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.

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!)

 http://bcartsales.org/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=2054&NewID=5411&CC=AUCTION

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-best

Full 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