Healing Hope Urban Gardens

02/02/2025

Starting the clean out of the greenhouse with Farmer Obar; planting seeds using my new soil blocker 😁.

I was also channeling my inner Mark incorporating my home made worm castings into the soil mix.

Sunday chores in February will prepare us for a bountiful and efficient growing season to come May!!

Last pic: not much happening on the plot right now but just wait until May/June.

31/01/2025

21/01/2025

Check out the new blog post from . So many great opportunities for the youth of Petersburg to engage in.

https://petersburgisgrowing.org/f/%E2%80%9Cgreater-is-the-goal%E2%80%9D-campaign-sowing-seeds-growing-community

19/01/2025

Made butter from scratch for the hell of it! 🤷🏾‍♀️😁
Learning new skills monthly

Heavy whipping cream
Maldon sea salt flakes

18/01/2025

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25/12/2024

I blended some of the ginger and turmeric I grew with local raw honey, added in juice from one lemon and black pepper. The older I get the more these joints and muscles hurt 🤣 so this will be great. I had a born day this month and even though I feel great most days, going thru war and multiple deployments tends to age your body beyond your actual years.

It is important that we take care of ourselves just as much as we take care of others. I choose to intentionally grow food that is both medicinal and good to eat for my community and myself.

Of course nothing goes to waste so the solids will be dehydrated for powder

16/12/2024

I grew turmeric this year on my plot ! Got the rhizomes from

Excited to keep growing and learning about this amazing plant🌱

08/12/2024

Hey Y'all! Tomorrow is our last market of the season. Come out and see me and the other amazing vendors.

I will also have something new on the table from this year's harvests 😁🙌🏾💚

Bring the kids to see Santa 🎅🏿

06/11/2024

26/09/2024

This is my hot pepper appreciation post! If you know me, you know hot peppers were my spicy first love ❤️. I have grown spicy peppers from all over the world in the past 15 years.

This year I grew jalapeno, habanero, and serrano, with one orange scotch bonnet thrown in for fun 😁🌶️. The plan is to grow my jalapeno and habanero every year and add in a different pepper each year.

All of the peppers were grown on my plot using organic methods.

20/09/2024

Double market weekend! Come see me 😁

20/09/2024

Lots of rain this week but that didn't stop the show! Always work to be done: I planted chives, onions, collards, bok choy on Monday and yesterday we cleared some more rows and planted the rest of chinese cabbage.

Thank you to Rachael for coming out to help me yesterday💪🏾😁. I met Rachael a few weeks ago when she purchased okra from me.

I'm always looking for and open to anyone coming to volunteer at the farm. All you have to do is message me 📢.

Send a message to learn more

05/09/2024

I went home to Georgia for a week and came back to tons of peppers to harvest, the succession planting of yellow squash, cukes, and zukes are doing well.

Also decided to cut a bouquet of zinnias for myself 😁. Thanks for the bleach in the water tip!

Saw some parasitic wasp eggs on a hornworm that was on one of my serrano pepper plants.💪🏾. This is exactly what I want to see on the farm.

25/08/2024

We are outside today!!
11-2pm
Shalom Farms
Come get your haul for the week
Chat with awesome people
Start your week off right! 💪🏾🥬😊

11/08/2024

Random pics from the past week!