The Well Fed Community Garden

06/21/2023

Happy National Pollinator Week! We have native plants! started their native plant nursery at the garden last fall. There are lots of varieties to choose from including columbine, milkweeds, coneflowers, and bee balms. Order online for pickup this Saturday or come out to the farm stand Saturday from 10am-1pm and pick some out for your green space.

06/16/2023

We prepared some small bouquets for those of you wanting to just swing by and get some beautiful blooms Saturday. Grab these or pick your own during our farm stand 10am-1pm.

06/14/2023

It’s amazing what you can do with a little bit of land. The Well Fed Garden sits on 1.5 acres in southwest Raleigh. Our market garden where we produce annual crops is only 1/3 acre. Look how much beauty and produce we can grow!

Come see it for yourself this Saturday. Now is such a beautiful time at the garden with so much in bloom. We are open between 10am-1pm. Pick your own flower bouquet and grab some veggies while you’re here. We can’t wait to see you in the garden!

06/10/2023

Don’t sleep on our farm stand today! Lots of yummy stuff plus those beautiful marigolds.

And cut your own flower bouquet when you come!

06/07/2023

The online shop is open! Place your orders for pickup at our garden Saturdays 10:30am-1pm.

06/07/2023

We don’t want to put anyone in danger. We have a red air quality alert in Raleigh until midnight tonight so we are cancelling our volunteer session. Limit your time outdoors today!

06/06/2023

This is the place to be on Saturday mornings! Our monthly garden tour is this Saturday from 11-11:30, grab some veggies during our farm stand and cut your own flower bouquet 10am-1pm. See you in the garden!!

05/31/2023

Online shop is open! Find lots of goodies you can pre-order for Saturday pickup at the garden. Order now until tomorrow (Thursday) at noon. All of this and more! Link in our bio.

05/30/2023

We’re trying something new! Come on out to the garden Saturdays during our farm stand between 10am-1pm to pick your own flower bouquet. We will show you how to harvest your flowers and provide clippers for you. We can wrap up your bouquet in some paper for you to bring home or bring your own vase if you want to get really fancy with it!
Smaller bouquets will be $10 with larger ones for $20.

05/10/2023

We might be a little late than our original plan but hey, that’s okay! Join us this Saturday morning between 10am-1pm for our season opening day of our farm stand! We will have lots of yummy veggies and local eggs available for you. The farm stand will be open every Saturday from now until October from 10am-1pm.

And this Saturday begins our monthly garden tour. Sign up at the link in our bio to join the tour beginning at 11. We’ll show you all of the things growing in the garden right now! We will host garden tours every second Saturday from now through October as well.

Hope to see you in the garden!

05/02/2023

Farm stand prep!!!
We had some awesome volunteers out today from who helped us put in this new path. We are working on setting up a better shopping experience for our farm stand and clear pathways are the first step!

Save the date for our opening day of our farm stand Saturday, May 13th from 10am-1pm.

We want you all to be able to come to the garden and enjoy your time here. Starting May 13th we will have our farm stand open every Saturday from 10am-1pm. We will also host monthly garden tours on Saturday mornings as well so you can learn more about the garden. We’re hoping to add more Saturday activities at the garden so stay tuned…

05/02/2023

We hope you can join us for our new volunteer session starting next week. Tuesdays are a great day for individuals, families, friends, and groups to come out to the garden.

If you are a group larger than 5, please reach out and let us know you are coming!

Our weekly volunteer opportunities are:
Tuesdays from 10am-12pm
Wednesdays from 5-7 pm

04/07/2023

Here comes the rainbow! We’ll have so many beautiful colors on our table tomorrow to brighten up these cool, cloudy spring days. Hope to see you from 8am-12pm!!

04/06/2023

Kohlrabi color combo is 💯

03/30/2023

The farmers market season is here! This Saturday is the start of the regular market season. We love seeing you all each week. If you haven’t been to the market, come by and say hi! We’ll be at from 8am-12pm with lots of delicious veggies for you. Come out and support our garden and all the other awesome vendors at the market. It’s a great way to start your weekend 🌞

03/18/2023

Meet our winter salad mix. It’s packed full of delicious brassicas. Who says you can’t have bright, beautiful veggies in the winter??? The star of the show is tokyo bekana. We add in some tatsoi, mizuna and top of off with purple mustard in the ruby streaks variety. We will only have it for two weeks and then we transition to our spring mix so head to the tomorrow between 9-12 to get you some!

03/18/2023

Meet our winter salad mix. It’s packed full of delicious brassicas. Who says you can’t have bright, beautiful veggies in the winter??? The star of the show is tokyo bekana. We add in some tatsoi, mizuna and top of off with purple mustard in the ruby streaks variety. We’ll only have it for two weeks and then we transition to our spring mix so head to the tomorrow between 9-12 to get you some!

03/09/2023

Lots of transformations happening around the garden! Come out and help this Saturday from 12-3 pm. We are going to tackle more weeds in the pollinator garden and do some invasive species removal in our wooded area. Wear closed toe shoes and pants if you want to help in the woods!

02/23/2023

CUTWORMS ugh!!! We have been busy (well, mostly Charlotte) hunting for cutworms in the top 1 inch of the soil in our high tunnel. They can do some serious damage - wiped out about 120 bok choy plants in 4 days. We are trying aluminum collars on our second planting to see if we can keep them from killing this round. Other no-till growers, what do you do for cutworms?

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02/11/2023

Thanks to everyone that came out to help in the garden today!!! We got a ton of stuff done and had a great time with you!

02/09/2023

Wanna learn how to prune fruit trees? Come out to our workday this Saturday afternoon from 12:30-3:30 pm. We’ll be taking on our beautiful fig trees. Bring pruners if you have them!

02/07/2023

Planting has started at the garden for the spring vegetable crops. We seeded our green onions on Jan. 10 and they are starting to take off! Starting to see spinach sprout and lots more greens to follow.

We can’t wait to see you all at the garden this year! We are busy planning different activities for you all, including resuming our volunteer sessions on Wednesday evenings in a few weeks.

02/03/2023

Come on out next weekend to lend a hand at the garden. We will be pruning the fig trees and getting some weeding done in the pollinator garden.

If you have pruners, pruning saws, gloves or other garden tools, feel free to bring them. We will provide tools and snacks too!

1321 Athens Drive, Raleigh
12:30pm-3:30pm
Saturday, Feb. 11

02/02/2023

01/13/2023

Lots of work still happens in the garden during the winter. One of our tasks now is pruning our perennial plants in the pollinator garden and food forest to prepare them for spring renewal. The goal of winter pruning is to bring lots of new growth once the plants break dormancy. Here we pruned our camellia sinensis (tea bushes) so they will put off lots more new growth this year. The new tips are what is harvested to make tea.

01/11/2023

Excited for 2023! We can’t wait to see you back in the garden this year. We are starting back with our Thursday morning volunteer sessions from 10-12pm.

Next week we have an additional opportunity to help on Monday, January 16. Come out and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life with us as we work together and grow together. We’ll be working from 10:30am-1:30pm. Snacks and water provided. Bring your friends and family!

12/19/2022

We want to wish you all a safe and happy holiday season. We have had a blast this year working with you in the garden and getting to know you at the

We are closed until the new year. We will be back in 2023 and can’t wait to see you in the garden!!

12/16/2022

We have shrooms! We inoculated black gum logs last spring with a cold weather shiitake variety. They are just starting to really fruit. So cool to have edible things that love this cold, rainy weather!

12/02/2022

Last Farm stand of the season!
2:30pm-5:30 (note early closing)

Carrots
Salad Mix
Radishes
Green onions
Salad Turnips
Cilantro
Dill

We thought we could hold on 3 more weeks but alas, we are wrapping up the farm stand this week. Swing by between 2:30-5:30 pm (note early closing time) to grab some veggies. No eggs this week.

See you next year!!

11/24/2022

Giving thanks on this day for the land on which we grow food that nourishes our bodies. Thank you to those that stewarded this land first. The Lumbee, Skahruhreh/Tuscarora and the Manu: Yį Įsuwa.

We also give thanks for the funny-shaped, cracked, funky vegetables that come out of our garden. They might not be what we’re all used to seeing in the grocery store but they sure taste great! And they deserve to be highlighted on our table today just as any other food does. 😋

May today be a day you all give thanks for the strange, irregular, different, diverse, beautiful people in this world. Our differences make us stronger and wonderful! 🌍 💗