Sharing extra produce

A friend and I harvested ~ 20 lbs of chard and collards for the Kitchen Ready's Southside Kitchen today, from the Southside Community Garden, and then continued with another 20 lbs or so of chard, collards, and kale, that I took to the YMCA's Healthy Living food pantry for distribution this afternoon.

one of the boxes from last week's harvest (~ 10 lbs)

Another volunteer took ~ 30 heads of butter lettuce to the BeLoved Shelter, just one of the many organizations who serve meals and provide shelter to folks who need it here in Asheville.

Volunteers have created a productive garden here, with the support of the Housing Authority of Asheville and Green Opportunities, a local non-profit.

It's great to see abundant harvests going to good places.

Planting more greens

I rescued some transplants from my local Ace hardware store yesterday, and planted them today, in newly cleared beds, free of green beans at last.

The transplants were rainbow Swiss chard (looking OK), some very nice looking Pac Choi (which will be taken out by the first hard frost, but I'll enjoy how attractive they are, in the meantime), and some Mizuna (ditto).

Maybe I'll even get a few sugar snap peas from the vines that are now tentatively climbing up the trellises -- it's all about whether the mild weather holds for a while through next week and early November!

It's totally nuts (from a gardening perspective), but we live in changing times (in terms of climate) as well as many other things...