Harvested yesterday by Elias, his cousin and Gisela – 125 kg of tomatoes for the foodbanks plus peppers and beans

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 the following vegetables to the food banks/meals-on-wheels we support:

Beans – 116.3 kg
Courgettes/Cucumbers – 37.8 kg (+ 4/5 unweighed boxes)
Tomatoes – 51.7 kg (+ 3 unweighed boxes from this morning)
Beets – 60 roots
Kale – 2 unweighed boxes
Celery – 21 stalks
Mixed salad – 14 4-litre bags
Celeriac – 6 bulbs

… and there’s plenty more to come, especially as the tomatoes ripen. We have hardly started.

Today’s haul for the needy!
8 volunteers, three 15 or under…
A reminder you’re always welcome to volunteer….

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Harvest by Robert, Oliver, Christine and Gisela, and the same group as a week earlier from McGill

• 30 Beets
• 14 kg Beans
• 2 green containers of Cucumbers
• 1 green container of Kale
• ½   “           “       of Zucchini

Saturday, 30 July 2016

Harvest by Christine and Gisela, delivery by Stephane Thierry

• Yellow Beans          6.5 kg
• Green Beans          16.0 kg
• Cucumbers            12.7 kg
• Zucchini                5.4 kg
• Tomatoes              2.2 kg

 

Some useful meals in those boxes

 

As our first crops come in this season and we prepare to start distribution to our partner food banks, meals-on-wheels etc we are pleased to welcome the assistance (once a week we hope) of the willing workers from the McGill Ag-Connect Project .

This project seeks to develop self-confidence for intellectually challenged youth through agricultural work experiences that foster life skills. The program has been developed as an inclusive, educational summer opportunity based on food production; providing an accessible opportunity for the intellectually challenged and Work-Oriented Training Path (WOTP) youth which are part of the McGill and greater Montreal community.

It looks like they had a great time in the garden.

Yesterday the garden produced these vegetables – an excellent start to the season

Our first harvest is under way – some fine-looking garlic has been dug

We took a turn around the garden this morning to see how the vegetables are coming along. Everything is growing fast and looking healthy … won’t be too long before we are able to make our first deliveries to the food banks and meals on wheels people.

The Garden at Fritz entered a float in last weekend’s Baie-d’urfé parade …