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!  

Dundee Community Garden This Week/ Roofing the Tool Rack

Hello DCG Members and Friends,

MONDAY NIGHT 

HARVEST NIGHT:

ROOF BUILDING AND 

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.  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!   

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.