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- The squash patch in Collard City Growers photographs well.
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- The squash patch in Collard City Growers photographs well.
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- Planting elephant ear bulbs at Collard City Growers
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- Uptown Summer Assistant Alfonso in the garden
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- Getting your hands in the dirt can be good for your soul
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- Kohlrabi grown at Collard City Growers awaits pickling
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- The kohlrabi harvest was preserved by Uptown Summer youth
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- Preparing kohlrabi to be pickled
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- On a rainy morning, Uptown Summer took the time to preserve some kohlrabi from Collard City Growers
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- Pickling is an ancient and easy method of food preservation
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- Pickling kohlrabi in the Sanctuary on a rainy summer morning
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- The kohlrabi was grown in Collard City Growers
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- The Uptown Summer youth took the pickled kohlrabi home with them
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- Using dill vinegar to preserve kohlrabi. The dill and kohlrabi were grown in Collard City Growers
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- Easy refrigerator pickled vegetables: slice vegetables, 1 T sugar, 2 t salt, dill, spices, 1 part vinegar, 2 parts water.
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- Collard City Growers welcomes many friendly visitors, like Nayroo.
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- Sweeping up brush cuttings in front of the Sanctuary on 6th AVE.
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- Cleaning up a hedge outside of the Sanctuary on 6th AVE.
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- Saving seeds from over-wintered collard greens grown in their namesake, Collard City Growers.
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- Eggs from Collard City Growers chickens & quail
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- On a tour of the Sanctuary’s permaculture campus, we’re reminded why green space is so precious in the city.
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- Tomatillos growing in Collard City Growers
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- Kale growing in Collard City Growers
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- A monarch butterfly upon an echinacea flower in Collard City Growers. The garden hosts a diversity of life in Troy’s North Central neighborhood.
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- Uptown Summer participants help tend tomato plants inside the hoop house at Collard City Growers.
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- Uptown Summer participant Ciara loves the golden cherry tomatoes grown at Collard City Growers.
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- Sisters Taria and Angeles in the sunshine at Collard City Growers.
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- Collard City Growers added raised beds and small livestock inside the hoophouse in 2020.
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- The chickens are a source of delight and valuable to the biodynamic compost system used at Collard City Growers.
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- Uptown Summer participant Amajea helps care for the chickens at CCG by helping to clean their nesting boxes.
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- Uptown Summer participant Angeles captured this monarch butterfly resting on a blooming squash plant at CCG.
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- Uptown Summer participant Amajea snapped this photo of bolted greens and their seeds in CCG.
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- CCG Garden Coordinator Alexis holds a milkweed pod. Milkweed, the only food of the monarch butterfly caterpillar, is edible to humans if prepared correctly.
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- A milkweed plant in CCG. A designated stand of milkweed in the garden supports the endangered monarch butterflies who visit each year.
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- Grape vines grow on a trellis at Collard City Growers. The grapes on this vine are particularly sweet.
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- Uptown Summer participants harvested fresh food nearly every day from CCG. Underripe blackberries and a stand of bee balm can be seen on the right.
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- Collard City Growers boasts a sizeable blackberry bush in its northeastern corner.
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- CCG produced an abundance of strawberries, blackberries, and cherries in 2020.
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- Uptown Summer participants harvest blackberries to snack on
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- Blackberries may stain your fingers but they contain potent antioxidants
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- Uptown Summer split their time between Collard City Growers and producing media in a socially distanced way inside the Sanctuary. The Sanctuary entrance sports a hand-painted reminder about the importance of wearing masks.
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- Strawberry plants in Collard City Growers produce some of the most delicious fruit we’ve ever had.
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- The southern border of CCG sports vigorous grapevines.
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- Uptown Summer participant Tarea captured blooming anise hyssop in CCG.
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- A bush of black-eyed Susans pops in Collard City Growers.
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- A stand of echinacea blooms year after year in Collard City Growers.
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- The different breeds of chickens at Collard City Growers provide a beautiful variety of colored eggs.
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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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- With grapevines growing on the fences, some maintenance is required before things get overgrown.
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- Grape leaves are edible and delicious. Prepared in a brine, you can stuff them with all sorts of things – from goat cheese to salmon.
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- Collard City Growers produced cucumbers and squash.
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- The different breeds of chickens at Collard City Growers provide a beautiful variety of colored eggs.
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- Uptown Summer participant Angeles captured blooming anise hyssop and chamomile near the gate at CCG.
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- A residential house near CCG is serendipitously painted mint gree.
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- Uptown Summer participant Taria works with lines in her photography.
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- Arugula seedlings growing in a planter at CCG.
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- Sanctuary interns gardened alongside Uptown Summer in CCG
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- Uptown Summer participants harvesting collard greens, the namesake of Collard City Growers
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- Uptown Summer participants found these photo-worthy green grapes growing on a fence at CCG.
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- A lemon cucumber hanging out and waiting to be harvested in CCG.
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- Uptown Summer participant Ciara found a bunch of green grapes while gardening at CCG.
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- Yellow squash amongst green foliage in Collard City Growers.
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- Pears looking tempting on the pear tree at CCG.
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- Uptown Summer participants harvest peaches at CCG.
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- A plants’-eye view of gardening.
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- Is it true that you are what you eat, Jamel?
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- Just outside CCG is bustling 6th Avenue in North Central Troy.
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- Uptown Summer worked across the block on the Sanctuary’s campus.
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- Peaches are one key to happiness.
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- You really have to get in there to get the peaches sometimes.
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- There’s plenty of mint growing in the garden, which we use to make mint tea.
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- The garden makes a visual contrast to the pavement and brick buildings of 6th Avenue.
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- Uptown Summer participant Taria picking peaches hanging over the fence.
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- A row of collards greets CCG guests just inside the gate.
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- Chamomile from Collard City Growers was harvested for the tea sachets offered at the 2020 Black August People’s Clinic.
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- Purple basil was one of the varieties of the crowd favorite herb grown in CCG this year.
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- Squash blossoms are a favorite of bees!
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- Orange lillies pop in August. On the top left is an invasive ailanthus tree, obviously recognizable by its Skippy peanut butter scent!
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- Elephant ear bulbs, planted by the Uptown Summer youth, were donated to CCG by Harvesting History.
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- An elephant ear bulb beginning to show!
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- We love squash of all sizes and shapes!
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- A sunflower blooming next to the carriage house.
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- In the fall, CCG’s sunflowers offer food that attract birds, like bluebirds and chickadees.
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- We welcomed Astra to the Sanctuary family this year!
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- A buff orpington (front) and a black australorp (back) in the chicken coop at CCG. The chicken coop got a redesign this year to incorporate the chickens into the compost system.
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- Uptown Summer youth worked with macro photography during the program.
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- Sunflowers pop up all over the garden, spread by falling seeds and birds. Sunflowers are hyperaccumulators and take up lead and metals from the soil.
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- A patch of echinacea flowers.
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- Experimenting with macrophotography, Genesis captured blackberries at varying stages of ripeness.
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- Experimenting with macrophotography, Genesis captured blackberries at varying stages of ripeness.
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- Baby collards
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- One of the earliest perennials, Asparagus becomes a forest in the summer.
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- The elephant ears planted on day one were blooming by week four.
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- Alfonso holds some produce harvested from CCG.
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- Alfonso holds some produce from the garden.
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- Uptown Summer youth pick some collards in CCG.
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- Blackberries and collard greens in Collard city Growers!
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- Alfonso worked to get the hoop house door open for us. The wood had swollen shut with moisture!
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- Collard City Growers coordinator Alexis holds a yellow squash grown from seed at the garden in North Central Troy.
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- Blackberries continuously ripen for about a month in CCG. They go great in a cobbler with fresh peaches.
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- Green hydrangeas growing along the fence at Collard City Growers.
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