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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…