Jewish Family and Friends Garden Club - Interest Meeting
If you're interested in gardening, join us to discuss growing produce in our community garden and your own private gardens.

An inaugural “where do we go from here,” meeting, founding the all-volunteer Jewish Family and Friends Garden Club network at Brith Shalom (Garden Club) (intending to inspire widespread Jewish Family and Friends Garden Clubs formation and participation to network in every vector in the Jewish community – individuals, families, organizations, corporations) will convene Sunday 5 May 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at Brith Shalom, 4610 Bellaire Boulevard, Bellaire, Texas 77401. 

Preparing to flourish in times of downturn economy, is the push for planning and networking prosperous produce gardening on our own private and community lands, wherever they may be.

            Two significant and one “first” (also significant) things will occur at the inaugural Garden Club meeting at Brith Shalom on 5 May 2024:
 
1.    Sow * Savor * Share -  Planning a Jewish Family and Friends Garden Club network of produce gardeners, growing sufficient nutritious, delicious foods for yourself and your own families, and having an intentional surplus for sharing with others (kin, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, Jewish organizations) of your own choice in the Jewish community.
 
Garden Club participants may also contribute land and/or labor and/or cash donations to supply groundbreaking, sowing-to-harvesting produce gardening work.
 
Natural Earth Gardening – solely seed, soil, sunshine and rain, gardening, having no chemicals nor additives of any sort is highly recommended and preferred.  (Example:  Mint plants, delicious to us, deterrent to insects is very nutritious.  Rainwater collecting, conservation and use in gardening. Such ideas will be generated at the Garden Club meeting.
 
2.    Identify and install Garden Club officers, committee leaders and members, and volunteer support at the inaugural meeting.  Young gardeners are encouraged to attend and participate in leadership.
 
3.    A significant produce garden landscape on the grounds of Brith Shalom will be a “first”(I think).  Volunteers will design and sow a lovely, fruitful produce garden in designated spaces at the synagogue in time for September harvesting. My best guess for consideration is a mid-May sowing of sweet corn, melons, select herbs and other summer fruit, along with power greens (such as spinach) which can tolerate the Texas heat and be sown again by September, and then sown again to overwinter for a February 2025 harvest.  To continually have a stock of life sustaining food growing at-hand is a blessing.  “…the noble man devises noble plans and by noble plans he stands.”  (Yesha’yahu 32:8/Isaiah)
 
If you are unable to attend the inaugural Garden Club meeting, you may register your gardener participation and interest in a leadership position by calling or emailing Melissa Magenheim, our coordinator (and Brith Shalom’s Executive Director) at 713-667-9201 x321 or mmagenheim@brithshalom.org before 5 May 2024.
 
Please RSVP your attendance at the Garden Club meeting to Melissa before 5 May 2024.