First MarketKids Vendor Day!

On July 12th the MarketKids set up their booths at the Blacksburg Farmers Market for the first MarketKids Vendor Day of the season. The kids had creative displays for their booth, and were selling a wide array of products from their home gardens: cut flower bouquets, dried herb sashays, fresh herbs, zucchini, chard, kale, apples, honey, cucumbers, berries, and potted plants. The kids had a steady stream of customers, and they all were beaming with pride by the end of the day!

Developments in the MarketKids Hunger Relief Garden

It's just starting to be harvest time in the MarketKids Hunger Relief Garden! With sprawling cucumber, squash, and sweet potato vines, plump green tomatoes, bushing potatoes, budding sunflowers and nasturtiums, along with beans, peppers, cabbage, and basil we're in for quite the yield! This past week we had our first harvest, picking 17 cucumbers and a big bag of basil. After harvesting we used a couple of the cucumbers to learn about lacto-fermentation in a pickle-making workshop! The rest of the cucumbers, and all of the basil were donated to Share the Spare this past Saturday at the Farmers Market. I look forward to the future fruits of our labors!