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Urban Harvest HUB Garden

As one of the well-established community gardens in Houston, Westbury Community Garden has been appointed to be an Urban Harvest HUB garden site. There are several Urban Harvest HUB gardens around the city. A HUB garden serves as a regional center for newer community gardens to meet for Urban Harvest education and other events. There are 38 community and school gardens in the WCG HUB group.

On Saturday, March 4, from 8 AM to 11 AM, HUB garden members came out to learn about planting tomatoes and pick up tomato and pepper transplants.

It was great to mix and mingle with folks from other community gardens and science teachers from school gardens.

 

 

 

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