Flourish Newsletter: Autumn 2023

  FLOURISH    
Nourish Wellness Newsletter  
Volume 1: Issue 8

Nourish Wellness Mini-Farm
Spring 2023

Nourish Wellness periodically donates leafy greens to Greater Richmond Interfaith Program, (GRIP). GRIP's chef, Chantel Toliver transforms our tree collards and kale into delicious, nutritious food for the program's clients.

Bagged leafy greens ready for donation (March 2023)

Dinosaur kale

Tree collards and kale

Basket of mustard greens

Bagged leafy greens ready for donation (April 2023)

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Nourish Wellness Mini-Farm Volunteers
Summer 2023

Nailah, Ajani, Marley, Andwele, and Thandi harvesting baby potatoes (Summer 2023)

Merritt College Landscape Horticulture LH208B herb students, Kristi and Katerina, building an herb spiral on the mini-farm. (Summer 2023)

Culinary herb spiral

Produce and canned goods available for students and staff at Merritt S.O.U.L.'s food pantry.

Merritt College's Basic Needs Coordinator, Susana Abdurahman (on the right), receiving leafy greens donation from Nourish Wellness' director, Nia Hill. (September 2023.)

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Volunteer support needed! 
​Nourish Wellness needs assistance with:
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* Seed sowing
* Saving seeds
​* Weeding garden beds
* Cultivating garden beds
*  Planting more greens
* Harvesting greens & veggies for donation
* Sheet mulching

​​Please email [email protected] if you would like to volunteer. 
Put "Volunteer Support" in the subject line.

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​We'd like to give a special THANK YOU to:

* ​TYEHIMBA PEYTON *
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THANK YOU Brother Tyehimba Peyton for your donation of gopher cages.
​We appreciate your monetary donation as well. Your contribution helped us pay for garden maintenance on our mini-farm.

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​* THIBAULT MONNIER *
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THANK YOU Thibault Monnier for your professional string trimming and major tree pruning services. Not only do we have more room on the mini-farm to plant food to donate, we have eucalyptus branches to create terraces for our garden beds. 

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Nourish Wellness has tote bags and t-shirts for sale.
​Please go to our FUNDRAISING PAGE for  more details.

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Nourish Wellness is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Please donate to support our cause.

​Donated funds are used to purchase supplies, fundraising items,
​and cover operating costs.

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