Tag: organic gardening
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Garden collard harvest – Wed., Dec. 31st at 10am!
Happy winter days to you all! This coming Wednesday, December 31st we will gather at the garden at 10am to harvest collards and other overwintering crops for ourselves and the food bank. Collards are part of many southerners’ New Year’s traditional meal, symbolizing good fortune in the coming year. It…
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Garden cancelled today!
The garden workday is cancelled today, due to cold rain this evening. We hope to see you Saturday morning beginning at 9am, as we catch up on our harvest and garden tasks. There will be no more Tuesday night workdays this year since daylight savings ends this weekend, but Saturday…
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Strawberry plant giveaway!
Tomorrow we will be transplanting young strawberry plants to new beds. We have way more plants than we have room so if you’d like to take some home to plant, please come help us at the garden tomorrow 8am-noon. There will be instructions available so never fear! Hope to see…
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Tomorrow – strawberry plant giveaway and the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Hope you can join us at the garden tomorrow for a fun day of planting and counting! The weather looks to be spectacular too! We’ll be pulling out some of our strawberry plants which you are welcome to take home! We have way more plants than we will need to…
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Garlic week!!
Tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday we will have all of our lovely dried garlic back at the garden! We will set aside some of it to plant this November (for harvest next summer). The rest will be available to you and our local food banks. Because we hung this garlic to…
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Workday hours change this week due to heat
It’s going to be a real scorcher of a week this week with highs in the upper 90’s in some cases not even counting the heat index. As such we’re modifying garden workday hours to: Saturday hours (tomorrow) will be 7:30am until 11am or whenever harvesting and watering are done.Tuesday…
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Volunteers needed to deliver Thursday produce to new food bank!
Thursday workdays begin this coming week (9:30-11:30am) and we will be donating our produce to a new food bank. Our former food bank has sadly closed, but the volunteers at the White Oak Foundation are very excited that we will be donating to their food bank. We need 4 volunteers…
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Saturday time change
This coming Saturday, May 3rd, garden workday hours will begin at 8am! We normally work earlier in the summer when the temperatures get hotter. If we get everything done, it’s possible that garden hours may end a bit early, so come on out while it’s still cool and we can…
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Calling all busy beavers! Let’s have some planting fun Saturday.
Saturday April 19th Garden Workday – 9 AM-Noon Come one, come all! Strap on those garden boots and gloves and let’s get this garden ready for summer! This Saturday, we will be preparing beds and planting at least seven new rows of young plants kindly started for us by both…
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Planting brassicas and meeting new friends!
Tomorrow morning from 9am to noon we’ll be planting kale, cabbage and broccoli seedlings that Larry started weeks ago as well as other cold weather crops from seed. We will continue rescuing our strawberries from the weeds that have tried to overtake them during the winter. And we’ll be preparing…
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