Ipomea batatas that is – sweet potatoes. We started the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden sweet potato harvest on Saturday, 10/20, approximately 112 days after planting the initial “slips”. A nice team representing J-Town Richmond – including Nerice Lochansky, Tanisha Henson, Adam Beifield and Rabbi Jesse Gallop – began the harvest. J-Town Richmond is a community of Richmond’s Jews in their 20s & 30s focused on civic activities, worship & social programming. On Saturday the J-Town team was joined by HandsOn RVA volunteer Maria Carra Rose and Lewis Ginter volunteer John Jameson.
These sweet potatoes are 100% organic, two varieties (O’Henry & Beauregard) grown from slips donated by Slade Farms in Surry, VA, and fertilized only with fish emulsion and seaweed extract.