As always, bring gloves, scissors, and other gardening tools to help with harvesting and weeding. So far this summer, we've donated over 200 pounds of vegetables to Together, Inc.'s food pantry!
HARVEST NIGHT MONDAYS AT 7:
Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,
EXTRA PRODUCE ALWAYS ACCEPTED FOR THE FOOD PANTRY! Let us know if we can pick from your plot if you're not coming to the harvest night! And if you have produce that is neglected and very ripe, we'll go ahead and add it to our food pantry box!
VOLUNTEER HOURS: Remember to sign in your volunteer hours in the notebook when you help at a harvest night! Each garden member is expected to contribute eight hours working in the community plots over the course of the gardening season.
DUNDEE DAY PARADE:We'll be marching in the Dundee Day Parade on Sat. Aug. 28-- carrying a large carrot, of course! All members and friends invited to join us in the parade! Parade guidelines: please wear a Dundee Community Garden t-shirt or a costume (as a vegetable, a farmer/gardener, etc.) to walk in the parade.
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Other gardening news:
SUSTAINABLE FARM TOUR THURS. AUG. 26, 7 pm : Join Sierra Club members and friends for a tour of a small sustainable organic farm. Rhizosphere Farm in Waterloo is a "certified naturally grown" farm, owned by Terra Sorenson and Matt Hall. The tour will show us the greenhouse where the seedlings are started, the out-building, used for washing crops and prepartion for market, and of course the fields wehre the owners practive intensive growing of heirloom crops. The tour will be preceded by an optional pot-luck at 6 p.m. More information at http://sierranebraska.org/
INTERESTING WEBSITES: This information on how to harvest and store tomato seeds comes from garden member Adam Krtek and may be of interest to gardeners:
Question - is there a new garden going up on Farnam and 49th? It looks like there might be a reclamation project going on there. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteThere are people starting to work on amending the soil so it will be suitable for a community garden. Send an email to the DCG email address and I can get you the contact information for the people who are working on the project.
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