Once again Westbury Community Garden members had a great time representing the garden at the bi-annual Willow Waterhole MusicFest on October 30. The theme, of course, was Halloween! Kids of all ages loved making corn husk dolls at the craft table. Fundraiser donation gifts included Lone Star Bee’s Hot Honey, YUM’s herb-infused sweet and savory […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Workday in the North 40 Orchard 2/26/22
The Teach For America Volunteer Group joined our WCG members in preparing the orchard beds for planting replacement fruit trees at the March, 2022, workday. The remaining roots of the frozen trees from 2/15/2021 Winter Storm Uri were removed, weeds were removed, most of the bed’s diameters were extended, a grass barrier was installed and […]
Sunflower Maze 2022 Underway
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 […]
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 […]