CFBG is a public garden & venue situated on 80 acres just 2 miles from downtown Fayetteville, NC. Gift Shop Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
03/06/2025
It's a sure sign of Spring when our Veggie Garden Volunteers return for their weekly work in the McCauley Heritage Garden. Here's an excerpt from their first visit of 2025.
Back to the Garden. The weather was a little sketchy this morning with weather warnings for impending storms, but the CFBG Heritage volunteers pressed through and we finally met together again after a long winter absence.
New staff was met, including new Volunteer Coordinator Julia, Horticulture Director Adam, as well as Stevie, the new Intern who has been a FTCC Hort. student. There were also new volunteers– all great supporters of the work in Heritage Garden and the growing of food.
Our first task was to go to the greenhouse and survey the entire Heritage area. New picnic tables have recently been built, the perimeter area has been cleaned of the betony and planted with brassica, and happily most of the rosemary survived the army worms invasion of last summer.
The greenhouse is overflowing with various flowers, herbs, and vegetables – most of which were propagated there from seeds from County Farm & Home in Pittsboro.
Marlena, Stevie and two new volunteers were up-potting seedlings, while Stevie gave us an interesting mini lesson on how the sweet peas, rosemary, and zinnias were propagated.
The rain was light and the weather felt excellent as Marty and I gathered tools and headed to the Veggie garden. After a quick walk about, we chose our first planting bed located on the west side bed on the fence to amend with some of the compost from the 3-bin system. There we set up some trellises and planted garden pea seeds. Marty cleaned beds for the upcoming potato planting, and the garlic was fertilized.
At the end of our morning, Chad came by for a planning chat in the General Store; we discussed the upcoming growing season, volunteer schedules, and how best to keep Heritage as it has been originally established.
Today was the start of many “new things” – people, plants, garden plans, and the growing season. We couldn’t help but feel grateful to be part of such volunteer opportunities at CFBG, and especially to garden together with our friends.
