Dear Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Thank you to Rose Edzie for volunteering to be our new membership chair.
We are still looking for a new treasurer. If you are interested, please contact us! Or if you know of someone who might be willing to take on this task, please pass along their name so we can contact them. We really need a new treasurer in place before we start collecting membership dues in 2012.
Treasurer Position: pay bills including annual insurance and reimbursements for garden supplies. Prepare basic budget for board meetings showing monthly income and expenses. Annual budget is under $2,500.
As mentioned before, we are working on getting our NE non-profit status, and would also like to get 501(c)3 tax exempt status, with a long-term goal of buying the property.
Additionally, if you know of someone who might be willing to offer pro bono legal assistance in helping us with the federal non-profit filing, please let us know that as well.
Thank you,
DCG Board
Monday, December 12, 2011
DCG Needs Treasurer
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Volunteers Needed for Yates Community Garden Build
Hello Dundee Community Garden members and friends,
This Saturday, DECEMBER 10, we will be assembling and situating 19 garden beds. We would LOVE volunteers and friends from the Dundee Community Garden assist with this project and help the work go faster. There will be two shifts: 8 am - 12 at Lowes, 76th and Dodge, to construct the raised beds, and 12 pm - 3 at Yates, 3620 Davenport, to situate the beds and fill with soil.
I invite you to join in helping Omaha's newest mid-town community garden get it's winter jump-start for spring! This new garden will be at the Yates Community Center for refugees and immigrants, at 3260 Davenport St.
This Saturday, DECEMBER 10, we will be assembling and situating 19 garden beds. We would LOVE volunteers and friends from the Dundee Community Garden assist with this project and help the work go faster. There will be two shifts: 8 am - 12 at Lowes, 76th and Dodge, to construct the raised beds, and 12 pm - 3 at Yates, 3620 Davenport, to situate the beds and fill with soil.
Volunteer for one or both shifts! FYI, we'll have hot beverages and snacks for everyone and expect the building to be open for periodic warming rests.
Thanks for helping make Omaha a welcoming place for the newest members of our community!
Mary
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,Thanks to everyone who helped with the Fall Clean-Up on Sunday. We dug up approximately 700 pounds of sweet potatoes!!! We donated two loaded grocery carts to the folks at the Underwood Tower across the street, another 25 pounds or so to the immigrants at the Yates Community Center, and of course our members who helped with the fall clean-up all got a good supply to take home.Every year we've increased our food donations-- this year, 750 pounds total over the course of the summer! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped us with these "community plots!"
PLOT CLEAN-UP All gardeners are responsible for cleaning up their individual plots. You must clean out your plot in order to get a plot next year. You will need to bring a yard waste bag for cleaning out your plot-- out compost bins don't have enough space for the plant materials from 44 plots! Please set the yard waste bags out with your city yard waste pick-up-- or set out with a neighbors if you live in an apartment and don't have yard waste pick-up. (The city does not pick up at our garden site.)
Please have all plots cleaned out by Nov. 1.
END OF YEAR SURVEY: We are again asking our members to complete the brief survey (attached) to give us your feedback on our garden's third season. Please take a couple minutes and fill out. Return to Mary at megreen4@cox.net, or if you wish to be anonymous, you can mail it to our treasurer Deb Hickman at 1227 N. 53rd St., Omaha, 68132.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
LAST HARVEST NIGHT THIS WED. AT 6:00 p.m. Please join us if you can help pick produce for the Underwood Tower. We'll pick everything we can before cleaning out the plots this weekend.
FALL CLEAN-UP Sun. Oct. 16, 1-4 p.m. We will need lots of help digging up the sweet potatoes and cleaning out the community beds, so bring shovels and garden tools for the fall clean-up. You'll also want to bring a yard waste bag for cleaning out your own plot. We plan to have a trailer there to collect the yard waste bags.
Note: if you clean out your own plot before Oct. 16, leave the yard waste bag in your plot and we'll load it on the trailer on Oct. 16. If you clean out your plot after Oct. 16, you will need to dispose of your own yard waste bag.
We will also have surveys at the garden so you can give us your feedback on how this season went for you.
Please have all plots cleaned out by Nov. 1.
CANNA BULBS: We will also need volunteers to help store the canna bulbs over the winter.
MAYOR MAKING DUNDEE AWARD PRESENTATION WED. 10:30 a.m. Mayor Jim Suttle and Bruce Knight of the national American Planning Association will be giving neighborhood representatives the official award for "Great Places in American Neighborhoods" on Wednesday, October 12th at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Dundee Clock at 50th & Underwood. Our Dundee Community Garden is a part of the reason our neighborhood is getting this award!
DUNDEE GARDEN PAINTING Check out this link to a painting by Bill Hoover titled "Dundee Garden Project" that will be in the Bemis Art Auction this weekend. (Thank you to Sandy D. for pointing this out!)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
DUNDEE COMMUNITY GARDEN CONTRIBUTES TO MAKING THE DUNDEE-MEMORIAL PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ONE OF THE NATIONS'S 10 BEST NEIGHBORHOODS! Check out the article in today's Omaha World-Herald at: http://www.omaha.com/article/20111004/NEWS01/710049946#dundee-rated-among-the-bestFull article copied at end of this e-mail.
LAST TWO WEDNESDAY NIGHT HARVEST NIGHTS, 6:00 p.m. For these last two weeks we'll continue harvesting at 6 p.m. Please join us if you can help pick produce for the Underwood Tower. And let us know if we can pick extra produce from your plot to donate!
FALL CLEAN-UP Sun. Oct. 16, 1-4 p.m. We will need lots of help digging up the sweet potatoes and cleaning out the community beds, so bring shovels and garden tools for the fall clean-up. You'll also want to bring a yard waste bag for cleaning out your own plot. We plan to have a trailer there to collect the yard waste bags.
Note: if you clean out your own plot before Oct. 16, leave the yard waste bag in your plot and we'll load it on the trailer on Oct. 16. If you clean out your plot after Oct. 16, you will need to dispose of your own yard waste bag.
Please have all plots cleaned out by Nov. 1.
CANNA BULBS: We will also need volunteers to help store the canna bulbs over the winter.
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Dundee Neighborhood Rated Among the Best (article from today's Omaha World-Herald)
Omaha's Dundee-Memorial Park neighborhood is one of the nation's 10 best, according to annual rankings published by a nonprofit community development group.The American Planning Association cited the midtown neighborhood for its "varied residential architecture, strong sense of community and ongoing commitment of residents to care for and beautify the neighborhood."
Association officials also pointed to the neighborhood's inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and its amenities: public spaces, parks, shopping and upscale homes.
Dundee was an early Omaha suburb, built at the end of a streetcar line.
The planning group noted the hundreds of flower baskets that hang from restored historic street lamps, thanks to residents' efforts; the waiting list for the neighborhood garden; and plans for a community orchard. Volunteers tend street island gardens and staff special events.The honor for Dundee "just gives more reinforcement to what we already know, but it certainly tells everybody else the great things that we're doing here," said Dave Schinzel, president of the Dundee-Memorial Park Neighborhood Association. "It's the people living here who are responsible for the things we are doing."
The organization's nine other "great neighborhoods" for 2011 are: Gold Coast and Hamburg Historic District, Davenport, Iowa; Swan Lake, Tulsa, Okla.; Highland Park, Birmingham, Ala.; Northbrae, Berkeley, Calif.; Ansley Park, Atlanta, Ga.; the Pullman Neighborhood, Chicago; Hattiesburg Historic Neighborhood, Hattiesburg, Miss.; German Village, Columbus, Ohio; and College Hill, Providence, R.I.
Contact the writer: 402-444-1068, johnny.perez@owh.com, twitter.com/PerezJr
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
WEDNESDAY WORK NIGHT/ HARVEST NIGHTS CONTINUE AT 6:30 We'll continue picking at 6:30 for the next two weeks-- then we'll start picking at 6 p.m. the last week of Sept. The neighbors at the Underwood Tower are very appreciative!
FALL CLEAN-UP AND MEMORIAL PARK FRUIT TREE PLANTING coming in October-- more information coming soon.
Check us out on Facebook at Facebook.com/DundeeGarden-- we've got some great photos!
********COMMUNITY EVENTS: Seed Saving; Urban Food Deserts; Slow Food Pizza and Beer Dinner with Local Foods
Green Neighborhood Council Green Lunch Workshop: Fall Seed Saving and Planting -- And a Seed Exchange
When: Wed. Sept. 21, 12 to 1 p.m.
Speaker: Kathy Jeffers, Master Gardener
Where: Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
Celebrate the beginning of fall by participating in a workshop on seed saving, planting, and exchanging. Kathy Jeffers, Master Gardener of UNL Omaha Extension will discuss how to save and plant native seeds in the fall to create beautiful low-maintenance gardens in the spring that will attract wildlife to your backyard. Whether you're planning a new project or additions to your existing gardens, Kathy will help you get started. A seed exchange will follow the discussion.
The Green Neighborhood Council invites you to bring a lunch and some native wildflower or grass seeds to exchange, but both are optional. The seeds can be ones you've saved from your garden or commercial seeds leftover from your spring planting.
Sierra Club September Program: "Local Foods: Bridging Urban Sustainability and Rural Renewal" with No More Empty Pots leaders Susan Whitfield and Nancy Williams
Thursday Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 7020 Cass St., Omaha
(Enter north door education wing)
'Food deserts,' or places in the industrialized world where healthy, affordable food is hard to obtain, exist in Nebraska, in both urban and rural areas. No More Empty Pots is an organization that began for the purpose of connecting individuals and groups to promote local businesses that improve self-sufficiency, and food security, of local urban and rural communities.
NMEP has organized several initiatives, including launching a Community Market Basket project in June, 2011, to distribute fresh local farm produce weekly in North Omaha at the Charles Drew Health Center.
Join the Sierra Club to find out more about local food sustainability issues, and what the group No More Empty Pots is doing to improve food security and self-sufficiency in our region. Sierra Club programs are free and open to the public. More information at sierranebraska.org
'The Food Localmotion' Green Pizza and Beer Local Foods Dinner
A dinner with Chef Nick Strawhecker (Dante Pizzeria) featuring pizza with veggies from Rhizosphere Farm (Waterloo, NE), cheese from Branched Oak Farm (Raymond, NE), and Lucky Bucket Beer.
Meet the growers, chef, and food artisans!
$20 per person. Space is limited and reservations are REQUIRED!
Event will be held at Lucky Bucket Brewery, 11941 Centennial Rd, La Vista, NE, 68128, and includes a tour of the brewery and a 12-oz glass of beer.
For tickets or more information: kdeffenbacher@cox.net, or slowfoodomaha@gmail.com
Sponsored by Slow Food Omaha, Green Omaha Coalition, and the Omaha Sierra Club.
WEDNESDAY WORK NIGHT/ HARVEST NIGHTS CONTINUE AT 6:30 We'll continue picking at 6:30 for the next two weeks-- then we'll start picking at 6 p.m. the last week of Sept. The neighbors at the Underwood Tower are very appreciative!
FALL CLEAN-UP AND MEMORIAL PARK FRUIT TREE PLANTING coming in October-- more information coming soon.
Check us out on Facebook at Facebook.com/DundeeGarden-- we've got some great photos!
********COMMUNITY EVENTS: Seed Saving; Urban Food Deserts; Slow Food Pizza and Beer Dinner with Local Foods
Green Neighborhood Council Green Lunch Workshop: Fall Seed Saving and Planting -- And a Seed Exchange
When: Wed. Sept. 21, 12 to 1 p.m.
Speaker: Kathy Jeffers, Master Gardener
Where: Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
Celebrate the beginning of fall by participating in a workshop on seed saving, planting, and exchanging. Kathy Jeffers, Master Gardener of UNL Omaha Extension will discuss how to save and plant native seeds in the fall to create beautiful low-maintenance gardens in the spring that will attract wildlife to your backyard. Whether you're planning a new project or additions to your existing gardens, Kathy will help you get started. A seed exchange will follow the discussion.
The Green Neighborhood Council invites you to bring a lunch and some native wildflower or grass seeds to exchange, but both are optional. The seeds can be ones you've saved from your garden or commercial seeds leftover from your spring planting.
Sierra Club September Program: "Local Foods: Bridging Urban Sustainability and Rural Renewal" with No More Empty Pots leaders Susan Whitfield and Nancy Williams
Thursday Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 7020 Cass St., Omaha
(Enter north door education wing)
'Food deserts,' or places in the industrialized world where healthy, affordable food is hard to obtain, exist in Nebraska, in both urban and rural areas. No More Empty Pots is an organization that began for the purpose of connecting individuals and groups to promote local businesses that improve self-sufficiency, and food security, of local urban and rural communities.
NMEP has organized several initiatives, including launching a Community Market Basket project in June, 2011, to distribute fresh local farm produce weekly in North Omaha at the Charles Drew Health Center.
Join the Sierra Club to find out more about local food sustainability issues, and what the group No More Empty Pots is doing to improve food security and self-sufficiency in our region. Sierra Club programs are free and open to the public. More information at sierranebraska.org
'The Food Localmotion' Green Pizza and Beer Local Foods Dinner
A dinner with Chef Nick Strawhecker (Dante Pizzeria) featuring pizza with veggies from Rhizosphere Farm (Waterloo, NE), cheese from Branched Oak Farm (Raymond, NE), and Lucky Bucket Beer.
Meet the growers, chef, and food artisans!
$20 per person. Space is limited and reservations are REQUIRED!
Event will be held at Lucky Bucket Brewery, 11941 Centennial Rd, La Vista, NE, 68128, and includes a tour of the brewery and a 12-oz glass of beer.
For tickets or more information: kdeffenbacher@cox.net, or slowfoodomaha@gmail.com
Sponsored by Slow Food Omaha, Green Omaha Coalition, and the Omaha Sierra Club.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Fwd: Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
Thanks to our members who staffed the garden last weekend for the Omaha Agri-Fair Community Gardens Tour!
WEDNESDAY WORK NIGHT/ HARVEST NIGHTS NOW AT 6:30 We're starting a little earlier with our weekly harvest nights as it is getting dark so early! Just a few more weeks of harvest nights left for the season!
NEXT DCG BOARD MEETING: Tues. Sept. 13, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian Church, dining room. All members welcome!
FREE CANNING JARS Look for some used canning jars that need a new home-- they're being left at the garden by a neighbor... help yourself if you can use them! Also look for some new Ball canning brochures.
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Green Neighborhood Council Green Lunch Workshop: Fall Seed Saving and Planting -- And a Seed Exchange
When: Wed. Sept. 21, 12 to 1 p.m.
Speaker: Kathy Jeffers, Master GardenerWhere: Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
Speaker: Kathy Jeffers, Master GardenerWhere: Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
Celebrate the beginning of fall by participating in a workshop on seed saving, planting, and exchanging. Kathy Jeffers, Master Gardener of UNL Omaha Extension will discuss how to save and plant native seeds in the fall to create beautiful low-maintenance gardens in the spring that will attract wildlife to your backyard. Whether you're planning a new project or additions to your existing gardens, Kathy will help you get started. A seed exchange will follow the discussion.
The Green Neighborhood Council invites you to bring a lunch and some native wildflower or grass seeds to exchange, but both are optional. The seeds can be ones you've saved from your garden or commercial seeds leftover from your spring planting.
The Green Neighborhood Council invites you to bring a lunch and some native wildflower or grass seeds to exchange, but both are optional. The seeds can be ones you've saved from your garden or commercial seeds leftover from your spring planting.
Sierra Club September Program: "Local Foods: Bridging Urban Sustainability and Rural Renewal" with No More Empty Pots leaders Susan Whitfield and Nancy Williams
Thursday Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 7020 Cass St., Omaha
(Enter north door education wing)
'Food deserts,' or places in the industrialized world where healthy, affordable food is hard to obtain, exist in Nebraska, in both urban and rural areas. No More Empty Pots is an organization that began for the purpose of connecting individuals and groups to promote local businesses that improve self-sufficiency, and food security, of local urban and rural communities.
NMEP has organized several initiatives, including launching a Community Market Basket project in June, 2011, to distribute fresh local farm produce weekly in North Omaha at the Charles Drew Health Center.
Join the Sierra Club to find out more about local food sustainability issues, and what the group No More Empty Pots is doing to improve food security and self-sufficiency in our region. Sierra Club programs are free and open to the public. More information at sierranebraska.org
'The Food Localmotion' Green Pizza and Beer Local Foods Dinner
A dinner with Chef Nick Strawhecker (Dante Pizzeria) featuring pizza with veggies from Rhizosphere Farm (Waterloo, NE), cheese from Branched Oak Farm (Raymond, NE), and Lucky Bucket Beer.
Meet the growers, chef, and food artisans!
$20 per person
Event will be held at Lucky Bucket Brewery, 11941 Centennial Rd, La Vista, NE, 68128, and includes a tour of the brewery and a 12-oz glass of beer.
Sponsored by Slow Food Omaha, Green Omaha Coalition, and the Omaha Sierra Club.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
Thanks to everyone who walked with us in the Dundee Day Parade last weekend, and helped at our booth! It was a beautiful day and we had a great time! Pictures coming soon on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/DundeeGarden
WEEKLY WORK NIGHT/ HARVEST NIGHT TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AT 7 P.M. The residents of the Underwood Tower have really appreciated the weekly grocery cart we bring over that is full of fresh veggies. Come help harvest! And we need to spruce up the garden to make it look its best for tours this weekend! (see below)
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) AT 7 P.M. Now is peak picking and swapping season! We had two people from the neighborhood (non-garden members ) show up last week wanting to trade produce, and it's kind of fun to go home with something new, that you didn't grow! Come join us!
OMAHA AGRI-FAIR COMMUNITY GARDENS TOUR SEPT. 3 & 4 (LABOR DAY WEEKEND) Celebrate urban agriculture by touring local community gardens. Our garden will be one of the stops on the tour. Other gardens include Gifford Park, City Sprouts, NorthStar, and more. Gardens will have volunteers to give free tours on Saturday from 10-4, or Sunday 12-4, or both days. (Dundee Community Garden will have volunteers Sunday only.) More information at bensonplantrescue.org/ (Note: tours are now free!)
PLEASE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN YOUR PLOT Be considerate of other plot owners and keep the weed seeds down-- just toss the weeds in the compost bins. Let's keep the plots looking good!
FREE OMA-GROW We have some Oma-Grow in the NE corner of the garden-- help yourself if you can use any extra!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
NO WORK NIGHT THIS WEDNESDAY! We're canceling Wednesday's work night so we can pick produce on FRIDAY to sell at our Dundee Day table.
HARVEST EVENING THIS FRI. AUG. 26, 4:30-5:30. If you're available to help pick, please join us! And let us know if we can pick produce from your plot to sell on Saturday!
DUNDEE DAY SAT. AUG. 27:PARADE : We'd love to have a big group walk with us, and our giant carrot, in the Dundee Day Parade! Meet at the Brownell-Talbot parking lot on Underwood Ave. between 10 and 10:15 a.m. The parade starts at 10:30, and ends up at 50th & Underwood. Sign up here at sign up form, or on the sheet at the garden.TABLE: We'll have a table at Dundee Day from 9-2 selling garden produce and flowers. If you can help staff our table with a one-hour shift, sign up here at sign up form, or on the sheet at the garden. BAGS NEEDED: please bring plastic bags, or re-usable cloth bags that you no longer want, for using at our table. Muffins provided to all volunteers!
OTHER INFORMATION/ COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Composting workshopThurs. Sept. 8, 7-8 p.m.$5It is an hour that evening and will introduce how to get started with composting. I'll attach the flyer for the class.
Bobbi Holm
Extension Educator-Urban Environment
UNL Extension in Douglas and Sarpy Counties
8015 W. Center Road
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 444-7875
bholm2@unl.edu
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
WEEKLY WORK NIGHTS WEDNESDAYS AT 7 P.M.
We always need more people! Come help us pick for the Underwood Tower. And we've got lots of volunteer projects that need attention!
Can't come on Wednesday nights for your volunteer work hours? See next item.
NEW BULLETIN/ DRY ERASE BOARD, & VOLUNTEER WORK HOURS You may have noticed our new bulletin/dry erase board at the back of the garden. We'll be posting chores that volunteers can do on the board, so any time you're at the garden and want to contribute to your volunteer hours, check the board and see what needs to be done! And remember to record you volunteer hours on the posted log sheet. We give a huge thank-you to carpenter and neighborhood angel Jim Saville for completing this project!
THE WEEDS ARE TAKING OVER! Please be courteous of your fellow gardeners, and do not let weeds take over your plot and spread their seeds throughout the garden! All gardeners are responsible for keeping the weeds out of their individual plots. And, from our DCG Guidelines: If my plot becomes unkempt, I understand I will be given two weeks notice to clean it up. At that time, it will be reassigned or tilled in.
Similarly, you need to pull diseased and insect-infested plants out of your plot so they don't spread to others. See Composting below for disposal information.
COMPOSTING NOTES: Most weeds and other plant matter should be tossed in the compost bins. Two exceptions are:
1) Diseased / insect infested plants. The diseases can stay alive in the compost, and so any plants with diseases such as blight, leaf spot, fungus, etc, or with insect infestations, should be tossed in the yard waste bags and put out with the city's yard waste. DO NOT PLACE THEM IN OUR COMPOST BIN or the diseases/ insects will get spread more widely in the garden! Yard wast bags for diseased plants can be found in the plastic tub near the bulletin board.
2) Sticks do not decompose fast enough for our compost, and make turning the compost more difficult, so please put sticks in the bucket by the compost bins, not in with the compost.
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP WEDNESDAYS AT 7 P.M. Let's get swapping! Bring some extra produce, or any food items, to swap with others!
GARDENING TIP OF THE WEEK from master gardener Rebecca Reagan: It is not too late to plan a fall garden Here are some plants that do well in the cooler temperatures: arugula, beets, collards , kale, lettuce , peas, radishes, , spinach, Swiss chard, turnips. Broccoli , cabbage and cauliflower are good candidates; it is too late to start them from seeds, so look for seedlings (transplants) at garden stores. Good reference---http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1343/build/g1343.pdf
DUNDEE DAY SAT. AUG. 27 We'll have a table at Dundee Day from 9-2 to sell garden produce and flowers, and we'll be marching in the parade that starts at 10:30. Watch for sign-up opportunities! All members and friends welcome to walk in the parade with the giant carrot, or help staff our table.
GRASS CLIPPINGS STILL NEEDED: We've been getting some clippings, but can always use more! Please spread any clippings you bring up to any of our community plots. Right now the squash by the alley are in greatest need of more mulch.
OTHER INFORMATION/ EVENTS:
Article from DishOmaha on freezing your summer harvest for later savoring:
Canning Classes in August at Douglas County Extension Office:
see p.7 of the link below
Composting workshop
Thurs. Sept. 8, 7-8 p.m.
$5
It is an hour that evening and will introduce how to get started with composting. I'll attach the flyer for the class. Bobbi Holm
Extension Educator-Urban Environment
UNL Extension in Douglas and Sarpy Counties
8015 W. Center Road
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 444-7875
bholm2@unl.edu
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. Vince Lombardi
Extension Educator-Urban Environment
UNL Extension in Douglas and Sarpy Counties
8015 W. Center Road
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 444-7875
bholm2@unl.edu
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. Vince Lombardi
Monday, July 18, 2011
Dundee Community Garden Work Nights Now Wednesdays
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
WEEKLY WORK NIGHTS RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAYS AT 7 P.M.
We're hoping we'll get more volunteers to help with our harvest nights by changing our work nights to Wednesdays. Please come if you can help us pick from the community beds-- we take it right over to the Underwood Towers once we've picked! And we've got a lot of weeds growing that need some attention!
KEEP YOUR PLOTS PICKED: Some plots are looking a bit neglected-- remember that we are picking produce that is over-sized and about to spoil-- we'll add it to our donations to the Underwood Tower-- so please keep your plots picked! Also please keep your plants contained in your plots so the lawn mowers can get through!
GRASS CLIPPINGS NEEDED: We need more grass clippings for mulch!!! Please dump your grass clippings around the sweet potatoes (in area between sidewalk and street.) And if anyone knows someone with a yard service, can you ask them to drop off their grass clippings at the north side of the sweet potato plot?
WATERMELON FEED WITH LIVE MUSIC SUNDAY JULY 31, 3-5 P.M.
Music by "We Are Static" and watermelon for 50¢ a slice! Come for a chance to win the watermelon-seed spitting contest!
Monday, July 11, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week/ Roofing the Tool Rack
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
MONDAY NIGHTHARVEST NIGHT:
ROOF BUILDING ANDJust a reminder that Monday nights are our weekly work night/harvest night. Please come between 7-8 p.m. if you can help harvest from the food pantry plot, weed, water, etc. We donate fresh-picked produce to the resident of the Underwood Towers across the street as soon as we're done picking! Also we'll be roofing the tool rack/ sign board. We need people to help hammer shingles. Please help!
NEXT DCG BOARD MEETING: Thurs. July 14, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian Church, dining room. All members welcome!
SAVE THE DATE: WATERMELON FEED SUNDAY JULY 31, 3-5 P.M.
KEEP YOUR PLOTS PICKED: We're starting to see some plots with produce not getting picked. As a reminder, our by-laws state: "I will harvest my crops when ripe. I understand that if I do not regularly pick my produce when it is ripe, my plants may be harvested by other garden members during group work nights, and my ripe produce will be donated to the Food Pantry."
TAKE CARE FOR THE MOWERS: We have great volunteers who mow the garden every week. Please help them out by keeping the areas between plots cleared of any rocks, bricks, and over-abundant plants. Thank you to our mowers!
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP EVERY MONDAY AT 7: The weekly food swap continues every Monday evening at 7 pm, at the Dundee Community Garden. Neighbors are invited to bring their surplus garden produce, baked goods, homemade jam, and more to trade with others. Bring something to trade, and take home something new!
Monday, July 4, 2011
Fwd: Dundee Community Garden Next Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Harvest Night/ Roof Raising on Tues. July 5, 7 p.m. We're moving our weekly harvest night to Tues. next week due to the Fourth of July holiday. Come help us pick greens, do some weeding, and hammer in the shingles for the rood of our new sign-board. Last week we picked enough greens from our food pantry plot to fill a grocery cart to the top at the Underwood Towers!
Next DCG Board Meeting: Thurs. July 14, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian Church, dining room. All members welcome!
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Open House and Solar Etching Party at 49th & Farnam Community Garden, Sunday July 3, 1-2:30 pm
Bring the kids and come out to enjoy some iced tea and cookies and practice solar etching: wood etching with the sun. This is one of the easiest activities you can do for solar energy education. Using a magnifying lens and using sunlight like a wood etching tool, you may create beautiful artwork! Some scrap wood will be available, and our gardeners can decorate wood stakes for their garden plots. Bring along dark glasses, pieces of wood, and magnifying lenses if you have them. Also view demonstrations of solar-powered devices.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Fwd: Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello DCG Members and Friends,
MONDAY NIGHT HARVEST NIGHT/ WORK NIGHT / TOOL RACK & SIGN BOARD BUILDING NIGHT:
Just a reminder that Monday nights are our weekly work night/harvest night. Please come between 7-8 p.m. if you can help harvest from the food pantry plot, weed, water, etc. Also we'll continue working on the sign-board-- we'll be staining it and more! Please help!
FREE RASPBERRY BUSHES: We're still working on digging up the raspberry bushes. Come and dig one up if you want it! Please bring a shovel and clippers, if you have them, to help us with the digging!
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP EVERY MONDAY AT 7: The weekly food swap continues every Monday evening at 7 pm, at the Dundee Community Garden. Neighbors are invited to bring their surplus garden produce, baked goods, homemade jam, and more to trade with others. Bring something to trade, and take home something new!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
MONDAY NIGHT HARVEST NIGHT/ WORK NIGHT / TOOL RACK & SIGN BOARD BUILDING NIGHT:
We're having our weekly Monday night harvest night/work night tomorrow (June 13), and this Monday we're going to get those raspberry bushes dug up! Please bring a shovel and clippers, if you have them, to help us with the digging! We'll also be harvesting from our food pantry plot to donate to the residents at the Underwood Tower. And for any of you with carpentry skills, you're invited to help carpenter Jim Saville, who is planning to build a sign board at the garden! Bring a pair of work gloves! We can use your help!
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SWAP EVERY MONDAY AT 7: The weekly food swap continues every Monday evening at 7 pm, at the Dundee Community Garden. Neighbors are invited to bring their surplus garden produce, baked goods, homemade jam, and more to trade with others. We had a number of people bringing greens, rhubarb, and herbs last week! Bring something to trade, and take home something new!
WEEDS, WEEDS, WEEDS: Our flower beds are full of weeds! Please use some of your volunteer hours to pull weeds! And remember, weeds go in the compost bins in the back of the garden! Not piled up in the grass between the plots! Not lying against the back wall! Please, use the compost bins!
Gardening Tip of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
June 20 is the last practical date for planting tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants!
If you have damage to your bean plant, it is probably from the bean beetle. This insect is related to our ladybug (good insect), but instead of eating aphids, the bean beetle eats plants(bad insect).
This 1/4 inch, round insect is yellowish to copper with black spots on its wing covers. Its eggs are yellow and are laid in clusters on underside of the leaves. The larva is about 1/3 inch long, yellowish to orange in color. The larva has branched spines, giving them a somewhat fuzzy appearance.
First line of defense is handpicking: pick and drop the insect into some water with a little dishwashing soap. Look for the eggs on the underside of the leaves and smash them. Insecticidal soaps can be helpful., as can neem oil. Check labels to keep in compliance with our organic-use policy.
The beetle has several enemies which enjoy feeding on the eggs, larva, etc. Hopefully they will help with control.
This insect can be an ongoing problem. Control is needed, or the beetle will very likely cause quite a bit of injury to your plant.
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Food Deserts and Public Policy Forum, Wed. June 15, 6-8 p.m. at UNO
What are food deserts? Why do they exist? And more importantly, what can be done about them? According to the US Centers for Disease Control, a food desert is an area that lacks access to affordable and healthy foods that make up a nutritious diet. Many believe that the presence of food deserts may be related to wide-ranging, preventable health problems in both rural and urban America.
On June 15, 2011, Senator Brenda Council will facilitate a panel that will focus on food deserts and their causes. Forum panelists include Rev. Stephanie Alschwede, Fritz Nordengren and Dr. Courtney Pinard, who will explore local and state policy approaches as well as community initiatives to effectively address food deserts. More information at http://ppc.nebraska.edu/SorensenSeminar/FoodDesertsandPublicPolicy&year=2011
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. The final workshop on June 18 is "What to Harvest and When." See attachment for details.
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Neighborhood Fruit Registry: If you own fruit trees or berry bushes whose harvest you are willing to share, or if you would like to pick fresh local fruit, register at www.neighborhoodfruit.com. The fruit owner notifies the registry when the fruit is ready to harvest. Volunteers are given a time and place to pick fruit. A share goes to the owner, and the rest is divided amongst the volunteers.
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Yardsharing. Neighbors who would like to garden but have no sun, and neighbors who have a sunny yard but do not garden, can pair up through the website, www.sharingbackyards.com. This website offers a secure way to connect landowner and gardener, along with tips on how to set up a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Gardening Tip of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
Continue to sow greens in your garden for an extended season. Select heat-resistant varieties, and for best results, sow small amounts about every 10 days. Choose the shadier side of your plot, perhaps in the shadow of your tomatoes or other tall crop. The greens will appreciate the shade, instead of the baking sun of summer.
Work Day this Saturday: Our next work day will be this Sat. June 4, 10-12. With the rain days, we've gotten behind in our planting-- we'd like to finish up planting the produce this weekend! And we've got cannas to plant, and there's weeding and general clean-up that we need to do to get the garden in shape... Come when you can! We ask all members to volunteer eight hours during the course of the gardening season. Please remember to record your volunteer hours on the log in the garden.
Neighborhood Food Swap Every Monday The weekly food swap will be held every Monday evening at 7 pm, at the Dundee Community Garden. Residents are invited to bring their surplus garden produce, baked goods, homemade jam, and more to trade with their neighbors. Gardeners, consider swapping your surplus greens, radishes, etc!!! Help Dundee become a "Food Community!"
Grass Clippings: We need lots!! Please bring some if you can!
Sunday June 12 Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m. Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1. We'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot. And our tomato cages were such a success at the Dundee Spring Fling that we're planning to make another batch of them to sell at the ice cream social-- this is your chance if you missed out on Saturday.
Help Mowing: We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.
Watering: Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot. You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container.
Coming in early June: Shed-Raising Party. We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board. If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Permaculture Workshop Thurs. June 2, 5:30-7:30, at Hands to Harvest Community Garden, 1113 S. 31st St. (between Pacific and Poppleton)
Free Permaculture Workshop -- Building an Herb Spiral Everyone will receive hand-outs about the basics of permaculture, easy ideas to incorporate into your garden, and information on herb spirals. Then... we will do some work building an herb spiral for all Hands to Harvest gardeners to enjoy.
What is Permaculture? Permaculture is sustainable land use design. Based on ecological and biological principles and using patterns that occur in nature to maximize effect and minimize work. Permaculture aims to create stable, productive systems that provide for human needs while harmoniously integrating the land with its inhabitants. And what is an Herb Spiral? Come and find out!
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Neighborhood Fruit Registry: If you own fruit trees or berry bushes whose harvest you are willing to share, or if you would like to pick fresh local fruit, register at www.neighborhoodfruit.com. The fruit owner notifies the registry when the fruit is ready to harvest. Volunteers are given a time and place to pick fruit. A share goes to the owner, and the rest is divided amongst the volunteers.
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Yardsharing. Neighbors who would like to garden but have no sun, and neighbors who have a sunny yard but do not garden, can pair up through the website, www.sharingbackyards.com. This website offers a secure way to connect landowner and gardener, along with tips on how to set up a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Food Deserts and Public Policy Forum, Wed. June 15, 6-8 p.m. at UNO
What are food deserts? Why do they exist? And more importantly, what can be done about them? According to the US Centers for Disease Control, a food desert is an area that lacks access to affordable and healthy foods that make up a nutritious diet. Many believe that the presence of food deserts may be related to wide-ranging, preventable health problems in both rural and urban America.
On June 15, 2011, Senator Brenda Council will facilitate a panel that will focus on food deserts and their causes. Forum panelists include Rev. Stephanie Alschwede, Fritz Nordengren and Dr. Courtney Pinard, who will explore local and state policy approaches as well as community initiatives to effectively address food deserts.
More information at http://ppc.nebraska.edu/SorensenSemina/FoodDesertsandPublicPolicy&year=2011
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. Next workshop is June 4 on “Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces and in Containers.” See attachment for full schedule.
Gardening Tip of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
Continue to sow greens in your garden for an extended season. Select heat-resistant varieties, and for best results, sow small amounts about every 10 days. Choose the shadier side of your plot, perhaps in the shadow of your tomatoes or other tall crop. The greens will appreciate the shade, instead of the baking sun of summer.
Work Day this Saturday: Our next work day will be this Sat. June 4, 10-12. With the rain days, we've gotten behind in our planting-- we'd like to finish up planting the produce this weekend! And we've got cannas to plant, and there's weeding and general clean-up that we need to do to get the garden in shape... Come when you can! We ask all members to volunteer eight hours during the course of the gardening season. Please remember to record your volunteer hours on the log in the garden.
Neighborhood Food Swap Every Monday The weekly food swap will be held every Monday evening at 7 pm, at the Dundee Community Garden. Residents are invited to bring their surplus garden produce, baked goods, homemade jam, and more to trade with their neighbors. Gardeners, consider swapping your surplus greens, radishes, etc!!! Help Dundee become a "Food Community!"
Grass Clippings: We need lots!! Please bring some if you can!
Sunday June 12 Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m. Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1. We'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot. And our tomato cages were such a success at the Dundee Spring Fling that we're planning to make another batch of them to sell at the ice cream social-- this is your chance if you missed out on Saturday.
Help Mowing: We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.
Watering: Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot. You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container.
Coming in early June: Shed-Raising Party. We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board. If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Permaculture Workshop Thurs. June 2, 5:30-7:30, at Hands to Harvest Community Garden, 1113 S. 31st St. (between Pacific and Poppleton)
Free Permaculture Workshop -- Building an Herb Spiral Everyone will receive hand-outs about the basics of permaculture, easy ideas to incorporate into your garden, and information on herb spirals. Then... we will do some work building an herb spiral for all Hands to Harvest gardeners to enjoy.
What is Permaculture? Permaculture is sustainable land use design. Based on ecological and biological principles and using patterns that occur in nature to maximize effect and minimize work. Permaculture aims to create stable, productive systems that provide for human needs while harmoniously integrating the land with its inhabitants. And what is an Herb Spiral? Come and find out!
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Neighborhood Fruit Registry: If you own fruit trees or berry bushes whose harvest you are willing to share, or if you would like to pick fresh local fruit, register at www.neighborhoodfruit.com. The fruit owner notifies the registry when the fruit is ready to harvest. Volunteers are given a time and place to pick fruit. A share goes to the owner, and the rest is divided amongst the volunteers.
FOOD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: Yardsharing. Neighbors who would like to garden but have no sun, and neighbors who have a sunny yard but do not garden, can pair up through the website, www.sharingbackyards.com. This website offers a secure way to connect landowner and gardener, along with tips on how to set up a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Food Deserts and Public Policy Forum, Wed. June 15, 6-8 p.m. at UNO
What are food deserts? Why do they exist? And more importantly, what can be done about them? According to the US Centers for Disease Control, a food desert is an area that lacks access to affordable and healthy foods that make up a nutritious diet. Many believe that the presence of food deserts may be related to wide-ranging, preventable health problems in both rural and urban America.
On June 15, 2011, Senator Brenda Council will facilitate a panel that will focus on food deserts and their causes. Forum panelists include Rev. Stephanie Alschwede, Fritz Nordengren and Dr. Courtney Pinard, who will explore local and state policy approaches as well as community initiatives to effectively address food deserts.
More information at http://ppc.nebraska.edu/SorensenSemina/FoodDesertsandPublicPolicy&year=2011
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. Next workshop is June 4 on “Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces and in Containers.” See attachment for full schedule.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Dundee Community Garden This Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Gardening Tip of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
Keep track of what, where, and when you plant. A small notebook with your plant information will help you identify those seedlings poking through the ground. The dates you planted will help you when it come to harvesting. Most plants and seeds come with the information on a tag or seed packet. It helps to keep track.
Work Day this Saturday:
Our next work day will be this Sat. May 28, 10-12. Come when you can! We need to finish planting our beds for the food pantry, we've got cannas to plant, and there's weeding and general clean-up that we need to do to get the garden in shape. We ask all members to volunteer eight hours during the course of the gardening season. And remember to record your volunteer hours on the log in the garden.
Grass Clippings:
Thanks to those of you who have brought up grass clippings for the community beds! We'll need more once we get more things planted on Saturday.
Sunday June 12 Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m.
Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1. We'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot. And our tomato cages were such a success at the Dundee Spring Fling that we're planning to make another batch of them to sell at the ice cream social-- this is your chance if you missed out on Saturday.
Help Mowing:
We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.
Watering:
Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot. You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container.
Coming in early June: Shed-Raising Party.
We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board. If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Food Deserts and Public Policy Forum, Wed. June 15, 6-8 p.m. at UNO
What are food deserts? Why do they exist? And more importantly, what can be done about them? According to the US Centers for Disease Control, a food desert is an area that lacks access to affordable and healthy foods that make up a nutritious diet. Many believe that the presence of food deserts may be related to wide-ranging, preventable health problems in both rural and urban America.
On June 15, 2011, Senator Brenda Council will facilitate a panel that will focus on food deserts and their causes. Forum panelists include Rev. Stephanie Alschwede, Fritz Nordengren and Dr. Courtney Pinard, who will explore local and state policy approaches as well as community initiatives to effectively address food deserts.
More information at http://ppc.nebraska.edu/SorensenSeminar/FoodDesertsandPublicPolicy&year=2011
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. Next workshop is June 4 on “Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces and in Containers.” See attachment for full schedule.
Gardening Tip of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
Keep track of what, where, and when you plant. A small notebook with your plant information will help you identify those seedlings poking through the ground. The dates you planted will help you when it come to harvesting. Most plants and seeds come with the information on a tag or seed packet. It helps to keep track.
Work Day this Saturday:
Our next work day will be this Sat. May 28, 10-12. Come when you can! We need to finish planting our beds for the food pantry, we've got cannas to plant, and there's weeding and general clean-up that we need to do to get the garden in shape. We ask all members to volunteer eight hours during the course of the gardening season. And remember to record your volunteer hours on the log in the garden.
Grass Clippings:
Thanks to those of you who have brought up grass clippings for the community beds! We'll need more once we get more things planted on Saturday.
Sunday June 12 Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m.
Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1. We'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot. And our tomato cages were such a success at the Dundee Spring Fling that we're planning to make another batch of them to sell at the ice cream social-- this is your chance if you missed out on Saturday.
Help Mowing:
We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.
Watering:
Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot. You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container.
Coming in early June: Shed-Raising Party.
We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board. If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Food Deserts and Public Policy Forum, Wed. June 15, 6-8 p.m. at UNO
What are food deserts? Why do they exist? And more importantly, what can be done about them? According to the US Centers for Disease Control, a food desert is an area that lacks access to affordable and healthy foods that make up a nutritious diet. Many believe that the presence of food deserts may be related to wide-ranging, preventable health problems in both rural and urban America.
On June 15, 2011, Senator Brenda Council will facilitate a panel that will focus on food deserts and their causes. Forum panelists include Rev. Stephanie Alschwede, Fritz Nordengren and Dr. Courtney Pinard, who will explore local and state policy approaches as well as community initiatives to effectively address food deserts.
More information at http://ppc.nebraska.edu/SorensenSeminar/FoodDesertsandPublicPolicy&year=2011
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. Next workshop is June 4 on “Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces and in Containers.” See attachment for full schedule.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Dundee Community Garden this Week
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Hope you can join us for our workshop (open to all) and work-day this weekend! See below.
Gardening Tips of the Week: (courtesy of Master Gardener Rebecca Reagan)
1. Finish your planting. It is now warm enough to get your tomatoes, peppers and other warm season vegetables into the ground.
2. Mulch. After the seedlings appear, mulch your bed. Mulching will help keep weeds down, cool the soil, and preserve moisture during hot weather. It is easy to do: use chemical-free grass clippings, letting them dry a bit before using, or straw. You could also use newspaper, shredded or several sheets placed around your plants. Make sure you wet the newspaper down after placement so it doesn't blow away. Adding a little dirt or straw over the top of the paper will also help keep it in your plot and not in the neighborhood.
Need Mulch for the Community Beds: Our garden needs grass clippings for mulch! If you have grass clippings that you can donate, please bring them up to the garden. Our newly-planted flowers in the beds along Underwood and 49th Streets are in desperate need of mulch-- and we won't have to water every day if we can get some good mulch down.
Help Mowing: We're still looking for a third volunteer to help us keep up on the mowing.
Watering: Please remember that rain water is the best water to use on your garden plot. You can get rain water out of the blue rain barrels or the "white whale" large water container.
Coming in early June: Shed-Raising Party. We'll get a crew together to build a covered tool rack/sign board. If you are handy with tools and would like to help build the shed, contact Curt Hickman at curt3@cox.net
Sunday June 12 Ice Cream Social, 3-5 p.m. Ice cream sundaes and great toppings for $1. Also we'll be painting stakes to mark your garden plot.
COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Beginning Vegetable Gardening Workshop/Demonstration Series, with UNL Master Gardeners. The Master Gardeners are offering a series of free demonstration classes on beginning vegetable gardening May 7-June 18. Next workshop is May 21 on “What Vegetables Should I Plant and When?” See attachment for full schedule.
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