Student Gardening Club gets a mention in Richmond Magazine

Read the article here

Our name isn't quite right in the article, but what can you do?

Price List, July

Finally! Student Gardening Club has loads of fresh, organic, and local fruits, vegetables, and herbs for sale. All proceeds go to directly fund the project (particularly our water bill in this drought-y weather). Prices may vary throughout the season.

We do deliveries as well as have a booth at the William Byrd House Market. This is located near the intersection of Idlewood Ave and Cherry St and occurs Tuesdays from 3:30 to 7.

Soon we will have eggplant, melons, beans, blackberries, grape tomatoes, and a whole slew of heirloom vegetable varieties available. We are also working on canning salsa, sauces, and pesto, as well as baking herbed breads. Herb selection will be expanded within the next week.

Tours of the garden available! We are working for the garden to serve the community through outreach and education. Read our blog http://vcustudentgarden.blogspot.com for updates or e-mail us at vcustudentgarden@gmail.com

cucumbers $1.25 ea
zucchini/squash $1.25/ lb
slicing tomatoes $2.50/lb
banana peppers $.75 ea
green leaf lettuce $1.50/lb
elephant garlic $1.00/bulb

basil (large leaf) $3.00/bunch (it's a lot of basil)
basil (Greek) $4.00/bunch
lavender $3.00/bunch
parsley $3.00/bunch
oregano $2.00/bunch
mint $3.00/bunch

Please tell all your friends!!

Farmers' Market

Summer harvest is coming in like crazy! We're selling herbs and veggies now at the William Byrd House Market, which is every Tuesday from 3:30 to 7. Yesterday we did well and had a really encouraging amount of interest in the student garden project.

So proud of the work we're doing

Carrots, snow peas, pickling and slicing cucumbers, tomatoes, herbs, strawberries, blackberries, and hot peppers...

Today I was eating a salad and said to my co-workers "I grew this!"

Broad Appetit

In the spirit of keeping it local, this Sunday is Broad Appetit. It's a food festival on Broad St (several blocks following Belvidere towards Shockoe Bottom) featuring only local restaurants. There are demos (last year, I ate a bug as part of one!) and music and naturally, lots of delicious food. It's an inexpensive event with all items under $5 and a fun way to try out different restaurants around town.

Hope to see you there!

http://www.broadappetit.com/

Produce for Sale!

Everyone, we're going to have produce for sale in the next two weeks. We will be doing delivery within the city and you can place orders on-line through our interactive price list. Once we have this created, it will be posted here and on our Facebook group. How can you argue with local, organically grown, and inexpensive produce delivered right to your doorstep!

We are also currently working on obtaining a booth at the South of the James Farmer's Market. That particular market is on Saturdays and will most likely be manned by yours truly.

A few of the things we will have available immediately include several kinds of lettuces, snap peas, snow peas, basil, rosemary, lemon balm, lavender, and various varieties of tomatoes.

In other big news, we are planting grapes this weekend! We have 4 different varieties and will "teach" them to climb up the fence that creates the border between Elaine's yard and our plot. These will not produce until next year, but it's still a very exciting addition of course!

Rain, rain go away...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I had just about forgotten what the sun was like it has rained so much the past few weeks. Now it's looking like we've got a break from that (where are my May flowers!?) and school is out for us VCUers so it's time to work hard!

If you've been out there lately, you'll notice we've got quite a few greens ready for picking so go ahead and enjoy the "fruits" of your labor!