Thanks for starting this thread Farmercathy! I used to be quite active in this forum but have lived in an apartment with nowhere to garden for several years and eventually tapered off in my posting.
This year my girls and I have joined a wonderful gardening club at a local university. It really is an amazing program. The university is letting the club use acres and acres of land for an all organic co-op type program. Each child gets a 4ft by 4ft raised bed in the children's garden, and families get one or more 4 by 10ft raised beds depending on family size.
However, the community garden is amazing! We will have a huge pumpkin patch next to the children's garden, huge corn field, and we've already planted hundreds of pounds of potatoes. There are raspberries, blackberries, asparagus, horseradish, rhubarb, and grapes already established. We'll be planting hundreds of tomatoes, beans, peppers, squash, gourds, several different grains, you name it, we'll be planting it! It is a teaching garden so there will be some experimenting going on, including 4 kinds of rice, three upland rices even one paddy rice. There are gardening lectures once a week and two community garden work days but anyone can stop by anytime and work on their garden in an absolutely beautiful landscape. Everything is strictly organic and the coordinator of this program is quite fond of heirlooms. Oh, and it's a totally FREE program. All supplies and are supplied, thanks to a grant. You only have to purchase your own seeds if you want to grow something different than what they have. Yay!
In my little bed I already have three kinds of peas, spinach, french radishes, carrots, parsley, arugula, a few onions and some garlic.Yesterday we helped get the frames of two greenhouses built. We helped build the raised beds, too. This is all very exciting and I feel my gardening soul truly coming back to life. I've had to grow stuff in pots outside my apartment but share an entryway and people throw cigarette butts in my stuff and kids have vandalized or stolen my tomatoes every single year. I am most happy that my girls are getting this amazing experience. My older dd remembers mama's garden and working and playing in it, but my younger dd does not, even though she was a little gardening girl at the time, too. So, did I already say how happy I am? 
Anyway, thought I would share with fellow gardeners and subbing. Hope to check in here often and see what everyone is up to!
Happy Gardening!
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