Dundee Community Garden This Week Sept 28

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

We're not having a harvest night this Monday... the community beds don't have a lot of produce right now. But some of your individual plots are full of produce. Please keep picking! Also, if you have extra produce from your plot that you wish to donate to Together Inc.'s food pantry, let me know... we can pick from your plot, or you can drop it off on my porch at 5106 Western any day and I will take it down there.

Sunday Oct. 18, is Fall Clean-Up Day at the garden. We'll have registration forms to sign up for a plot for 2010 at that time.

We are currently sold out of Chico bags, but will be getting in more this week. Look for them at the Bread Oven-- a great way to support the garden.

T-shirt orders are due by Sunday!

We have two t-shirts that we are taking orders for. All orders must be placed by Sun. Oct 4th. Our goal is to have the t-shirts available by the Oct 18th clean up day.

Design #1 (front of shirt only) is $12 and design #2 (front and back) is $15. If you would like to order a t-shirt, send Eric Williams an e-mail at mrerlo@gmail.com Let him know which design and what size you would like to order. We will collect payment for the shirts on delivery.

Dundee Community Garden This Week 21 Sept

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

Harvest Night this Monday at 6 p.m. (because it gets dark so early). Again, if you would like to donate food from your plot to Together, Inc., but can't come Monday night, send me an e-mail to let me know it's OK to pick from your plot.

Fall Clean-Up will be Sunday Oct. 18.

Chico bags: The Bread Oven has graciously offered to sell Chico bags as part of our DCG fundraiser. Look for them in another week or so at the Bread Oven.

T-Shirts!!: We have two t-shirts that we are taking orders for. All orders must be placed by Sun. Oct 4th. Our goal is to have the t-shirts available by the Oct 18th clean up day.

Design #1 (front of shirt only) is $12 and design #2 (front and back) is $15. If you would like to order a t-shirt, send Eric Williams an e-mail at mrerlo@gmail.com Let him know which design and what size you would like to order. We will collect payment for the shirts on delivery.

Harvest Pot-Luck Party Saturday 3-5

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

Our Harvest Pot-Luck party is this Saturday, Sept. 19, 3-5 p.m. All garden members and friends of the garden are invited!
Please bring a dish to share (preferably one using produce from the garden), your own beverage, and a folding chair. This is most of all a time to socialize, for kids to play in the teepee, and for all of us to enjoy being in the beautiful garden we have created.


Additionally,
*We will be selling pumpkins from the pumpkin patch
*We will have chico bags for sale for $5
*We will be taking orders for Dundee Community Garden t-shirts
*We will have our "End of Year Survey/ Reserve a Plot for 2010" forms. Plots next year will be $20. To reserve your same plot, you will need to sign up, pay, clean up your plot, and help clean up the community beds. We'll be having a clean-up party on Sunday Oct. 18.


Important note: For those of you who are starting to clean up your own plots now, we'll be asking you to pull up everything except perennials. Most things can go in our compost bins, but PLEASE DO NOT PUT TOMATO PLANTS IN THE COMPOST! Also the squash, pumpkin, any any other plants that show signs of blight of fungus cannot go in our compost bins. These plants should go in the brown paper composting bags for the city to pick up. The city's site will get hot enough that these plants can be composted there. We're planning to get a truckload of Oma-grow delivered in October for people to dig into their plots. Watch for more details later.


Hope to see lots of gardeners on Saturday,

Mary

Dundee Community Garden 14-20 Sept

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

The garden looks great and is loaded with vegetables ripe for picking! Please visit your garden plot and harvest what is there!


Here's what's happening this coming week:

1. Our next harvest night is Monday Sept. 14. We'll start at 6:30, as it is getting dark so early. Please come to help harvest produce from the community plots that we'll donate to the food pantry at Together, Inc.

*If you would like to donate produce from your own plot to the food pantry, please join us on Monday evening, or send me an e-mail to let me know we have permission to pick from your plot! And as far as any plots covered in over-ripe or rotting-on-the-vine tomatoes, we may help "lighten the load" Monday and put some of that very ripe produce in our Together collection -- this is only if your plot is looking neglected and food is going to waste.

2. Next board meeting is Tues. Sept. 15, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian. All garden members welcome!

3. Harvest pot-luck is Sat. Sept. 19, 3-5 at the garden. Bring a dish to share, hopefully one that contains something from the garden! Hope lots of garden members and friends can come to this end-of-the-season get-together.

4. We'll have a fall "clean up the garden" work day in October... date to be decided.

See you at the garden,

Mary

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Other community events that may be of interest:

1. City Sprouts Irrigation Workshop Saturday Sept. 12

City Sprouts Omaha is hosting a workshop to showcase a new bucket drip irrigation design. Modeled from a concept intended for subsistence agriculture in developing countries, this setup works equally well for community plots and personal backyard gardens.

Come learn how to build a simple watering system from commonly available supplies ($5) and add your input to help improve the construction

This workshop is hosted by Scott Williams, recent engineering graduate of Iowa State University. If you are interested please contact Jeanine Dickens at (402)-680-0118.

When: Saturday, September 12th (10am - 11am)
Where: City Sprouts (4007 Franklin St.)
Cost: FREE!

2. Green Homes Tour Sat. Sept. 19

The 2009 Green Homes Tour is an opportunity for metro area residents to learn how to green their living environments. The event will showcase four west Omaha homes, and each will feature a different theme. Three of the homes are undergoing a series of green home improvement projects. "Before" and "after" data on energy use will be available. The fourth home on the tour is a new Energy Star home. Free shuttle service to the tour homes will be available at Village Pointe.

New to this year's tour is an information fair at Village Pointe in conjunction with its weekly Farmers Market. Vendors will include area businesses and nonprofits interested in green living.

Admission: $5 per person (proceeds to help fund programs and activities of the Green Omaha Coalition) - Tickets can be purchased at each of the tour homes.

Host: The Green Omaha Coalition and U.S. Green Building Council, Flatwater Chapter
When: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 (9:00am to Noon)
Where: Village Pointe

If you would like more information contact: Ron Duce, Kiewit Building Group Inc.(402.977.4500 or ron.duce@kiewit.com) OR Brian Spencer, RDG Planning and Design (402.679.7465 or bspencer@rdgusa.com)

3. Benson Community Garden

If anyone is interested in working to help start a Benson Community Garden, please contact Carol Dona at carol.l.dona@gmail.com

4. Choose Real Foods You may want to check out this local website/blog, http://www.chooserealfoods.org/

5. Fall Garden Clean-Up Article

The Omaha World-Herald had a story this week about fall garden clean-up. Featured Master Gardener Mary Anna Anderson will be coming to our Oct. clean-up to help us get on the right track with cleaning up our Dundee Community Garden beds. You can read the story at http://www.omaha.com/article/20090910/LIVING/709109859

6. Whole Foods threatens to Sue the Organic Consumers Association

For information on the threat by Whole Foods Market to sue the Organic Consumers Association, go to

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27761