It was a month for the machines, prepping beds, and starting with some cool season crops!

Harvesting and celebrating this month!

We continued harvesting and donating.

Our new Potato Lifter helped us harvest 804 pounds of Potatoes in 3 hours! This same task took 2-3 days of manual digging each season.

June has been the start of our harvest and we are excited to share!

Turner Construction volunteered time and donated $2,000 to help the Rows build a vertical garden.

We are installing fence to cover two acres to prevent pest (deer, rabbits, etc…) and expand our growing space. Materials arrived and we just started the install.

Our cover crop is growing nicely and we are starting our seed selection.

As of August 15, 2021, here at Rows for the Hungry, we have been able to grow and donate 5,200 pounds of food to the MCFOODS food bank, Elijah’s Promise Community Kitchen, and various other places.

Feeding Middlesex County financially supports organizations that feed the hungry.

They raise funds to purchase food and equipment to assist qualifying agencies in procuring, storing, preserving and transporting food and other necessary items to their food insecure neighbors, through MCFOODS, the county food bank.

Here at Rows for the Hungry, we donate a majority of our fresh produce to Elijah’s Promise Community Kitchen in New Brunswick and MCFOODS. We want to spotlight one of these places for our readers and supporters.

At the Rows For The Hungry our lettuce grows well under shade cloth, with frequent harvesting, and succession planting.

As of August 5, 2021, Rows for the Hungry has donated over 3,500 pounds of produce.

We have electrical wiring completed and are currently installing the four inches of insulation on the floor, walls, and ceiling.

Heirloom plants are plants with a history. The seeds are passed down from generation to generation. Many made their way from distant lands, sewn in the hems of of clothing immigrants wore on their journey here. It must have provided comfort looking forward to growing familiar foods in their new homeland. Until the 1930s sharing and selling these heirloom seeds were the primary ways farmers and gardeners procured and planted their crops.

The Master Gardeners of Middlesex County are excited to share that we started a creative endeavor to convert a discarded trailer into a refrigerator.

A garden with a well installed irrigation system will have noticeable benefits. Consistent soil moisture, less water run-off, and minimize stress on plants.

Almost every fruit, vegetable, and flower needs and owes its existence to bees and other pollinators.