Hello Dundee Community Garden Members and Friends,
Urban Farming – A Panel Presentation
Sponsored by the Green Neighborhood Council
Thursday, May 10th from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
All GNC workshops are free and open to the public.
As everyone involved in the local urban farming movement knows, the number of backyard and community gardens in the Omaha area continues to increase each year. People of all ages are finding they can grow food for themselves, either learning on their own or from the many teachers and mentors who don't just tell but show them how to garden, digging in the dirt along with them. Four of those teachers will discuss their work and suggest ways audience members can get involved. Please plan to join us for this informal roundtable presentation and discussion.
Ali Clark works with the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society as the organization's Urban Agriculture Specialist. With other community gardening enthusiasts, she recently helped launch a new Community Supported Agriculture farm, the Big Muddy Urban Farm:www.bigmuddyfarm.blogspot.com/
Chris Foster is the Director of Gifford Park's Youth Garden Program. He'll present a short power point slideshow, highlighting the variety of available activities in Gifford Park's Youth Garden Program and Community Garden:
www.giffordparkomaha.org/Community_Garden.html
Dana Freeman has been the School Garden Coordinator with Douglas County Health Department for the CPPW grant and was the Gifford Park Youth Garden Director for 5 years. By May 10th, she will no longer be with the Douglas County Health Department, but she remains a school and community garden advocate and has recently started her own small business called Growing Gardeners, Inc.
Dan Susman travelled across the country last summer with his friend, Andrew Monbouquette to film a documentary about urban farming, called Growing Cities: http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/. His latest endeavor, the Truck Farm is an edible education project that will provide farm experiences to Omaha area youth.
A free book on gardening or another green topic will be given to each attendee, or while quantities last.
Work Party this Saturday April 28, 9-12. Come when you can to help plant the bedding plants in the flower beds, and we'll plant more vegetables in the community plots. BRING PERENNIALS to donate if you have them. Also we could use a couple more rhubarb plants.
Volunteer Hours: as a reminder, members are asked to volunteer 8 hours over the season towards work in the community beds. We'll have a drawing for a Dundee merchant's gift certificate for all volunteers at our work days! If you can't come during scheduled work times, there's a list of chores on the dry erase board that you can work on any time you're up at the garden.
Members: Please turn over your plots if you haven't planted yet-- just to keep the weeds down!
Workshop Ideas: Have ideas for workshops? Send them to the info@dundeegarden.org account! Or if you know of people who could lead workshops, let us know! (Anyone know someone who can teach a "raw foods" workshop?)
Next DCG Board Meeting: Thurs. May 3, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian Church, dining room. All members welcome!
*************COMMUNITY EVENTS:***********************************************************
Yates Garden Build Tonight April 24, 6-8 p.m.
We are having a garden work party at Yates Community Center (3260 Davenport St.) community garden on this Tuesday April 24th from 6:00-8:00 PM. Last November and December volunteers constructed 18 raised garden beds and partially filled with dirt, now we can use a little help weeding and preparing the beds for planting (by families attending Yates and involved in their programs).
We will provide shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, yard tools, and yard waste bags (you can certainly bring your own yard tools if you like). A load of dirt has been dropped off for us to fill the raised beds.
Please stop by if are able to help-- hope to see you there!
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Men's Garden Club Plant Sale
Fri. May 4, 5:30-8 p.m.
Sat May 5, 9-2
Extension Bldg. 8015 W. Center Road
This is a great opportunity to get all kinds of heirloom tomatoes and other vegetables and flowers! Go early for best selection.
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Urban Farming – A Panel Presentation
Sponsored by the Green Neighborhood Council
Thursday, May 10th from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Neighborhood Center, 115 S 49th Avenue
All GNC workshops are free and open to the public.
As everyone involved in the local urban farming movement knows, the number of backyard and community gardens in the Omaha area continues to increase each year. People of all ages are finding they can grow food for themselves, either learning on their own or from the many teachers and mentors who don't just tell but show them how to garden, digging in the dirt along with them. Four of those teachers will discuss their work and suggest ways audience members can get involved. Please plan to join us for this informal roundtable presentation and discussion.
Ali Clark works with the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society as the organization's Urban Agriculture Specialist. With other community gardening enthusiasts, she recently helped launch a new Community Supported Agriculture farm, the Big Muddy Urban Farm:www.bigmuddyfarm.blogspot.com/
Chris Foster is the Director of Gifford Park's Youth Garden Program. He'll present a short power point slideshow, highlighting the variety of available activities in Gifford Park's Youth Garden Program and Community Garden:
www.giffordparkomaha.org/Community_Garden.html
Dana Freeman has been the School Garden Coordinator with Douglas County Health Department for the CPPW grant and was the Gifford Park Youth Garden Director for 5 years. By May 10th, she will no longer be with the Douglas County Health Department, but she remains a school and community garden advocate and has recently started her own small business called Growing Gardeners, Inc.
Dan Susman travelled across the country last summer with his friend, Andrew Monbouquette to film a documentary about urban farming, called Growing Cities: http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/. His latest endeavor, the Truck Farm is an edible education project that will provide farm experiences to Omaha area youth.
A free book on gardening or another green topic will be given to each attendee, or while quantities last.
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