The Magical Sunflower Maze At Westbury Community Garden faced several challenges in its inaugural year. For the 2022 season, the Sunflower Committee is getting an early start to address soil fertility, irrigation, and weed issues that hampered the project last summer. We hope to have a bumper crop of sunflowers in the maze with fewer […]
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Urban Harvest Annual Harvest Celebration
On November 13, WCG hosted Urban Harvest’s Annual Harvest Celebration. The luncheon and award ceremony celebrates all community gardens in the Urban Harvest network and awards gardeners from across the city for extraordinary community garden contributions. The Harvest Celebration featured box lunches from Local Foods, herbs, vegetable seedlings, and seed give-aways, garden tours, and door-prizes […]
Girl Scouts Earn Gardening Badges
A troop of Daisy (K – 1) and Junior Girl Scouts (grades 4-5) visited WCG on November 6 for an afternoon of outdoor learning that fulfilled Gardening badge requirements for both troops. The girls walked about the garden identifying plants by sight and smell, learned about composting, completed a weeding and mulching service project, and […]
Honeybees On Display at Willow Waterhole MusicFest
The Westbury Community Garden was fortunate to again have booth space at the Willow Waterhole MusicFest on October 30. This one-day event was the first in two years due to COVID-19 cancellations. The gorgeous weather, awesome music, and outstanding food trucks made for an super-fun, family event. WCG’s booth featured our new Apiary. Beekeeper, Steve […]
Fall Seed Collections Are Here!
WCG members and friends and neighbors of the garden are invited to reserve the 2021 Fall Seed Collection by sending an email to seeds@westburycommunitygarden.org. The fall packet contains 29 varieties for just $15 (Member discounted price $12.) There are 2 specialty vegetables available in limited quantity. Beet, Touchstone Gold $1.00Kolrhabi, Terek $1.50 Additionally, there are […]
Update: The Magical Sunflower Maze Debuts In September
UPDATE: The Magical Sunflower Maze at Westbury Community Garden is closed for the season. Mother Nature brought an abrupt end to the project when Tropical Storm Nicholas flattened the sunflower field. September 18 and 25 Bouquet Days are also canceled. WCG is already planning improvements for the sunflower field and will bring the maze back […]
Make A Sunflower Maze Reservation
UPDATE: The Magical Sunflower Maze at Westbury Community Garden is closed for the season. Mother Nature brought an abrupt end to the project when Tropical Storm Nicholas flattened the sunflower field. September 18 and 25 Bouquet Days are also canceled. WCG is already planning improvements for the sunflower field and will bring the maze back […]
SeedMoney Challenge Matching Grant Fundraiser
Thanks so much to all of our supporters for helping us reach our initial funding goal within the first week of the 30 day #SeedMoney Challenge! You inspired us to think even bigger about what we can accomplish next year and we set a new “stretch goal” of $7,500. We didn’t quite make the stretch […]
Garden Produce Donations
In May and June our gardens are in luscious, full production mode. There may be more vegetables a family can eat, freeze, pickle, can, or dehydrate. What to do with all your extras? Many gardeners bestow their neighbors and friends with extra zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers. During May, 2020, groups of WCG gardeners pooled their […]
WCG 10th Anniversary Celebration Postponed
As a precautionary measure, Westbury Community Garden is postponing our March 28 10th Anniversary Celebration. Many city and state officials desire proactive steps to guard the health of our communities. WCG will post again, when a new date is scheduled in the fall. We look forward to seeing you on our new date.