Saturday, May 21, WCG beekeepers, Steve Ewing and Becky Stemper, celebrated World Bee Day by setting up a booth at Urban Harvest Farmers Market to showcase WCG’s apiary. A frame of working bees from one of our hives was placed in a ventilated plexiglas case so visitors could see the bees doing their work. Both […]
Archive | May, 2022
“Gardening Within Reach” Eagle Scout Project
Westbury Community Garden owes many thanks to Eagle Scout candidate, Case B., who chose WCG’s “Gardening Within Reach” program for his Eagle project. “Gardening Within Reach” is an ongoing effort to build more two-level sitting/standing garden beds in the E-row for garden members who have knee, hip, or shoulder problems that make gardening in an […]
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 […]
Ohio State Alumni Club Earth Day
We were SO delighted to have the Ohio State Alumni Club of Houston at the WCG on our big Earth Day Workday for the first time! This enthusiastic, hard working, friendly and fun group helped Kat Elder, Shelly and Roy Johnson with heavy weeding, pruning and mulching in the front Butterfly Beds in prep for […]