Workday this Saturday August 16th

Can you take the heat??! It’s August and the Sun’s blazing, no doubt about it….. Join us Saturday for our Volunteer Workday and take nature’s extreme challenge at the Parkway site. A mix of projects and the relief of icy lemongrass tea await you. Light 

Summer newsletter from the Fruitful Field

Summer Garden News It’s summer at our sub-tropical garden!  Unlike places up north that doesn’t mean rows and rows of vegetables and mellow healthy sun.  Instead, we have really hot humid veggie-wilting, bug-generating weather tough to work in even when it’s not pouring down rain! 

Building Decorative Bird Houses for the garden with kids of all ages

A great off Campus June happening for the Fruitful Field VBS at First United Methodist in Fort Lauderdale (12 photos) Great time with over 140 kids at Vacation Bible School in Fort Lauderdale, sharing what we grow, tasting garden honey, and painting birdhouses for our 

Volunteer Day this Saturday the 21st

Hey Fruitful Field volunteers, we have a volunteer day this Saturday June 21st.  We prepping and planting a field full of okra along with other great tasks.  Snacks, lemon grass tea and a light lunch.  9am to noon.  See you in the garden!

Mango tree pruning class this Saturday (June 14th) at 9:30 AM

  Fruit tree pruning class at the Fruitful Field! Saturday June 14 at 9:30am! Free. We’ll show you how to prune mango trees so they stay productive and don’t get too big. Includes hands-on practice. Mango trees don’t have to be giants to produce great 

We have named the Tractor

We’ve picked a name! The new tractor is named Ferdinand! Congrats to @Meg McKenna, a faithful regular at our Saturday Volunteer Workdays, who suggested this great name. See this link  for a short old-fashioned movie about Ferdinand…  

Check out May pictures from the garden

Some snapshots for the month- stay tuned for further big announcements! May 2014 Album

New Garden Tractor

23 Horses just arrived on the property…well, sort of… Say hi to our new tractor! Thanks again to the Gardening for Good Fund of @The Community Foundation of Broward and generous donors!    

Tractor Shopping for The Fruitful Field

We are tractor shopping at the Field!!! Thanks to the huge generosity of the “Gardening for Good Fund of the Community Foundation of Broward“ plus a few other generous donors we will be harnessing the power of a small, strong and super energy efficient Kubota 

Workday this Saturday, April 19th

  Come help us work in the dirt! Volunteer Workday this Saturday, March 19 from 9am to 12noon. Snacks, light lunch, water and our famous lemon grass tea! Bring your closed-toes shoes and a hat–see you in the garden!

Fridays at the Fruitful Field

Think weekends are the only busy time at the garden? Think again! Here’s 5 of the 8 folks working at the Field last Friday.

March Workday is this Saturday (15th)

  Hey garden enthusiasts, don’t forget that this Saturday, March 15th, is our monthly volunteer day.  From 9am to noon, don’t miss the fun!

Tea in the Garden- Buy your Lawn Tickets now

If you’ve been waiting until the last minute wait no longer!  We are 48 hours from Tea and want you to join us. To make the decision even easier Lawn Tickets are 20% off– just enter the promotion code “gardentea” and come join us in