Check Out Front Page of Kingsport Times Newspaper!

Check out the featured article about Harvest of Hope Garden in today's local paper:  front page!!
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Spring Kickoff / Gardening Class: March 9th

Want to learn how to make your own raised beds?

Harvest of Hope Community Garden helps individuals and families in Kingsport,Tennessee grow food for themselves and their community.  The produce from this garden supports feeding the homeless, hungry, and meals on wheels, & supplying local food pantries.

see FeedKingsport.org for more info

Harvest of Hope to be featured in Kingsport Time News

Look for an article about Harvest of Hope to be published in the Kingsport Times News (possibly this Wednesday, Feb 27th).  Keep in mind that sometimes dates are changed, so if it isn't in THIS Wed's paper, it will follow shortly thereafter.

Adding Lime to the Raised Beds

Today, we had a great turnout!  Lime was added to the raised beds & mixed in.

Below is a picture of our leader, Doug Hilton, hard at work.  Doug & Phil's (Phil R. not shown in photo) involvement in the gardens adds a whole new dimension to our outreach.  Doug has agreed to oversee the gardens and has been instrumental in obtaining new sponsors, building the beds and organizing the Master Gardeners to assist in the gardens.  Phil has helped build the beds and will present several training sessions regarding gardening in raised beds.  They are tremendous assets to our garden.

What's left to do in the remaining weeks before our Spring Kickoff/Gardening Class March 9th?  General cleanup & addition of Chat (gravel) around raised beds.

Thanks to all who came today and thanks to local businesses who are lending a hand:  Vulcan (who gave discounts on lime and chat), and Small Miracles horse barn (who gave us compost). Thanks to Nancy for these pictures.

Spring Fever

We've all got Spring Fever!  And no, our gardners don't exactly hibernate in winter :)

Excited about the coming months in the garden, Master Gardners have been busy these past few months building new raised beds, filing with lime & compost (manure blend), and making general preparations.

Here below you can see how the beds, now complete, are raised up from the ground, about 1 and 1/2 feet high, as compared to the 1/2-foot beds that we had last year. (see January 2013 Blog Post for pictures showing construction of these raised beds)

New, Higher Beds 2-20-13

Ray mixing some lime & compost together with the soil. 2-20-13

Bed Building Continues...

Saturday, bed-building work continued in the garden....

Here (above), planks are being joined to create frames...

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(Above & Below)Then comes putting the frames in the ground; here a previously large bed is split into smaller beds.

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Then, soil gets transported to each frame to be filled into the garden beds.

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A great day's work!  It is said that by the look of the Forsythia & Daffodils, we may have an early Spring... so it is good that the garden modifications are getting done early.

Thanks to all who came out:  Doug H,  Nancy W, Phil R, Johnny S, Ray C, Earl H, Arnold & Sheila H, & Megan S.

Garden Beds: Beginning to Raise Some of the Beds

I drove by the garden this morning and some of the beds have been built up (by Doug and crew) -- Thanks to Doug Hilton and Phil Ramey (both master gardeners) and their crew for the work, and AARP and United Way for the money that made buying the supplies possible.