Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
Our official gardening season starts this Saturday! Please plan to join us if you can!
SATURDAY MARCH 31
9:30 a.m. NEW MEMBER REGISTRATION AND ORIENTATION at A.V. Sorenson Center, 48th & Cass. All new members, please plan on attending!
10 a.m. INTRODUCTION TO GARDENING WORKSHOP at A.V. Sorenson: How to Grow Your Soil; and What to Grow and When. Garden members Lori Huebert and Tancy Ellis will give an overview for new and experienced gardeners. This one-hour workshop is FREE and open to the public. Special bonus: our sponsors The Bread Oven and Blue Line Coffee are providing treats and coffee for our workshops! Thank you to our sponsors! Please bring your own re-usable mug!
11 a.m. Spring Clean-Up and Groundbreaking: bring work gloves and tools such as shovels. We'll have a big load of Oma-grow at the garden, ready for you to dig into your plots. It's time to plant cool-season greens, so bring seeds if you have them-- and there will probably be some seeds available for sharing. Also, we want to dig out our "food pantry" plots and get them ready for planting, and we'll be planting spring greens in some of those plots.
BONUS: We've been receiving gift cards from neighborhood businesses to use as incentives for our members, so make sure to enter your name in the drawings-- we'll have one at our workshop and another one at our Spring Clean-Up! This is a great way to support our neighborhood businesses!
(NOTE: We could use more shovels at the garden, if anyone has extras they could donate!)
NEXT BOARD MEETING (Open to all Members): Thurs. April 5, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian Church.
A BIG THANK YOU to the UNO STUDENTS who helped out for UNO's Day of Service last Saturday March 24. The students sanded and stained the picnic tables, stained the bulletin board, weeded out the east-side flower beds, and built raised beds for our food pantry plots! Thanks for all their hard work. (Note: the students ran out of time before they had a chance to drop off OmaGrow to those plots who had made requests-- sorry about that!)
WORKSHOP SUGGESTIONS: If you have ideas/suggestions for future workshops, please send them via e-mail to info@dundeegarden.org
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COMMUNITY EVENT:
Food Safety Begins in the Garden: Free Training for Community Gardeners from UNL Douglas/Sarpy Extension. Mon. April 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Registration closes March 30. Call to register at 402-444-7804.
This is a program designed to provide education to individuals involved in community gardening projects to reduce the risks of bacterial contamination of their produce. This means keeping bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause human illness off of produce. Produce is grown in soil, and exposed to a variety of organisms, including animals, insects, microbes, and people. Any of these can introduce contamination. Controlling every source of contamination is impossible, but there are many things that can be done to reduce them to safe levels. Food safety can also help with the nutrient content of produce. No registrations will be taken at the door.
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