Dundee Community Garden This Week: 30 August

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

Did you see our giant carrot in the Dundee Day Parade?  Thanks to everyone who donated produce for our Dundee Day Sale.  We made about $170 by selling produce and flowers.  And great job Tancy and Vince on some impressive Chico bag sales.  Anyone with photos from the parade, please post them on our website at http://www.dundeegarden.org/, or on our facebook page!

NEXT HARVEST NIGHT THIS MONDAY AT 7: We're planning to finally get those picnic tables sanded and varnished, and we can use some extra help with that! As always, bring gloves, scissors, and other gardening tools to help with harvesting and weeding.  We'll be harvesting for Together, Inc.'s food pantry.

VOLUNTEER HOURS CHART: We're planning to post a volunteer hours chart at the garden this week. The chart is based on the hours that have been recorded so far in our work-night notebook.  If you've volunteered some hours at other times, that have not been recorded in the notebook, you can update the chart to reflect your hours.  If you want to volunteer at a time other than a work night, the beds can always use weeding and dead-heading. Each garden member is expected to contribute eight hours working in the community plots over the course of the gardening season.  

EXTRA PRODUCE ALWAYS ACCEPTED FOR THE FOOD PANTRY!  Let us know if we can pick from your plot if you're not coming to the harvest night!  And if you have produce that is neglected and very ripe, we'll go ahead and add it to our food pantry box! 

SAVE THESE DATES: 

Sunday Sept. 26, 3-5 p.m.  Fall Harvest Party and Pot-Luck

Sunday Oct. 17, 1-4 p.m.  Fall Clean-Up

New Community Garden starting in Dundee

Hello Dundee Community Garden Wait-listed people, Members, and Friends,

I'm passing along this information about a second community garden being developed in Dundee!  Mike Elson is taking the lead on this.  Please see his message below and contact Mike if you are interested.  Mary

From Mike:

Recent local actions have resulted in the opportunity for a short-term community garden site in Dundee at the lot at 49^th Street and Farnam Street at the northeast corner of the intersection.  

The site is offered on a temporary basis by its owners, Holland Basham Architects.  Some initial discussions, followed by a meeting on July 30^th lead to quick actions, including funding from the firm to start the project.

"Temporary" means we are more or less assured for full season of 2011, with probably the next one or maybe 2 as well.  The owner - while supportive of the gardening - has fully expressed the possibility of developing the site in the future, pending approval of market conditions.  They have already been planning options and already have obtained the City of Omaha's zoning approval for putting a structure and some parking space there in the future.

A few volunteers put things in motion and the garden bed building phase has begun.  Some beds were built by August 15^th and seeded for fall 2010 crops.  There is much additional work to be done (Volunteers interested in helping would be appreciated). 

Opportunities for gardening will be offered (or added to a waiting list) as space allows.  The site has some garden plots presently available and ready for use.  There is also room for expansion, with plenty of time to "BYOB" (Build Your Own Bed) before the next season in Spring 2011.

People interested in gardening at this location are encouraged to first take a look at the site, and if still interested, be prepared to volunteer some time at the location.

You can receive more information from:

Mike Elson:

agroplus@cox.net

402.670.2899

Dundee Community Garden This Week - August 22

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

NO HARVEST NIGHT THIS MONDAY AUG. 23   We're holding back on our produce this week so that we can sell it at our table at Dundee Day, this Saturday Aug. 28.

HARVEST NIGHT WILL BE HELD FRIDAY AUG. 27 at 6 p.m.  We'll be harvesting for Dundee Day.

CAN WE PICK FROM YOUR PLOT???  

Let us know if we can pick some ripe produce from your plot Friday evening that we can sell at Dundee Day.

DUNDEE DAY PARADE SAT. AUG. 28 at 10 a.m.   We'd love a crowd to march with us in the parade!  Bring yourself and any extra family members you can corral.  We need people to carry our paper-mache carrot, our banner, etc.  We'll be meeting in the Brownell-Talbot parking lot off Underwood Ave. at 10 a.m.  The parade starts at 10:30.   Apparel: wear a Dundee Community Garden t-shirt, or anything that suggests gardening, or be creative and dress up like a vegetable!  (Note: if you want to purchase a DCG t-shirt for $15 to wear in the parade, contact Eric at mrerlo@gmail.com).  Come march with us-- the more the merrier!

EXTRA PRODUCE  If you have extra produce, or cutting flowers, that you'd be willing to donate to out Dundee Day booth, please drop them off on Saturday at the booth. Or you can bring them to the harvest night Friday evening Aug. 27.

BOARD MEETING TUESDAY:

 Our next board meeting, open to all members, is Tues. Aug. 24, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian.  We're usually in the basement dining room.  We'll be making signs for the table on Saturday as well as finalizing plans for the booth, etc.

VOLUNTEER HOURS: 

Just a reminder that we're expecting each plot owner to contribute 8 hours towards working in the garden on the community plots.  We'll be posting a chart soon to track volunteer hours at the garden.  If you have volunteered some hours that have not been recorded in the red volunteer notebook, shoot me an e-mail at megreen4@cox.net to let me know how much time you've contributed.  

 

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Other gardening news: 

SUSTAINABLE FARM TOUR THURS. AUG. 26, 7 pm :  Join Sierra Club members and friends for a tour of a small sustainable organic farm.  Rhizosphere Farm in Waterloo is a "certified naturally grown" farm, owned by Terra Sorenson and Matt Hall. The tour will show us the greenhouse where the seedlings are started, the out-building, used for washing crops and prepartion for market, and of course the fields wehre the owners practive intensive growing of heirloom crops.  The tour will be preceded by an optional pot-luck at 6 p.m. More information at http://sierranebraska.org  

Dundee Community Garden This Week - 9 August

 As always, bring gloves, scissors, and other gardening tools to help with harvesting and weeding.  So far this summer, we've donated over 200 pounds of vegetables to Together, Inc.'s food pantry!

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

HARVEST NIGHT MONDAYS AT 7:

EXTRA PRODUCE ALWAYS ACCEPTED FOR THE FOOD PANTRY!  Let us know if we can pick from your plot if you're not coming to the harvest night!  And if you have produce that is neglected and very ripe, we'll go ahead and add it to our food pantry box!

VOLUNTEER HOURS: Remember to sign in your volunteer hours in the notebook when you help at a harvest night!  Each garden member is expected to contribute eight hours working in the community plots over the course of the gardening season. 

DUNDEE DAY PARADE:We'll be marching in the Dundee Day Parade on Sat. Aug. 28-- carrying a large carrot, of course!  All members and friends invited to join us in the parade!  Parade guidelines:  please wear a Dundee Community Garden t-shirt or a costume (as a vegetable, a farmer/gardener, etc.) to walk in the parade.

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Other gardening news: 

SUSTAINABLE FARM TOUR THURS. AUG. 26, 7 pm :  Join Sierra Club members and friends for a tour of a small sustainable organic farm.  Rhizosphere Farm in Waterloo is a "certified naturally grown" farm, owned by Terra Sorenson and Matt Hall. The tour will show us the greenhouse where the seedlings are started, the out-building, used for washing crops and prepartion for market, and of course the fields wehre the owners practive intensive growing of heirloom crops.  The tour will be preceded by an optional pot-luck at 6 p.m. More information at http://sierranebraska.org/ 

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_3_205/ai_64702592/

INTERESTING WEBSITES:   This information on how to harvest and store tomato seeds comes from garden member Adam Krtek and may be of interest to gardeners: 

Dundee Community Garden This Week

 There's lots of produce we can pick for out weekly harvest night tonight.  Please remember to bring gardening gloves, scissors (even a pair of kitchen scissors), and other tools for harvesting.  There's some major weeding we need to do in the flower beds, so a shovel would be helpful too.  If a Monday night harvest night gets rained out, it will be postponed until Tuesday.

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

HARVEST NIGHT TONIGHT AT 7:

CARROT PARTY SAT. AUG. 7: Join us for a carrot-making party and pot-luck dinner.  We'll be making a large carrot out of paper mache for the Dundee Day Parade on Aug. 28.  We'll be making the carrot at the Hickman's, 1227 N. 53rd. St.  Bring newspapers.  We'll work on the carrot from 3-5, then have a pot-luck dinner at 5.  Bring a dish (using carrots if you wish) to share.  RSVP to Deb and Curt at 553-3906, or to curt3@cox.net, if you will be coming!

DUNDEE DAY PARADE:We'll be marching in the Dundee Day Parade on Sat. Aug. 28-- carrying a large carrot, of course!  All members and friends invited to join us in the parade!  Parade guidelines:  please wear a Dundee Community Garden t-shirt or a costume (as a vegetable, a farmer/gardener, etc.) to walk in the parade.

EXTRA PRODUCE ALWAYS ACCEPTED FOR THE FOOD PANTRY!  Let us know if we can pick from your plot if you're not coming to the harvest night!

VOLUNTEER HOURS: Remember to sign in your volunteer hours in the notebook when you help at a harvest night!  Each garden member is expected to contribute eight hours working in the community plots over the course of the gardening season.