IGrow Americus

05/30/2017

05/30/2017

Every seed of hope we plant today has the potential of growing the world into a more caring and healthy place to live.

04/09/2017

is made easy for everyone. This week is perfect planting tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and other warm season crops.

Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: Advice on plot size, which vegetables to grow, and other vegetable garden planning tips from The Old Farmer's Almanac.

04/08/2017

Put the natural decomposition processes first, and the rest falls into place.

04/07/2017

Limited on Garden Space? Go up! Conserving resources, reusing and repurposing—aka upcycling—just makes sense. So we really like this vertical gardening method that will also use up old rain gutter pieces. You can make it out of salvaged pieces as you will see in the instructions on the next page or…

04/07/2017

Gardens help young children learn, be creative, and socialize from an early age in a way no textbook can.

04/03/2017

Growing Your Own Food is easy with our raised bed kits. Our raised beds enable you to avoid headaches of: digging, incessant weeds, and several poor crops. We offer basic installs, planting, and/or personalized installation tutorials to transfer as much food garden knowledge as possible into your hands. Our services are available in the Albany, GA - Columbus, GA - Dothan, AL - Macon, GA - Tallahassee, FL - Valdosta, GA

06/01/2015

Want to increase your income and extend your harvest season? Read our recent blog by Farmer Fredo on Succession Planting to gain insight on old farming tradition that will keep fresh produce on your table this summer. www.igrowamericus.org/blog

Have you been at the farmers market one week with abundance and two weeks later you don’t have anything to sell? Are you looking for ways to maximize your growing space? Do you want to minimize...

04/21/2015

Food Garden Installation Complete at Loloma Park in Americus, GA. Four theme raised beds - Salsa, Happy Herbs, Gourmet Mediterranean, and Fiery Grilling plus annual and perennial flowers.

04/10/2015

Community Garden at Cafe Campesino is starting to take shape for the spring/summer growing season. There are a couple of beds still available for $35. Inbox us for details.

04/09/2015

Spring is here. We are thankful for those individuals who purchase transplants from us this week. We'll be updating our website with what is available for pick up at Cafe Campesino this Tuesday, April 14th.
This was our first order of the season. Thanks to Hope H for ordering - Chives, Arkanas traveler tomatoes, brandywine tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, Tabasco peppers, and lemon balm. The proceed from these transplant help cover the cost of our Spreading the Harvest program.