Gearing Up for Summer

As we are nearing summer, the garden is almost in full swing.  There are a lot of vegetables in the ground and the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are anxious to be planted (By the way we have a TON of eggplant and tomatoes, more than we have room for.  If you want some we can give you some!) At the moment we are trying to figure out the most efficient way to water the garden.  Luckily we have a great maintenance staff who has really helped us out, but we are hoping that we can come up with a rain catching device.  While we are working on that, this rain is great!

Our most exciting new addition to the garden is our compost pile!  We have teamed up with the kitchen and they are fully on board of collecting organic waste from their prep work and giving it to us to bring down to the garden.  We have already brought down two loads of compost and it is clear that this is a big operation due to the amount of compost we are collecting.  Another thing we have to concentrate on is maintaining the right amount of green (compost) and brown (leaves, pine needles etc). 

If you are interested in helping us out over the summer please look to our calendar and plug in the dates that you are able to help out. (I hope the link works)

https://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=en&tab=wc&pli=1&gsessionid=TWHJAmAovtA-uRlK65biYA