COMMUNITY GARDEN
We’re back in Spring 2025 - reach out if you are interested in helping with the Garden. Work begins in February.
We have paused our community garden for Summer 2024
Please reach out if you are interested in making it a success in the future, we need volunteers to help with upkeep.
Garden Planting March 29th & April 12, 2023 at 6pm (weather permitting)
Informational Meeting
February 26th 2023 at 4 pm
come see the garden & find out about how you can be involved and what is needed. We will meet in the Annex (the small of the 2 buildings, right next to the garden) The opportunities are endless with the right volunteers! We need experienced help, strong labor, kids who want to learn, people who need the food, and those who just enjoy working in the garden.
Absolutely no commitment required - Just come see & learn about what we are doing.
Tentative first workday: Sunday March 12 - late afternoon
January 2023
It is winter and our garden is dormant. Soon it will need to be cleared, cleaned out and prepped for the Spring planting season. Check back for dates on Garden Workdays* and informational meetings.
Meetings should take place at the end of February and the first work day in early March.
Come help determine what the future of the garden looks like!
*we have extra gloves & tools, no experience needed.
Fall 2023
With the warm weather, our garden continued to produce well into the fall. Though ultimately we lost our squash & zucchini to “squash bugs” we had a very fruitful year. We donated the extra food to various non-profit groups in the community that feed those in need.
We even had pepper after the first freeze!
Summer 2023
This summer we added a trellis the entire length of the garden. This gave ample room for our melons and cucumbers to grow - along with our beautiful flowers!
Since we had drip irrigation we survived the drought summer really well. We harvest lots of fruit & vegetables. An added bonus this season was having more people from the neighborhood stop to harvest and get to know about the garden.
It really is FOR the community. Whether you need the food, want the food or just want to work in the garden, it is a place for everyone.
May 2022
Our seeds and baby plants are in! We had a huge (and much needed) rain the 3rd week of May and that helped get the garden off to a great start. It’s green & growing!
We have several variety of tomatoes, squash, peppers, ZUCCHINI, egg plant, okra, herbs, sweet corn & black eye peas.
Plus cucumber, Israeli melon & water melon planted along the trellis tunnel.
March 2022 UPDATE
We have 2 San Angelo Master Gardeners helping make improvements for our 2022 community garden! We have added a walk-through trellis, drip irrigations and more varity to our plants. If you would like to help, learn, or just have space to put your own garden - please contact us. We look forward to how this community garden will feed our neighbors, expand our understanding of stewarding the earth & help grow our relationships with one another. Weather permitting: we will work in the Garden March 30th & APril 22 at 6 pm. stop by and see what’s growing!
October 2021 UPDATE
In late september we planted a “small” fall garden. broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots & onion will be ready later this fall. Okra & pepper are still producing and need to be harvested frequently! Anyone is welcome to harvest what they want & pull weeds! Send a message to let us know you were here!
AUGUST UPDATE:
Our nearby neighbors have begun to help tend the garden & reap from the harvest. It is not creating a common ground for work & conversations. If you would like to get involved with our community garden - please email us and come harvest with us! If you are in need of fresh vegetable please let us know and come harvest anytime! We have fresh veggies ripen daily! We have had great success this year. The vegetables have survived the heat & bugs, so far!
We are currently making weekly donation to local food ministries THROUGH KEEPERS OF HOPE.
How it started….
Beginning in April 2021 we will Plant our very first community garden! Here are our intentions, hopes and plans:
Provide good food for those working the garden.
Provide fresh vegetables for our neighbors, particularly those in need, or with limited access to fresh foods.
Learn good land stewardship. When God created the earth he gave humans the charge to steward it.
Teach the next generation how to grow a garden! This will be a mulit-generational endeavor.
Be generous. We own a large piece of land right in the middle of town! This is one way that we can share with our neighbors.
Make new friends! There’s noting like a shared project to help strangers become friends!
“Planting a garden is an opportunity, an opportunity to recognize our own dependance on food, the slow nature of growth, an opportunity to stand in opposition to the destructive practices of fast food & on-demand groceries, an opportunity to practice stewardship, to recognize our own need for nourishment that comes only through the slow, dependent upon the earth, work of farmers, gardeners & land keepers. It requires us to recognize our own selfish, consumptive, tendencies and opens our eyes to a better way, a slow way..... ”