to good homes and dinner tables, that's where!
Starters! You sowed, tended and poured both water and love on your vegetable start kits, then entrusted getstarted to find good homes for your wards. As you know, in May and early June, we shared those starts with appreciative families and individuals at seven Petaluma and Santa Rosa food pantries, and since then, we’ve circled back to see how the “Growers” and their plants have been doing. We now have some happy updates to share!
“Everything’s thriving! I’ve already had cucumbers and beans. The tomatoes are still green, but they’re there. I love to go out and look at it all. It really inspired me to get going on an edible garden and made me wonder, why am I not doing this more?”—Ella T
“My wife planted them all. It brought us out of the house and into the backyard. It seems like life is coming back to our house! We go out everyday, we’ve added to it—it’s wonderful.”—M.C.
"I visit them everyday and I’m hoping they become superplants and will be super to eat! I’ll have to get bigger bread so I can make nice, big sandwiches. This was the first time I grew vegetable plants. I’m trying to grow other things now.”—Linda C.
Sadly, Seth’s plants didn’t fare as well due to his family’s month-long trip to Africa to visit friends and family, but he promises to take better care in the future and has already decided he’ll be growing tomatoes. : )
These accounts, and so many more, warmed our hearts and we hope warm yours now, too.
Thank you Starters, volunteers, Petaluma Bounty, the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma and our product sponsors Petaluma Seedbank, Swallowtail Garden Seeds, Grab N’ Grow and Friedman’s for all of your generous, big-hearted and enthusiastic help in making the spring 2021 program such a terrific success!
