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At last night’s “group work bee” up at the KEGG.CA community garden, we had our first pickings of some lovely red AND golden beets (with more to come), our first kohlrabis were harvested (with more to come), we pulled the volunteer potato plants that grew in this year’s carrot row, which resulted in a bunch of potatoes + some tasty carrot samples (with more to come), we seeded more carrots & more Bibb lettuce, there was some mountain spinach & red kale snipped, and one lucky contestant went home with the second nice-sized zucchini of the year (with more to come… and with some little Patty Pans also showing signs of ‘more to come’) 👍

To top things off we had some tasty watermelon from Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot on hand + one KEGG’r brought in some frozen locally picked huckleberries covered in chocolate and… it tasted exactly as refreshing as you’re imagining it tasting 😋

How’s it going where you’re growing?

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We had another productive “group work bee” last night… so productive was it that I never got around to taking any pictures of all the pruning and weeding and picking and reseeding and chatting that took place — HOWEVER — I did take a picture of a little bee in the greenhouse doing some pollinating + there have been some more hollyhocks popping (including new colours) since we last spoke about hollyhocks starting to pop along our fence line (and I suspect some more will be popping today and the next day and etc) 🙌👏👍

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We’ve reached that time in the growing season when we start having more stuff to harvest, which means the KEGG community garden has reached that time in the season when we start doing a weekday morning harvest to share with the Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot (who then further share on with community members via one of their many ways of connecting locals with food, whether thru their public fridge or their cooked meals) — and this morning there was a wee picking of broccoli leaves, garlic scapes, turnips, lemon balm and Swiss chard to drop off from KEGG (with signs of more good stuff on the way) 👍

This early morning garden shift was also a nice reminder of how nice it is to be outside early in the morning during these stretches of hot days — HOWEVER — the Kimberley Food Depot kindly hooked our usual Wednesday Evening “group work bee” up with some watermelon 🍉 and bubbly cans of refreshments (to go along with our lemon balm steeped water + some delicious extra chocolaty muffins that our el presidente baked up)… so the Wednesday evening garden shift was pretty nice too (where we got a whole bunch of random garden tasks done as well) 👍

I guess it’s just nice being out in the garden with fellow gardeners, whether it’s in the morning or in the evening, eh?

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Ooooh… so that’s why the 4th letter in “KEGG” stands for “Greenhouse”!!! 🙃 (ie. up until the side panels finished going on at today’s workbee (Saturday, September 2nd), Kimberley Edible Gardens & Greenhouse had kinda been greenhouse-less since setting up the community garden up in townsite 2-ish years ago — thankfully nobody noticed that we had actually been 'KEG' the last couple years because now our other ‘G’ is up & looking g-g-g-great!)

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Went up to the KEGG.CA community garden with some compost this morning and, yep, it is also totally winter up there too ❄️

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We’ve reached that lovely time of the year when it’s starting to look more & more like a garden again 🌱

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Up at the @kegg.ca community garden, we make compost that can’t be… BEET!

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SURPRISE! We have artists among our gardeners — and our KEGG mural (with the amazing artwork conceived and painted by the amazing Elaine Rudser) is now hanging up at the community garden and we couldn't LOVE it more! Even the hover flies & bees were fooled by it's beauty and have been checking out the new flowers on the wall 🌻