Fitness in the Garden

Recently, employees from 24 Hour Fitness joined us in the garden for a work party. Having a group of gym professionals in the garden made me curious about how many calories are burned gardening. I found this website that calculates exactly that! I put in my stats and learned that I burn 260 calories per hour gardening. Now, I'm not the fitness expert, so I have no idea what this means, but it sounds pretty good to me!

Want to know what is even more exciting than the calories we burned? The calories we harvested, of course! During 24 Hour Fitness' one day volunteer event on July 19th, they harvested 276.5 lbs of food. If anyone can figure out how many calories that is, let me know. (I'm serious- my email is volunteer@sdnccs.org)

And now, the pictures.

Below: 24 Hour Fitness poses after the volunteer project. The wheel-barrow full of weeds is evidence of their hard work.

Below: A volunteer shows off a monster of a zucchini. No wonder we have harvested 262 lbs of zucchini alone this summer.
Below: A load of Armenian Cucumbers (yard-long cucumber). Used like a cucumber, it is actually a kind of muskmelon, so it likes our So-Cal heat more than your regular 'ole cucumbers.
This volunteer project was made possible by 24 Hour Fitness, bringer of volunteers; and by Cedros Gardens in Encinitas, donor of flowers to replant our beds with.

~Abigail Weglarz~

~Volunteer Coordinator~

~North County Community Services~