SEEDS TO FEED ROOFTOP FARM

Georgia's Place community rooftop farm for formerly homeless adults.

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🌸🌿 Gardening Delights in Supportive Housing! 🌼🌱

Hey there, lovely community! 🌸

What We've Been Up To: Our gardening enthusiasts, along with our amazing clients, have been busy! Regular weeding sessions have kept our garden pristine and healthy. But that's not all – we've introduced charming flower pots that have added a burst of colors to our surroundings. 🌺🌼 The result? A picturesque view that not only delights our clients but also serves as a delightful decoration for our office space! 🌿✨

Why Gardening Matters: Gardening is more than just planting flowers and weeding the soil; it's about nurturing life, fostering connections, and finding peace in the midst of nature. Our gardening sessions provide a therapeutic space for our clients, promoting relaxation, mindfulness, and a sense of accomplishment. 🌱🌸

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🌼🏡 Exciting News! Tenant Join Us! 🏡🌼

We're thrilled to announce a blooming new addition to our community – our tenants have joined hands for a fantastic gardening venture! 🌱💚 From planting vibrant flowers to creating stunning bouquets, our residents are embracing the joy of gardening together. 🌸🌿

🌿😊 Weeding might be a chore for some, but for us, it's a chance to bond, laugh, and make our housing program even more beautiful. Together, we're turning every weed-pulling session into an opportunity for connection.

🌼✨ Let's sow the seeds of friendship, nurture the bonds of togetherness, and watch our garden – and our community – flourish. 🌱💫 🏡🌸

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Check our new flower bouquet! 🌸

Fresh flowers decorate the office beautifully! 🌷🌹 We made it weekly during the flower season. Tenants can enjoy the flower view each time when they enter our office and the lobby. Just make our supportive housing better! Mood improved and make people feel lightened!

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Baby tomatoes😍

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Making flower bouquet from our rooftop garden! Decorate the office with the flowers and keep a good mood when you enter your workplace! 🌸🌷✨😉💼

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Flower Power will lighten your life!

More Flowers blooming on our rooftop and backyard!

11 notes

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Tomatoes back to our rooftop again! Enjoy the fresh Tomatoes!

Also with seedlings of pepper, cucumber, basil, rosemary, etc. 

Green Joy!

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Some of our perennials.

1,2 - Day Lilly

3,4 - Stargazer Lily

5,6 - Yarrow

7 - Flowers from Lambs Ear

8 - Lavender

9 - Anise Hyssop

10 - Daisy

(More to come!)

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Variety of pole beans looking good!

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Late start after the city has come to halt during this crisis.

Already last week we have baby beans, basil, and some chard sprouting.

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Clovers protecting our soil from the snow. Can’t wait to see how the soil is looking in the next few weeks.

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Scenes from the Winter Garden

Red cabbage with magenta overtones.

Red cabbage, cauliflower, Romanesco broccoli, stock flowers.

One of twelve broccoli plants in the garden.

Celery thriving in cool days, rich soil and winter rain.

Screens over the lettuce and arugula to keep the birds from snacking.

A new favorite lettuce—Lolla Rossa magenta leaves with tiny frills and light green bases.

Violas edging the broccoli bed.

Search “Scenes from the Winter Garden” for over a dozen other posts on the winter garden from other years.

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Mix of peppers that we harvested last month.

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I planted some saguaro seeds about a week ago. Who woukda thunk that such large lads start out so smol. (submitted @nolayelde)

this speaks for itself when paired with a pic of the grown plant for scale:

they usually live to be 150+ years old. cutting one down in Arizona, where they’re native, is a felony with a maximum 9 months in prison. 

in my brief wikipedia exploration to find out how old they could be for this ask i found out that there was a dude in 1982 who was vandalizing one (which is also highly illegal) by shooting at it and then poking at it, and not only did the 500 pound arm of the cactus he was shooting at fall on top of him, but the actual trunk of the cactus then also proceeded to fall on him. he died. smited by the cactus gods for his transgressions 

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There was one we had in our backyard that fell on our fence and buckled the steel bar. When the guy came by to take it away he sliced into roughly foot long segments and we kept one. It was really cool in the inside, also the chlorophyll is on the inside. My mom turned the outer layer into a lampshade

Sorry it’s dusty lmao no idea how to clean it

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i…………..idk how to react to this but this is definitely an item i wasn’t expecting 

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here’s another fun fact about saguaro cactuses (or cacti - both are fine!): when they die, the flesh on them erodes away and leaves these really cool wood-like structures

they’re called bones. these are cactus bones

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……oh

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Bonsai apple tree growing a full-sized apple.

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A perfect balance of extremely impressive and completely ridiculous.

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Apple trees are DETERMINED. My parents planted a twig of an apple tree, and that first year it grew one apple. And the whole thing was bent over from the weight of it. It had one job and by God it was gonna do it.

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she did such a good job I’m so proud