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We’ll be bringing the chickens out tomorrow morning at 9:30 if you have a few minutes to come see. Pictures will be on the website by the afternoon.
With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there, here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck, cluck, Garner Grows will have a farm…
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Kristen and the rest of the gang had a wonderful workday on Saturday, while I got rained on at a kids’ soccer tournament. The chicken pen is about half way done. Two more posts, some chicken wire over it all, and voila! I promise I will post the date and time when we bring the chickens out, so anyone with a few minutes available can watch the body language of our teenage chickens as they check out their new digs.
Not being there Saturday has made me realize how essential my time in the garden is. Walking out of the garden at the end of a workday, with my muscles tired and my mind quiet (my mind is usually never quiet!) except for a pleasant sense of accomplishment, it gives me another reason to add to the list of why we should garden as a community. I hope that I am not the only one who feels that.
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I’m really looking forward to Saturday’s workday. The garden looks so different with the shed, like it really belongs there and will remain there for a long time.
I made a list of tasks we need to tackle:
- Plant squash
- Thin and weed carrots
- Plant carrots in bare spots on carrot row
- Attach chicken wire to compost bins
- Check potatoes for potato beetles (then squash them bugs!)
- Water newest seedlings
- Spray compost tea on as many plants as possible
- Rake grass clumps from paths in new garden
- Spread hay on paths after clearing grass clumps
Let’s go have some fun!
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More rain last night would have been better for our thirsty garden, but at least we won’t be sinking up to our ankles this afternoon (I hope I won’t be eating those words).
If you missed the last couple of workdays, you’ve missed a lot at the garden. The bee hive has arrived, a new portion of the land has been tilled, and a donated shed was built on site. Come see these new items!
Beans, squash, pumpkin, and various other seeds need to be planted in the new portion of the garden. Carrots need to be thinned and weeded. If I remember a paint brush, the trim on the shed can be painted.
Hope you can make it!
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We more than doubled the planting space in the garden today. Seedlings of many different varieties have been waiting for that space. Saturday’s workday (10am-2pm) should be a busy one. If you have any connections to a pickup powerful enough to do a compost run, we sure could use one!
We owe Sun Butler and Interfaith Food Shuttle a big thank you for having the new area plowed for us. Perhaps we could have one of our workdays at the Interfaith Food Shuttle Farm on Tryon Road – but not until we get our seedlings planted.
We’ll have a huddle when we get to the garden in the morning and see if we can come up with a game plan. Grab a friend or a child and come on out to get your hands dirty.
See you in the garden!
