Busy, Busy, Busy...

Gil is keepin' the weeds down while Tony sets up watermelon supports.

Jerica chuckles at Tony's unfortunate attempt to untangle the irrigation hose.

Almost... got it....

2009!

A couple quick snapshots of the Grow Hartford farm as we head into June!

Lets Grow Together Community Event

The event was a success! THANK YOU to everyone who was able to attend. I personally had a great time. Knowing that others enjoyed themselves makes the feeling all the better. Special THANKS to the DJ Mark Jenkins of Sound Guyz who played wonderfully. Another Specail Thanks to Jason Rojas from trinity college for his help and support. Thanks Again Jerica Sandiford

Broad st Garden

Hi my name is Cristalee and my experience at Broad st Garden is the best thing so far because I made friends and we planted alot of vegetable and fruits like some cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, corn, lettuce, egg plant,oprah. We Even celebrated Lester's birthday.

Holcomb Farm

Hello again it's me Carl today I'm going to talk about the field trip and other things that we learned through the week . yesterday I went to Holcomb farm to help cut onion and harvest and the farm was big they own like about 5 side of the land that they grow crops and animals around the farm I learned that if you cut the stem of the onion you can regrow them again.we all met Sam is the tall guy that show us how to cut and harvest the stem .

Farmers Market

Hi my name is Trysten Hairston and i am a employee of Grow Hartford and i participated in the farmers market to entertain those people who was shopping there.While we were there we did face painting,dancing,and serving smoothies to the costumers. When we were at the farmers market we had DJ play music for us but he mostly played old school music but we got into the groove.The best part about the farmers market was that every participated in those activities at the end we all had fun.

Unique garden on Broad st.

Hi my name is Jean Ortiz and i'm having an awesome experience working on a beautiful garden

on broad st. Theirs different varieties of vegetables and fruits in our garden. for example, egg plant, lettuce, tomato's, cucumber's, watermelon and more. before the garden was nothing more

but a junk yard, but now it is one of the most beautiful garden in Hartford. we are are having an

a community cookout on July 31, all is welcome. so Ive had an awsome time here, and i hope to see more.