The Farmacy Garden
WE BELIEVE GOD is LOVE
The Farmacy Community Garden was established by Clara Kistner in 2017 to provide organic produce for clients of Helping Hand Crisis Ministry of Spicewood. Our original home was near the Spicewood Community Library, we moved to the BCUMC campus in 2020.
Join Us
We welcome you to help in the garden!
Volunteers are welcome at 8:00am every Tuesday and Thursday, and at 8:00am on the first and third Saturday of each month.
The Numbers
Since we started tracking our production volume in 2018, we have grown, harvested, and shared:
- 2,278 pounds of produce in 2024 (so far!)
- 3,171 pounds of produce in 2023
- 1,694 pounds of produce in 2022
- 2,656 pounds of produce in 2021
- 2,122 pounds of produce in 2020
- 1,268 pounds of produce in 2019
- 1,087 pounds of produce in 2018
That’s a total of 14,276 pounds in seven years!
The Variety
We have grown a tremendous variety of fruits and vegetables over the years. Some of those include:
- Armenian cucumber
- asparagus
- beans
- beets
- black berries
- bok choy
- broccoli
- brussel sprouts
- cabbage
- cantaloupe
- carrots
- cauliflower
- celery
- cherry tomato
- cucamelon
- egg plant
- garlic
- goji berry
- green cucumber
- ground cherry
- herbs
- honey dew melon
- jalapeno pepper
- kale
- lemon cucumber
- long beans
- napa cabbage
- okra
- onion
- poblano pepper
- patty pan squash
- plums
- pomegranate
- potatoes
- radish
- round zucchini
- salad greens (lettuce, endive, arugula)
- shishito pepper
- snap peas
- spinach
- summer squash
- sweet pepper
- Swiss chard
- tomato
- watermelon
- zucchini
Farmacy Gallery
These photographs show some of the people, plants, and produce from our bountiful community garden. Come join us.
Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
Jeremiah 29:5
