Thanks to funding from the Brookline Community Foundation, Teens Grow Food opened its first session last Monday, July 19 through August 13, with Bountiful Brookline's very first paid staff person, Marianna Ballou, at the helm. This summer, a small crew will farm organic vegetables at Bountiful Brookline's garden site and deliver them to the food pantry. They will participate in various workshops on the food system, hunger, nutrition, food justice, and food cultures, in addition to regular cooking sessions and tours of Brookline's local farms, residential gardens, and restaurant gardens.

We are excited to get this program launched and you can help!
Immediate garden and food prep needs include:

• An old Food Processor
• Gardening gloves
• Plastic door-hanging shoe rack
• Cooks knives
• A large cutting board
• Gardening shovels
• Large cooking spoons
• Produce Scale

Do you have a laptop computer that is sitting idle?
Give it a new life and enable our teen crew to contribute posts, share recipes and give you a great reason to visit the Bountiful Brookline blog!!!

More updates:

-Our Edible Gardens Harvest Tour is Sunday, September 19th! Find out more on our events page.

Bountiful Brookline seeks to put down more roots!!!

Interested in local fresh food in Brookline?
Want to support our efforts to grow more?

We are seeking urban farming enthusiasts and supporters to

• Join our Steering Committee
• Help plan upcoming Events
• Lend a hand or a hoe for a garden
• Be a blog writer enthusiast

Please contact us and we'll tell you more about ways you can help grow the future of our community! bountifulbrookline [at] gmail.com.

Things are happening at breakneck speed over at the Greenside Out Garden. Thanks to Mother Nature for her heat and rain, but especially for the assiduous attentions of our devoted volunteers. We are now sending a regular delivery of herbs, scallions, carrots, beets, and greens to the Brookline Food Pantry three times per week. Fledgling tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans, and eggplants are dribbling in, getting ready for the big show. 
 
Front of the garden
Back of the garden

Side of the garden, with potatoes growing in the tires.
Biking the harvest to the food pantry
Stay tuned for more updates!

Interested in volunteering at the Greenside Out Garden? Contact Jenny at lavignejenny [at] gmail.com.

There is something growing at 14 Griggs Rd. and 36 Country Rd! Despite the weather, Bountiful Brookline and some wonderful volunteers successfully planted two new gardens in the yards of some very generous Brookline residents. We hope these installations will help educate our community on the amazing possibilities of "yard sharing"!

For more information on yard sharing check out these websites:

www.hyperlocavore.comwww.sharingbackyards.comwww.urbangardenshare.orgwww.yardsharing.org (portland)

The raised bed gardens at the High Street Vet's are happening! On Saturday May 15th a group of families kicked off the planting season with an array of good eats. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers and more. The brand new community gardeners, young and old alike are excited to be growing their own produce. Serena, the 9 year-old daughter of one of the gardeners wants to eat her broccoli as soon as possible! The garden is the first of this magnitude ever built on Brookline Housing Property. Special thanks to Bountiful Brookline. 
Regards, Terry and Mike

There is something growing at 14 Griggs Rd. and 36 Country Rd! Despite the weather, Bountiful Brookline and some wonderful volenteers successfully planted two new gardens in the yards of some very generous Brookline residents. We hope these installations will help educate our community on the amazing possibilities of "yard sharing"!

For more information on yard sharing check out these websites:

www.hyperlocavore.comwww.sharingbackyards.comwww.urbangardenshare.orgwww.yardsharing.org (portland)

Just submitted our entry for Revelation to Action: Your Place. Your Idea. Your Change.

An Edible Community: Its Growing Everywhere

Ashoka Changemakers and Green Mountain Coffee have teamed up to host a competition for New England and New York to submit innovative ideas to improve communities. Read our entry, respond and check back - if we make it to the finals, your vote is crucial!!!
Thanks for the support.

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Peas are up, spinach is hardy, strawberries are flowering and the sun is shining! There's a huge mound of compost in the driveway, lots of seeds in the shed, the fences are forlorn awaiting the climb of cucumbers, squash and more. We are settling into our new garden at the Brookline Community Foundation. Come join us in the garden!

Gathering new volunteers to help here and across Brookline. Check out the Events page for upcoming activities planned for the spring!