The theme for our Company Christmas Party this year is “Christmas For Kids!” One of the activities to get us in the spirit is decorating the new tree in the lobby. A magnificent 13′ blue spruce has been lit with giant bulbs and bubble lights. Each associate has been asked to bring in an ornament to hang on the tree starting on Monday, December 12th. There are serious ones, sentimental ones, and of course some silly ones. We even have hand-painted and hand-carved specialty ornaments! [...]

Join me, @MelissaJBond, as I guest host #GardenChat on Monday, August 22nd for a discussion about Growing and Giving; Formally AND Informally Have you ever grown too many tomatoes or zucchini and tried giving them away to friends and neighbors only to find that they just can’t take anymore? Have you ever left “care packages” on the doorsteps of said friends and neighbors, rang the bell, and ran away before they could say no? Ever take those extras into the office and set them by [...]

Growing Some Good Thank you to all the gardeners that donated vegetables today. We had 3 car loads! Your produce will feed over 120 families in the Marysville and Plain City areas this week. We hope to have two harvest days next week; Tuesday to the new Worthington Food Pantry, and Friday to the Marysville Food Pantry. More details to come. As of 8/14/09 over 1,850 pounds of fresh vegetables from our gardens have been delivered to the Marysville Food Pantry. Your donations help to [...]

We had a wonderful harvest yesterday! It was very nice to see the wide variety of vegetables, especially all the first tomatoes of every shape and size. Once again Team R&D Red Shirts provided the largest harvest of the week. They donated 39.78 pounds of veggies from their 3’ x 6’ garden, bringing their season total to 227.24 pounds! More than 50 other teams added to yesterday’s donations for the Marysville Food Pantry, bringing the delivery to about 300 pounds. The two-carload haul included; zucchini, [...]

Today we took a wonderful carload of fresh vegetables from our Associate Gardens. The teams really were prepared and we sorted zucchini’s and summer squashes by size and variety. We ended up with over 200 lbs of just those types today. In addition, we had about 50 lbs of cucumbers, a basket of green bell peppers, two baskets of green beans, and a good variety of smaller quantities of the following; eggplant, cabbage, carrots, yellow onions, purple beans, swiss chard, basil, banana peppers, broccoli, and [...]

Last Friday, June 26th, we delivered over 30 bags of fresh produce from our Associate Gardens to the Marysville Food Pantry. This was double the amount the week before, and took two carloads to transport. They had even received fresh vegetables from several local individual gardens earlier in the day. The trend is spreading in a positive way! The variety of our harvest is quickly increasing. Friday’s colorful haul included broccoli, beets, hot peppers, beans, radishes, peas, lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, onions, cabbage, summer squash, [...]