Our first 100-degree days have arrived, marking the beginning of a true—and very welcome—Texas summer. The garden has completed its seasonal shift into summer, transforming into a jungle of large, green-leaved okra, vining sweet potatoes covering entire beds and pathways, and the cheerful buzz of our newest garden additions: honey bees. Earlier this month, we received two beehives from our partners at ArkEarth, bringing more than 22,000 busy pollinators to the garden. Each mo

Garden Production and Donations The garden has experienced a wonderfully hot and wet beginning to summer! The plants are absolutely loving the warm days and abundance of moisture with fantastic potato, cucumber, and eggplant harvests. By the beginning of June, we harvested double the amount of potatoes from last year. A total of 182 pounds of Red LaSoda, Yukon gold, and Kennebec potatoes were dug out of the muddy soil and dried before heading off to our food pantry partners.

Garden Production and Donations We are excited to share with our community the wonderful spring the garden is having! The garden looks wonderful and is having a great production year. The garden planted over 1500 onions in January and have harvested over 150 pounds of onions so far. This is an increase of 100 lbs from last year. The real excitement will come in June when we harvest everything including potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and eggplants. Our total

Greetings from the Giving Garden! We have had a great start to the new year. The garden is enjoying the mild winter and early spring with weekly harvests of spinach, collard greens, kale, lettuce, cilantro, turnips, carrots, and radishes. All donations continue to go to the community through our partners at WestAid Food Pantry and Las Vegas Trail Rise Community Center. January and February are a busy time as we prepare for the spring and summer growing seasons. This year, the

Happy Holidays from Ridglea Giving Garden! We want to celebrate with you all by sharing the garden's highlights from the year! Together, we produced and donated 2508 pounds of healthy produce to the community. We had over 1000 hours from volunteers. Groups included schools, nonprofits, companies, youth groups, and community members. Facilitated educational field trips and professional development days with schools from 13 Independent School Districts. Planted 12 additional f

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Ridglea Giving Garden was featured in a story by the Fort Worth Report. Read it here https://fortworthreport.org/2024/08/31/fort-worth-ch...

Ridglea Giving Garden's co-manager, Joey Hughes, was featured in Delve's article. Read it here: https://delveexperiences.com/blogs/joey-h...