Reports

September 18-24

We had the final apple harvest this past Saturday at Mulberry Hill. Things are winding down but we are still picking small amounts of green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, beets.  Also picking fall planted spinach, radishes and lettuce.   Fall peas are starting to bloom as well as the green beans planted […]

September 11 to 17, 2022

Dear Friends of Mulberry Hill, We are making progress toward closing down the garden for the season.   Potatoes, leeks, tomatoes, broccoli, turnips, carrots have all been harvested.  Still picking green beans, beets, spinach, cabbage, lettuces, cucumbers, zucchini,  radishes, collards, apples, peppers, okra and herbs.   We expect to pick most of […]

September 4-10

Friends and Supporters,  We had a good day yesterday with 9 volunteers contributing 30 hours of service.  This brings the weekly totals to 11 volunteers contributing 44 hours.    Special thanks to Donna, Claudia, Clarissa, Amelia, Barb, Laina, Brandi, Ken, Shelly, John and Bob.   This week the monthly donations increased […]

August 28 to September 3rd

Hello Friends of Mulberry Hill,  We harvested 410 lbs of produce this week.   130 lbs were delivered to Neighborhood House food pantry on Thursday and 230 lbs went to College Court apartments on Saturday.  50 lbs of  produce went home with volunteers.   To date we have harvested 1910 lbs of […]

August 21 – August 27

Dear Friends of Mulberry Hill, A great week at Mulberry Hill Gardens.  We finished the trim on the barn, witnessed some active nature, harvested 395 lbs of produce, had a great team of volunteers on Saturday and reached our $4,000 CIP matching Grant goal.  We delivered 325 lbs. of produce to […]

Weekly Report

Dear Friends,  this is more like a monthly report as foriegn travel and Covid slowed down our efforts.  In the past four  weeks fifteen  volunteers  worked over 130  hours.  Special thanks to Donna, Clarissa, Claudia, Barb, Marion, Dexter, Ken, Amelia, Jim, Marge, Lavorn, Xiong, Htee and  Darrell.  Over a 1,000 […]

July 17-23

Hello All, we recieved $1,010 in donations this week and are just $145 short of our goal of matching the Community Improvement Grant from the City of Milwaukee.   Many thanks to those of you who have given to support this challenge.  This week we had a board meeting at the garden with […]

July 10-16

Hello All, this week we had 64 volunteer hours at the garden.   Special thanks, Amelia, Barb, Bob, Clarissa, Claudia, Donna, Elrico, Ken, Lavorn, Lizzie and Marion.  Special thanks to Clarrisa and Donna for helping with picking and delivering 60 lbs of produce to Neighborhood house on Thursday.  On Saturday we had 8 […]

July 3-9

This week MH had 67 hours of volunteering thanks to Donna, Jim, Marge, Amelia and Bob.   We finished painting the barn and installing the hardware making the barn fully functional.  We will be building shelves and benches to organize tools and equipment.  We are making great use of the loft […]

June 26-July 2

On Thursday June 30 we had our first Neighborhood House Food Pantry Harvest.  We provided 70 lbs. of greens and herbs. Volunteers picked  turnip greens, kale, Swiss chard, kohlrabi, broccoli, collards, mustard greens, onions, spinach, parsley, rosemary, arugula and thyme.  The barn is closer to completion with the roofing done  […]