Williamsburg Community Growers

09/20/2025

Can you ID these delicious veggies that will be coming soon in our CSA?
Email [email protected] to sign up for our 2026 CSA and support our mission.

09/16/2025

So many second hand china cabinets in our town at thrift shops, ready to be recycled like this. ❤️

We found her by the curb. Just… sitting there. Next to a stack of boxes and a handwritten “FREE” sign that was flapping in the wind like even it had given up.
She was dusty. Missing a k**b. The kind of cabinet you’d expect to see holding china in a grandma’s dining room, not glass seedlings in the dirt behind a fence.
But I couldn’t walk past her.
The neighbors said she was “too heavy,” “too old,” “didn’t fit the vibe anymore.”
And I get it.
We live in a world that throws away anything that stops being shiny.
But we brought her home anyway. My partner helped lift her into the yard. I cleaned the glass, tightened the hinges. And suddenly, it wasn’t a cabinet anymore.
It was a greenhouse.
Now it holds sprouting tomatoes. Basil from seed. My grandmother’s old ceramic watering pot. And this little carved sign that says “grow anyway.”
Because that’s what this cabinet is.
A quiet little rebellion.
Proof that beauty doesn’t expire. That usefulness doesn’t vanish with dust. That you can start again, even if your purpose looks different than it did before.
I shared the transformation on one of my upcycle groups on the Tedooo app and the responses were unreal. One woman said, “I have that exact cabinet. It was my mom’s. I’m pulling it out of storage now.” Another offered to send me handmade k**bs from her shop to finish the restoration.
So yeah. We found her by the trash.
But she lives now, in the sun, in the soil, in the green things that keep rising.
And isn’t that all any of us really want?
To not be thrown away. To be useful again. To grow anyway.

09/15/2025

Attention Walmart shoppers! Most fertilizers 50% off including Plant Tone and the fancy stuff! Rochambeau Walmart.

09/15/2025

Old farmers give good advice.

Our rule of thumb is to not plant garlic until after the first day of fall 🧄 This year, that will be on Monday, September 22 🍂 Just like onions and other plants in the Allium family, garlic is sensitive to day length, and fall planting gives it a jumpstart on the growing season. Here are a few more garlic-planting tips: Almanac.com/Planting-Garlic-Fall

09/13/2025

Today’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share!

09/02/2025

08/27/2025

🌻🦋Join James City County Parks & Recreation and parks throughout the country in a fun challenge to see how many pollinator species can be documented this September. 🐝It is easy to participate by joining an event or making observations on your own, using the iNaturalist app by simply taking a picture 📸 of a pollinator (bee, butterfly, bat, etc.) or plant, and the online community will help identify the species.🦇 You can participate by exploring the nature and wildlife throughout James City County. Any observation you make will count during our event. 🤩The Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz is organized by the National Recreation and Park Association.
Visit https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/parks-for-pollinators-2025-james-city-county?tab=about for more information! The Bioblitz runs from Sept. 1-Sept. 30. Contact [email protected] for more information. All Ages. FREE! ✨

08/26/2025

🐝✨ VDACS is now accepting applications for the 2025 Beehive Distribution Program!

Virginia residents ages 18+ can apply Aug. 26 – Sept. 10 for a chance to receive free equipment to assemble new beehives. The program helps grow the number of actively managed honey bee colonies across the Commonwealth—boosting pollination for farms, gardens, and natural spaces. 🌻🌾

📌 Apply and learn more here: https://ow.ly/GZXW50WM435

08/26/2025

HEADS UP: Over 200,000,000 birds were in flight for the start of the annual Fall migration overnight! The colder than average weather has jumpstarted the migration. The eastern half of the United States was flooded with millions of nocturnal migrating birds detected on weather Doppler Radar overnight traveling south 15-20 mph at an altitude of 1,400-2,100 feet. This data is according to BirdCast.

Multiple varieties of Warblers along with American Redstart, Viero and Eastern Wood-Peewees among other species are on the move.

YOU CAN HELP — turn off your outdoor lights! Consider dimming or turning off unnecessary outdoor lights which can negatively impact natural nocturnal bird populations and migrations over the next few weeks. Light pollution can disorient, confuse and ultimately interfere or injure nocturnal birds.