century HOPE GARDEN
Century Hope Garden is a community garden where neighbors sow together, grow together, and harvest together for a happy and healthy life! #HopeGrowsInCentury
GARDEN CHATTER
Dig Into Fall
CANCELED Workday: We will be sowing seeds(carrot, onions, broccoli) in the raised beds or planting collards and cabbages) in rows, …
End of Season
Its been another successful season thanks to our volunteers Mr. Raymond, the Pritchetts, Mr. Rochelle and our donors, Bondurants, Modern …
Potato Time
Yesterday, with the assistance of Mr. Raymond, we dug up our potatoes. It’s the first crop of this season and …
We Are Growing
In addition to our new potato/corn field our Pensacola State College team with an assist from the Florida Dept of …
Season 2025
We are excited for 2025 and know that this will be the best season yet. With new sponsors and volunteers …
Another Season
I apologize for not keeping this blog updated but promise to do better. Here’s a summary of last season….2024. Last …
#HopeGrowsInCentury S3-E3
April is a month filled with activities for our fledgling community garden. This year it is teaching us the meaning …
It’s Spring Time 🌼 S3-E2
Do your happy dance !🕺 💃 February and part of March was warm enough for my scuppernongs to sprout and …
Sow To Grow Season 3
Happy New Year to all gardeners and those who are gardener-ish! I haven’t written a post in awhile but we …
New Fall Season Has Begun
June and July have been brutal months of heat. I believe the sun is angry with us for not taking …
Sow To Grow Season 2 Episodes 6 and 7
All we did was work steadily away. We dug and transplanted and watered and weeded and 😓 sweated! It’s always …
Sow To Grow S2-E5
Rain Out!!! We transplanted our zucchini plants to our first raised bed, 6 plants in all. We left the collard …
SOW TO GROW S2-E4
Today, it was all about the work. We worked hard. We had to fill in our second raised bed. Since …
Sow To Grow Season 2 Episode 3
Whewwwwww! Shelisa and I put in another day of hard work. Today we tackled our second raised bed donated to …
Sow To Grow Season 2 Episode 2
Our second workday of the season was a warm spring day and we worked hard. We actually broke out in …
Season 2 – Sow to Grow
It’s actually season 4 but the first 2 years we really didn’t get a footing in this garden business. Primarily …
Garden Planning Time 2022
We have taken a break from garden duties as cold weather came upon us! Now it’s time to plan out …
Work Day #11 and Another Day
Nothing exciting happened on workday 11(October 30)….we just worked steadily away at pulling weeds, rather bushes in this case. Sunday, …
Work Day #10 Getter Done!
It was cooler this morning and overcast. It was good work weather. First order of business was to give our …
Look At What We Have Here!!!
About 1 week after we sowed our seeds and 5 days of steady rain we have a surprise in our …
Work Day #9 Whew……Finally!
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we …
Autumn is Here!!! Donation Time!
We, here in Florida, although we love summer, look forward to milder weather. It is here…. even if it’s just …
Work Day #8
So workday 6 and 7 were uneventful. We continued to fill up our raised bed, hoping that it wouldn’t settle …
Workday #5
Workdays #3 and #4 were canceled due to rain and an illness. But we got back to work today and …
Work Day #2
It’s 4th of July weekend and the ice machine station next to the old donut shop is out of order …
New Project
Back in May I hinted at a new project other members of our team is working on. While one side …
Work Day #1
Today was our first official workday of this year. We didn’t have a big turnout but Shelisa and I put …
June Workdays
We have an unofficial workday Monday, June 14th at 7am. The official is as below! …
Working in the Garden
Shelisa and I met this morning and started pulling weeds and discussed plans for the future! We’ve decided we need …
Work Day June 10, 2021
Mrs. Faye, Ms. Shelisa, Ms. Kim and I are going to get this garden going. First order of business will …
Reunited and it Feels so Good….
Today, we had our first meeting of the season. We’ve decided to continue with the garden and to keep our …
April 7, 2021
Nature has taken back our garden. And vandals have broken into the band building which we were using as a …
Hello 2021
Today is March 12, 2021. Time to think about the garden again. Everything is slowly opening back up across the …
And then 2020!!!
The community garden was no more. No one replied to my emails, we didn’t get the grants we wanted. It …
What Happened in 2019? Part 3
I don’t know what month we wanted to have a third or fourth workday. I just remember sending out an …