The weather is cooperating so far. It could start raining between now and then, but if it doesn’t we have a few things that need doing in the garden.
Laura, William, and Patrick got a good start on building compost bins from the pallets that Hudson’s gave us. The lettuce and the carrots need to be thinned and new seeds should be planted in the bare spots. There is a ton of weeding that we can start on, as well (see Maggie if you not sure what’s lettuce and what’s a weed!).
See you in the garden!
Hello, all
I waited to send this workday announcement out because I wanted to see what the weather might do. They are still predicting some chance of rain tonight and in the morning. At this point, since it is not raining now, the workday is still on. I will see what conditions are like when I wake in the morning and send out another email.
Regardless of weather, there is a community information meeting at Southeast Regional Library at 2pm. It would be nice to have current members there for support but if you can’t make it or if you saw the presentation at the last meeting and don’t feel the need to see it again, you are forgiven and absolved.
See you in the garden (maybe)!
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We planted tomatoes, which were donated by Hudson’s Hardware. Hudson’s also gave us shipping pallets and we were able to begin putting together the compost bins.
We appreciate the people that came out yesterday, new members and old. At one point there were 16 people at the garden. We’ll have to come up with more work for all these people to do on workdays.
We will have a Saturday workday from 10-2, although it may be more like 1:30 so that we can get to the library for the community meeting. We’ll be at Southeast Regional Library from 2pm-3:30 pm. The meeting will focus on how the organization works and on our future plans.
Hope to see you in the garden or at the library soon!
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I’m late posting this, but we do have a workday on Tuesday from 5pm until we finish our short list. We would like to get the compost bins built and we need to water the seedlings. Saturday’s workday is cancelled due to all of the Earth Day activities going on that day.
See you in the garden!
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Earth Day is April 22 and every organization in town has planned their garden events around it. The Saturday before Earth Day is a busy one for the still relatively small membership of Garner Grows.
We will have a booth at White Deer Park for Garner’s “Get Your Green On” event and need at least two people to help man that booth. Grow and Share is having a plant giveaway starting on the 17 and they will give 12-20 plants to community gardeners who come by and pick them up.
Advocates for Health In Action is hosting the first ever event in Raleigh on community gardening at Marbles Museum. Let Maggie know if you want to join her at the ‘Dig In’ at Marbles from 9am-12:30. We will also be hosting a tour of ‘Dig In’ attendees at Garner Grows Community Farm Garden immediately after the event.
Since that is such a busy day, we are planning on cancelling or rescheduling that Saturday Workday.
The following Saturday, April 24th is our community meeting at SE Regional Library from 2pm – 3:30 or so. We hope to put a sign-up sheet at the library this week to increase visibility.
