Welcome week!

The first full week of school is over! Somehow this week felt very long but also went by very quickly. We’ve been meeting lots of new students, doing lots of harvesting, and continuing to plan for the fall:)

This was a busy week of tabling for us at the ccg! We were at CCU days on Wednesday and Thursday, and spent Friday at the SSD’s Mental Health Resource Fair. Tabling is so much fun because we’re able to give away free food and flowers while introducing ourselves to so many students and telling them about our programs! We’ve got lots of fun workshops and events coming up this fall, so we’ve been sharing some sneak peaks with students to give them an idea of our work. It’s always great to see the smiles on peoples’ faces when you give them a sunflower or a bunch of kale!

We also held our Welcome Work Party yesterday! All of our work parties are always open to everyone, and no experience is ever required, but today was a special work party tailored to introducing new volunteers to the space and to our work. It was so awesome to see so many new faces out in the garden!! Our work parties are continuing to take place on Friday afternoons between 2-4pm, so even if you missed the one today, we’d love to see you on another Friday!

Coming up, we have a special board meeting on Tuesday afternoon! This is our board meet & greet, where staff and board members will spend some time together doing work in our shared garden plot and getting to know the space and each other a bit better :)

We’ve also got a very exciting event on Thursday afternoon/evening, the Friends of the Garden get-together! This event is a casual drop-in potluck for all friends of the garden (plot renters, board members, staff, volunteers, community members), a chance to connect with other gardeners, ask questions and learn, share food, and spend some time in the space! This is the first event in our fall events lineup, where this year we’re striving to provide more opportunities to connect as a community. More information can be found here on our Instagram, and we would love to see you there!

That’s all I’ve got for this week! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)

Happy gardening,
Jessi