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Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast

On July 9, a breakfast on the grounds was hosted at Westbury Community Garden to honor the many volunteers that have helped us keep the garden moving forward during the trying times of the COVID pandemic. The breakfast featured a luscious fruit salad, pastries, and breads from a generous H-E-B donation, bagels and coffee from […]

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Texas Women’s University at WCG

Texas Women’s University Volunteers came out  to help the Westbury Community Garden for our monthly workday on June 25. This was their first visit here. They helped weed and mulch the front Butterfly Beds to help our native pollinator plants survive the long period of high temperatures and drought. We saw Pipevine Caterpillars, native bees […]

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Workday Super Garden Leaders & Members

In breezy 80 degree temps, quickly moving to mid 90’s,  four garden leaders worked for 7 hours and were by far the last remaining gardeners working. (L-R, Wayne Slaikeu, President, Kat Elder, Specialty Gardens Chairman, Don Finley, new gardener and exemplary volunteer and Debbie Gordon, Vice President (not pictured). Debbie was guiding the Scout Troop […]

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Kinkaid High School Volunteers

The Kinkaid High School group came to work with Kat Elder in the WCG Butterfly Beds, starting off the “April Keep America Beautiful” month. The freshmen through seniors were a fantastic group of “Weed Slayers & Landscape Helpers”, working amongst the flowering Texas Bluebonnets and emerging spring wildflowers and Native plants. Betina Wolfowicz, WCG Volunteer […]

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Sunflowers Planted

Six students from Bellaire High School National Honor Society and their advisor, Ms. Jennifer Kuhleman, came out to plant sunflower seeds in the maze on February 26. The students were joined by garden members Debbie Gordon, JaMera Gilbreath, Paul SoRelle, and Betina Wolfowicz.  About 400 sunflower seeds were planted of the very tallest and longest […]

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Village School Volunteers

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 27, six Village School High School volunteers, led by Nicholas Z, came to help Kat at Westbury Community Garden. Together, the group helped plant additional pollinator plants and transplanted plants into the new apiary pollinator bed along the north fence laid the outside bed boundary spread compost mulch around […]

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Work Day, March 13, 2021

Nicholas Zarabas arranged for 4 additional of his high school friends from Village School & School of the Woods to volunteer at WCG on Saturday, 3-13-21 afternoon. They helped me immensely with final preparation of the new Apiary Pollinator Bed readied for planting, some weeding & pruning in the front Butterfly Beds & the B1 […]

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Work Day, Feb 27, 2021

For February Work Day we expected to have a delivery of 12 cu. yards of soil and 225 bags of compost for the garden.  Due to equipment problems, the Farm Dirt Company was only able to deliver 6 cu. yards and had to delay the bagged compost for a week. Luckily, we had over 20 […]

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