We are now a Garden Partner with Compost Now. Compost (produced from sustainable resources like your food scraps) is an essential part of a healthy food system and a vital part of the success of farms like ours. Compost Now customers can now share their compost...
We are beyond excited to announce that Sweet Peas Urban Gardens is now located at The Well Fed Community Garden! Tami Purdue, owner and operator of Sweet Peas Urban Gardens, and her shipping container of microgreens are taking The Well Fed Community Garden by storm. From...
There is a part of the Well Fed Community Garden that is always open to the public, and that is our pollinator garden. When you are taking a walk down Athens Drive feel free to pop into the pollinator garden, enjoy the beauty of the...
Potato harvest time has come to the Well Fed Community Garden! This year we partnered with NC State Extension and a potato breeder at NC State to try out some fun and different varieties. Some were new varieties and some were typical potato varieties, such...
One of our focuses here at the Well Fed Community Garden is environmental sustainability. We use organic practices, focus on building the soil versus depleting it, and have a pollinator garden to help our local pollinators and birds have sustenance and materials to build their...
Winter brings cold temperatures, freezing rain, snow, ice, and wind. It can be hard to keep your core warm. Although layering clothing is key, we have some fun ways we like to stay warm here at the Well Fed Community Garden that we would like...
Microgreens are the young seedlings of edible plants. They are tiny and yet packed with nutrients. Here at the Well Fed Community Garden, we are usually growing 20 or more trays of microgreens in our small greenhouse. They are easy and quick to grow. We plant...
There is frost on the ground and it is feeling like winter at the Well Fed Community Garden! But the activity does not slow down here; there is always work to be done. As always, we start by feeding the chickens. As the farm dog,...
Here at the Well Fed Community Garden we have a diversity of vegetables, fruit brambles and trees, and flowers growing, and are always open to learning and growing new crops. Our latest learning adventure has been growing turmeric and ginger! Turmeric and ginger can help...
October brought us the last of the summer vegetables, sweet potatoes, lots of greens, and our first harvest of turmeric and ginger! With the temperature cooling down, our peppers hung in there until this past week. Our volunteers worked hard collecting over 70 pounds of peppers,...
