavender or serviceberry lemonades. We will use the proceeds to support ourselves for next year so we're not as grant dependent.
7/15/11 Artscape 2011 Market
We turn our eight pounds of cucumbers and pound of carrots into rice vinegar-honey pickles for vegetarian vietnamese sandwiches. Zucchini bread with our zucchini was also available. Click on the link (Artscape 2011 Market) for recipes!
7/29/11 Clean-up for the BLOCK PARTY... coming August 6th!
8/6/11 Block Party! Photo slideshow posted here.
August 2011 Value Added Produce
Harvesting about 4-5 lbs. of food every other time we visit the garden! We've got okra, greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, basil, even a bit of sorghum, leftover beets, a mediocre potato harvest. Working on various markets to sell the food, creating a neighborhood distribution list, and preserving lots as value-added product.
9/8/2011 It's raining. A lot.
9/14/11 HampdenFest
9/19/2011 Participating hosts for the Greenhorns Urban Ag Conference
9/24/11 Johns Hopkins volunteers help out for the President's Day of Service! Thank you!
10/26/11 Building the hoop house
12/1/11 The hoop house plastic is on!
1/1/12 Kicking off 2012 with a Brunch Bake Sale!