On Tuesday, October 7, Westbury Community Garden will once again host a National Night Out event. National Night Out aims to build relationships between neighbors and law enforcement to strengthen community ties and promote crime prevention and public safety. We are expecting to have representatives from Houston Police Department, Harris County Precinct 5, City Council…
A new committee has been added to the maintenance working groups of Westbury Community Garden – Herbs! Westbury Community Garden has long had two garden plots (C2 and D2) dedicated to growing and learning about medicinal and culinary herbs. In a recent reorganization, the garden is making work on the Herb beds an eligible maintenance…
March 22, 2025 will mark an important milestone at Westbury Community Garden. WCG will celebrate 15 years as an urban agriculture green space in Westbury. As a testament to our success, among our 77 garden members, 12 are founding members who joined and built the community garden in 2010! Three others aren’t currently gardening but…
A festival is coming to Westbury Community Garden on March 22, from Noon to 3:00 PM! And the best news… It is free and open to the public. Come out and browse the many exhibitor tents to learn about various gardening topics, permaculture, landscaping with native plants, coastal prairies and wetlands, Monarchs and milkweed, nutrition…
Have you ever wondered actually how much produce can be grown on a 100 square foot plot? WCG raised allotment gardens are roughly 4′ x 25′ – that’s a 100 square foot plot. This study was conducted on two such plots leased by yours truly, your WCG President, and my garden partners. THE CROPS In…
2025 promises to be a big year at Westbury Community Garden. Not only are we celebrating our 15th Anniversary with the Founders’ Breakfast fundraiser followed by a neighborhood festival, we are very close to finishing the engineering studies and permitting documents to implement a big piece of our Master Plan! In 2025, we plan to…
Westbury Community Garden held its first Plant Sale Fundraiser just in time for cool season planting on October 12. The sale was part of Bayou City Community Market located in the parking lot of Westbury Baptist Church, 10425 Hillcroft, near the corner of Willowbend Blvd. The market is held on the second and fourth Saturday mornings from…
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, was the first time we’ve celebrated National Night Out (NNO) at Westbury Community Garden. We hope to make it an annual event! National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live. National Night Out enhances…
On Friday, September 27, a group of volunteers from Westbury met the Houston Wilderness staff at an empty lot on Cartagena Street. The lot was purchased by the city after Hurricane Harvey and had already been excavated to produce a shallow ditch to drain stormwater from the street into the Willow Waterhole Bayou. Houston Wilderness…
On June 1, Westbury Community Garden held its 8th Annual Tomato Tasting. It seemed that tomatoes ripened earlier this year. Climate change? Though some tomato varieties were already spent for the season, 20 tomatoes were presented for the comparative taste test. About 45 people took part in the tasting and voting. The winner in the…