The Garden at Fritz has started it’s fourth season of growing food for food banks and meals on wheels … the ground has been opened up and the first rows have begun to take root.
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The 2017 Season is Beginning
Come and help please The new season is starting and we invite you to come along and help us get the crops off to a good start once again … please come for as long or as little as you can manage. The seedlings have germinated and will be ready for planting but first weContinue reading “The 2017 Season is Beginning”
A Big Thankyou
At the end of 2016 The Garden at Fritz held a pot-luck evening to thank our volunteers for their work during the year. We also extend kind acknowledgements to Mike Bleho and J.P from the McGill University Horticultural Center for once again plowing the field for us during the fall…. Mike and McGill university haveContinue reading “A Big Thankyou”
Ploughing the land
The garden was plowed yesterday thanks to the help of Mike Bleho from the McGill Horticultural Center. We hope to next place leaves over the surface then roto till them into the soil next week, thereby getting the land into good condition for the 2017 season. There is a brief video of the ploughing that you canContinue reading “Ploughing the land”
Pumpkin weigh-in ends the season
This morning (Saturday 22 October) The garden-at-Fritz ended a fabulously successful and productive year growing vegetables for local food banks by celebrating – in pouring rain – the weigh-in for our Annual Youth Pumpkin Contest. Each season young people from the town are invited to “adopt” a pumpkin seed which they plant and tend during theContinue reading “Pumpkin weigh-in ends the season”
What did we harvest this year??
It’s almost the end of the vegetable harvesting season at the Garden-at-Fritz and everyone is excited to know how much we grew and delivered to the food banks and meals-on-wheels service in the area. With the fabulous help of our volunteers we brought in … Amount Beans 243kg Courgettes/Zucchini 230.8kg Tomatoes 942kg Beets 100kg KaleContinue reading “What did we harvest this year??”
Appreciation from the Mayor
A message to the volunteers at the Garden from the town’s Mayor: Thank you all for your generosity of time and labour to help provide fresh, naturally grown healthy vegetables for the benefit of many people in need. We are very proud of the good work you do for the extended island community. Maria Tutino
Prolific Tomatoes
Harvested yesterday by Elias, his cousin and Gisela – 125 kg of tomatoes for the foodbanks plus peppers and beans
The Harvest to Date
Today’s harvest was performed for the Garden-at-Fritz by Jorgia, Justin and Gabrielle from the McGill’s Farm to School program ….who enjoyed themselves this morning helping out with the gathering of crops. Up to this morning (to which you can add the contents of these three boxes, at the moment un-weighed) the garden has provided theContinue reading “The Harvest to Date”
Harvest continues
Today’s haul for the needy! 8 volunteers, three 15 or under… A reminder you’re always welcome to volunteer….
Garden at Fritz / Jardin à Fritz 