Collard City Growers welcomed visitors during the 2020 season, even though the main building was closed due to the pandemic.
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- Starting some seeds in soil blocks
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- The beds look lifeless in early spring but an abundance of growth waits just below the surface
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- Amending the spring beds with compost
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- Spencer prepping some beds for spring planting
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- The watermelon’s first leaves are distinct
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- Welcome watermelon seedlings
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- The first tomato seedling
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- Melons and tomatoes germinate only in warm soil, so we used a heating mat to get a head start in the high tunnel.
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- An anonymous florist donated flowers for the community
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- A watermelon seedling
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- A baby tomato
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- Seedlings growing in the high tunnel were protected from frost and weather
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- The seeds grown at CCG were donated or saved from prior seasons
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- Transplanting a raspberry plant
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- CCG coordinator Alexis found a wormy worm
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- Red Russian kale seedlings
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- A tray of seedlings in soil blocks
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- Tomato seedlings
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- Tomatillo seedlings coming along
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- Parsley
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- We experimented with soil blocks in the spring
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- Watermelon seedling
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- A watermelon seed snuck in with a tomato
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- Blossoms on strawberry plants
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- In 2020 we had soil delivered to fill the new raised beds in the high tunnel
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- Fresh garlic scapes
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- Intern Mathew got a free tie-dye harvesting mulberries
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- The interns often harvested and dried CCG herbs
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- Fresh dill harvested to freeze
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- The interns preserved the spring flavor of dill by making dill vinegar
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- Saving seeds from over-wintered collard greens grown in their namesake, Collard City Growers.
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- Alfonso holds some produce harvested from CCG.
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- In the sunny hoop house at Collard City Growers during Uptown Summer 2020.
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- Uptown Summer participants harvest peaches at CCG.
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- Is it true that you are what you eat, Jamel?
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- Uptown Summer participant Ciara found a bunch of green grapes while gardening at CCG.
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- The watermelon patch
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- A baby blacktail mountain watermelon, growing up
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- The squash patch
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- Fresh kohlrabi
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- CCG coordinator Alexis’s pet rabbit hopped in a basket of kohlrabi from CCG
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- A praying mantis
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- A praying mantis hunting amongst tomatillo plants in the high tunnel
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- Fall produce at CCG
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- Wild violet seed pods at CCG
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- Uptown Summer assistant Alfonso and intern Peter helped fix the high tunnel door
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- The high tunnel door came off its hinge
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- Wild violet seeds
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- Wild violet seed pods at CCG
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- Using a tarp and a ladder, interns collected a huge basket of mulberries from the trees on the Sanctuary’s campus.
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- A patch of echinacea flowers.
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- Produce from Collard City Growers harvested by Uptown Summer youth includes summer squash, delicata, sugar pie pumpkin, lemon cucumber, greens, eggs, onion, grapes, and a basket of peaches
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- Uptown Summer participant Ciara loves the golden cherry tomatoes grown at Collard City Growers.
