I'm jumping on the veggie and fruit box bandwagon
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Comments (10)I work in a church garden (about 8 churches in area have gardens for several food programs). Can only speak from experience here: Most churches do not have the equipment (fridges, storage) to take raw produce that often has no shelf life.. We pick & take directly to a central food kitchen. Our Ag Extension Agent is helping to coordinate community gardens, individuals, farmers, and the non profits to distribute- but it's tough to deal with a few people a week showing up with bags of cukes and tomatoes. Ours is a small church garden, 5 beds, but we raised 600 lbs of beans, tomatos, peppers, eggplant, squash-and all was used. The very large orgs get almost 100% from grocery chains & manufacturers, and are more like food wholesalers - they can't deal with tiny donations - manpower, equipment, etc, and often don't deal in produce (perishable) at all. Start with your Ag Agent, then churches. We also could just drop off in smaller qty at some of the half way houses. Check out the American Community Gardening Association....See MoreFruits/Veggies in the Upper Peninsula
Comments (8)ken don't give up on the cantelope. i had 2 good years in a row 01 and 02 with some early type melons. stick with 70-80 day maturity. they like sun. i tried planting them between rows of corn in 2003, big mistake. didn't plant any last year because we had a baby. zucchini should grow just about anywhere. i grow it. tomatoes, i have tried quite a few varities the past 3 years. you should be able to grow any early or midseason variety most years. i try a few late varieties each year just to see. the past 3 years the summers haven't been very warm, and last year was a bad one for tomatoes. water melons really suffer from cool weather. 3 years ago i got about 6 small melons. not much advice i can give you there yet. i'm still trying to figure out how to grow them here. blueberries should do well. wild blueberies grow all over the place up here. just make sure your soil is acidic enough. ph shouldn't be much higher than 5.0 other things that grow well are potatos, various brassicas, greens, bush beans, pole beans, carrots, beets, peppers, asparagus, lots of garlic and onions, whatever we like to eat, and can grow here, we do. sure could use a little more heat this summer. a good source of gardening info will be your immediate neighbors. talk to the ones that have nice gardens. ride your bike around the hood, and check things out. enjoy da U.P. keith in calumet...See MoreHAVE: Hope I'm not jumping the gun...
Comments (37)I'm another person who wouldn't mind "vintage" at all. I have a lovely old pink pressed glass bowl on my counter that belonged to my Grandmother, I keep fruit it it. Ashley's favorite "dishes" are my old individual square Corningware casseroles, leftover from my childhood. RuddMD sent me a great brown dripware cookie jar, another of my childhood memories. So, yes, certainly vintage. My house is mostly second hand stuff anyway, it'll fit right in. Plus, the older stuff is so well made, it'll probably last into another generation! Annie...See MoreJumping on Tobacco Road Bandwagon. ?? re: Master Bath
Comments (6)Thanks, everyone. KMCG ... I know what you mean about the LA Gold 3. I have it in my master bath/bed, foyer, great room and kitchen. Thus, the reason to start breaking away from it !! Hellokitty, I'll be happy to post pics as soon as I get it done 1! And, twotogo ... I LOVE looking at those pics for inspiration and have a couple of times already ... there's almost *too* many choices. :-) I really would love something creamy in color and warm ... hoping one of the lighter shades on the TR strip fits the bill. Thanks again, Becca...See Moresleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
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