Meet our Flower Bouquets!

Flowers. 

Flowers are optimistic in their very nature-

staking this year's hard-won resources on next year's fertility. They are also gorgeous, fragrant, and occasionally edible reminders of our role in things, and our dependence on the folks we share space with. Members of Filbert St. Garden have had a lot of time to reflect on this recently- 

the TriVeggie students, garden interns, 

and community gardeners spend every Tuesday afternoon 

cutting flowers and making bouquets for 

Milk and Honey Market on Cathedral St. 

in Baltimore.

The plants we are clipping from- echinacea, boneset, pyeweed, bee balm, goldenrod, and the black-eyed susan, are all plants native to our area. These plants establish themselves as important supporters of local wildlife, and most of them have health benefits for people as well.

Stop by Milk & Honey for a lovely reminder that we're all in this together, and before you leave be sure to try the red goat panini... yum.

Mushroom Appreciation Day @ Filbert St. 7/20 3pm

 

Fungi (mushrooms) play a huge role in keeping our garden healthy, even if we don't always give them the credit they deserve. Come out to Filbert St. and show some mushroom love!
Bring a mushroom dish to share and help us grow more mushrooms!

We'll be doing some maintenance on our shiitake logs, and starting oyster mushrooms in plastic buckets. Guests will have the chance to build their own mini-mushroom farm.

 

$5 to attend, $15 to build and take home a mushroom bucket.

High School Students debut "TriVeggie" Food Cart

        

TriVeggie is South Baltimore's first bike-powered food cart, and it was designed and built by students from Benjamin Franklin High School in Brooklyn/Curtis Bay. The project began as a discussion about the history of food carts in baltimore. We viewed the film "We Are Arabbers, and spoke with local experts Eric Jackson (Baltimarket) and Megan Driscoll (Habitat for Humanity)

The Velocipede Bike Project donated an industrial tricycle, and by the end of the semester, students were processing vegetables grown at Filbert St. Garden, packaging them into single serving sizes, and selling them. In our first week of business we have sold $200 worth of produce!

Come visit TriVeggie at Ben Franklin High School at 11:30 on Fridays, CBEMS at 2:30 on Fridays, and at the corner of Church St. and Anabel on Saturdays (Hours TBA)