Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Annual Spring Festival


 Our annual spring festival was a great success. Lots of people helped to get the garden ready including Mr. Lassiter from Harriet Tubman School and volunteers from Newark Leadership Academy.


 We did a scavenger hunt for birds, beetles, and other interesting things you can find in the garden.



 We harvested lettuce, collards and spinach and kale.  We washed some of these greens, spun them in our salad spinner, and had a taste of garden-fresh produce.





Greater Newark Conservancy staff blended "The Hulk" Green Smoothies; brewed mint sun tea; and served up watermelon, popcorn and other healthy treats.





 Clearing out last fall's collard greens gave us room to plant our new crops.









Look at these collard green flowers!
 Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, callaloo and more.
These warm season veggies will be cared for by Conservancy staff over the summer.  Come out on Thursday mornings to help and harvest something tasty to take home!