Summer of 2025

The Greensboro Community Garden, at the heart of the village in front of Town Hall, continues to nurture our neighbors with FREE organic produce from July through September every year. In the 2025 growing season our ten active volunteers planted, tended, harvested, and distributed 334 pounds of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Beginning on July 2,  our earliest harvest to date, through October 4 when the “beds were put to bed,” herbs, lettuces, spinach, arugula, Swiss chard, kale, radishes, garlic, turnips, beets, snap peas, carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, along with patty pan, delicata, and yellow summer squash kept the volunteer gardeners busy. In total approximately 370 volunteer hours were required to produce and deliver all that food!

In addition to growing and distributing vegetables to the Hardwick Area Food Pantry and Smith’s Grocery in Greensboro Bend where the produce is offered for free to the community, Community Garden volunteers also participated in local events. On August 5 and September 2, garden volunteers donated vegetables and helped chop, cook, and arrange flowers for two of the free Greensboro Community Meals in Fellowship Hall. Fresh green beans and dip were offered at the annual Bend Block Party and picnic on August 8, and on August 16 garden volunteers facilitated Greensboro Community Garden Bingo with more fresh vegetables as prizes at Greensboro’s Art Fest on the town green.

Volunteers this year included — Jenny Bayles, Carol Calcagni, Heidi DeBrino, Joan Feffer, Cathy Hansen, Betsy Hunt, Beth Meacham, Miriam Rogers, Sara Slater, and Liz Steel with additional support from Carol Bayles, Molly Cook, Emma Janicki, and Ed Sunday-Winters.

We are grateful for the continued support, encouragement, and appreciation of the Greensboro Association and the broader local community.