Coronado Home Harvest, our community’s new free, fruit vegetable and flower exchange, held its second monthly exchange on July 17 in front of the Winn Room of the Library, and it was another resounding success. Eight new members joined, bags came in steadily all morning, and tables were overflowing with the bounty of Coronado’s gardens. CHH operates on a “bring a bag, get a bag” method, and encourages partnering with those who cannot pick from their own gardens. Bring a bag or more of fruit, vegetables, flowers, cuttings, herbs and they will be divided into an assortment of what is received. Return and pick up your bag, now filled with everyone else’s wonderful things, then check out the “Picker’s Choice” table.
Jerrica Baker shows off the hot habenero peppers from last weekend.
If you don’t have a garden or access to one, you can bring something homemade as long as the ingredients are listed. This will be placed on the “Picker’s Choice” table. When you pick up your bag, you can peruse this table and choose form the incredible, creative things people have contributed to the exchange. This weekend, the exchange included rosemary infused extra virgin olive oil, gladiola bulbs, a sunflower, ferns, succulent cuttings, tomato starters, squash starters, long sage to dry and burn, tomato seeds in planters, cookies, sage, rosemary, thyme, avocados, two kind of lemons, cucumbers, three kinds of peppers, three kinds of chard, two kinds of beans, beets, asian kale, carrots, green peppers, onions, squash, two kinds of tomatoes, and lots more.
Next month Coronado Home Harvest will be August 21, drop off from 8-10am, new pick up times from 11am-12pm. We will also have a speaker in the Winn Room, Karen Contreras from Urban Plantations, giving a free talk on a gardening topic of interest. Please check www.coronadohomeharvest.org for more information. Email [email protected] to get on our mailing list.
