Summer ministry to Indian youth

This is a great ministry to Indian youth - I have supported them for years - they need cooks too!

http://mnnonline.org/article/14008

Find a food pantry to donate extra produce

http://www.AmpleHarvest.org  
Helps connect gardeners with food pantries around the country who can use extra produce.  Very cool!

Blueberry sale!

We're participating in a fundraiser for our children to be able to take music lessons at Joyful Noise.

Christina and I are raising funds to help pay for a child whose mother is ill, and for our own children to take orchestra and band next year.

It's also a great opportunity to get fresh blueberries for cheap. We can order as many lbs. as we want but they come in 2lb. containers so it has to be an even number in quantity.

They are only $6.00 for each 2lb. clam shell! (It would be at least twice that much at the grocery store).

They will be ready for pick-up in Kennesaw on Wed., June 23rd.
They will be cleaned & transported from south GA in a refrigerated truck.

I am taking orders between now & June 9th but you don't need to pay until June 9th which is two weeks before pick-up.

Christina took an order today for 40 lbs. She intends to freeze them & use them all year long. She usually gets them from Costco but says this is a much better deal. I read today at the Kroger online site that they can freeze well up to a year.

So you can email me your name, how many pounds you want & when you intend to pay.
Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.
Shelly - allstarchemdry@gmail.com or 770-443-1800

Free blueberry recipes from "The Joy of Blueberries" with your order!

Promoting the Food Pantry Garden

So during the Easter Egg Hunt, I was passing out little packs of bean seeds to children to promote our food pantry garden.  Hopefully some folks will grow extra and donate it to our food pantry!

John got us a couple loads of compost and we are ready to plant the raised beds.  We hope to till up the ground around them for more planting in the ground as we don't have enough materials for more beds yet.

The children's church may come help us plant beans one Sunday, so they can learn about gardening at the church too.  I hope to get John to make us a compost tumbler for the church also, so we can compost our vegetable scraps and green clippings there too.  Very excited about the new area by the retention pond, it looks like it gets a good amount of sunlight!

If you would like to contribute a tomato plant or some time watering the garden, let me know!
Shelly