Making three concentrations of a "natural" cleaner (Thieves), to test along with Lysol, hydrogen peroxide, bleach, and isopropanol next week.

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Odd Potato Lineup

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I'm covered in straw and herb debris out the wazoo, but here's to bringing Community Roots full circle from forming a nonprofit to our first day of sales! Everything is more difficult when done with community service, sustainable methods, and democratic proceases, but we did it! Here's to smart growth done ethically!

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Packed up and ready for Community Roots's first herb sale! (Grown by community service volunteers from our local Merit Court)

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I came home to a sweet thank you note for helping with river day in @schuttebonnie 's class! Nice pickmeup!

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Trying something new for lab to help students understand the lab manual. At least it was fun for me to draw!

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Had a great time breaking bread with the community gardeners! Got eat so many delicious foods made with garden grown ingredients!

Pressing Flowers From Our Field

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We have signage. Community Roots is taking over! If you rent a growing plot or greenhouse growing bench, you can also have a mailbox/sign out front with your name or business on it! Interested in incubating a small garden market business, we can help! Contact us about how this innovative shared space can help you. CommunityRootsOhio@gmail.com

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Still gleaning!

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The garden plots may not look like much, but all the foxtail grass ferried a secret bounty to harvest, hiding it from animal (and human) theft! 

Still enough good fruits that can be eaten and a ton of seeds! Yay for a possible future publicly shared seed library! We'll even be able to save seeds from every heirloom tomato variety we received from Skipping Stone Farms - except for one. Not sure we had any mortgage lifelter fruit. 

Those weeds turned out to be a good thing and another way gardening does not have to be all or nothing, black and white, etc. Sometimes it can be a good thing to let the weeds have some space; may lower your yield a little, but barring any communicable pestilence those weeds might give something whereas with then you would have had nothing 😕😀

All survived the frost!

Temp went down as far as 36 F. All under the row cover went well. Although the cover on the liverworts (pictured right) blew off, so we'll have to affix that eventually.

All the amaranth, berries (gogi, rasp, and goose), euonymus, vinca, petunias, chard, sorrel, and sage did fine without cover.

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Working on lanterns for the Community Roots potluck this Saturday! Are you a Knox County gardener? Interested in our local food system? Join us this weekend! Message me for details...

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