Produce
Community Harvest Night
Wednesday September 28th will be the last Community Harvest Night of the season.
This year, the Cornucopia garden will be open for community harvesting every Wednesday evening 6pm-8pm. Please, don't forget your re-usable bags and boxes.
What can be harvested this week?
Different vegetables will be ready to harvest at different times. We'll do our best to publish a list of what's ready to be harvested in this section of this website. Quantities may be limited so there's no assurance that everything on the list will be available when you come to Cornucopia.
The following produce is ready to be harvested this week:
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Beets
- Turnips
- Onions
- Bush Beans (green & yellow)
- Bok Choy
- Swiss Chard
- Lettuce
- Endives
- Peas
- Kale
- Cabbage
- Zucchini
- Pumpkin
- Radishes
- Peppers
- Tomatoes
- Herbs
What is being grown?
We grow many vegetables and herbs, for example:
- Lettuce
- Greens
- Beans
- Peas
- Squash - summer and winter
- Cucumbers
- Onions
- Root vegetables - turnips, radishes, beets, carrots, potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Peppers
- Cabbages
- Garlic
- Herbs (dill, basil, mint, parsley, tarragon, cilantro, oregano, thyme, and many more!)
- ...And more!
Do you have a favorite? Please let us know. We value input from our recreational harvestars and charitable organizations to help us decide what to grow. Email us at cornucopia@calgarygardenpath.ca.
How is it being grown?
All the food is organically grown by program participants, staff, Board members, garden members and volunteers. Program participation is open to everyone in Calgary. This is important because it gives everyone an opportunity to actually get involved in the growing process. This way, people know exactly how their food is grown and what goes into it.
We have used a mentor from Fort Calgary's garden to help with planning and we encourage more garden pros to come forward and help.
Is the produce certified organic?
Third-party organic certification is a wonderful thing. It gives you a high degree of confidence that the food was grown in a certain way. We strive to give our participants an even greater degree of confidence by actually getting them involved in growing the food. If you grow it yourself, you'll know exactly how it was done so third-party certification is no longer necessary. But if you are not directly involved, rest assured that we not using any chemical fertilizers or pesticides in our garden. We use only natural fertilizers (manure, compost, green manure), and attempt to control our pests through companion planting, crop rotation, and good old fashion vigilance.
