UPCOMING EVENTS
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PAST EVENTS
Wednesday, September 10 - 5PM : harvesting overload!!! tomatoes are too ripe! beans are everywhere! we’ll be building a few compost tumblers to start breaking down some of that green food waste from the cafeteria, then…if there’s time, help us put up our coldframe greenhouse! the folks at the KC Irving Centre have generously given us the materials we need to put a coldframe down at the field so we can grow into the cooler months. we’ve got the frame, we’ve got some tools, we need some hands and some know-how.
Sunday, September 14 - 2PM : (rescheduled from Sept. 7, thanks for nothing Hannah.) we’ll be putting the finishing touches on our cob bench with a layer of plaster. This is your last chance (for the immediate future) to check out cob construction in action - it’s a nearly completely free and thoroughly sustainable building method and the bench is looking mighty fine.
Wednesday, September 17 - 5PM : more coldframe excitement!! we have loads of spinach and lettuce transplants and they need a cozy home.
August 27 - 5PM - Tomato Symposium and Open House
Pick from your choice of repetitive flyers for details! Bring some food and the burning questions you’ve never been able to answer about tomatoes.
June 2nd - 11 AM - LAND PREPARATION HO! Starting at 11, we’ll be clearing the sod off the new site (with nifty machinery this time, save your shovels for the next day), we’ll be spreading delicious composted manure, and we’ll be a-tilling it all in the ground, hopefully with some nice soggy leaves to help break the dykeland clay up a bit. Come down early, come down late, come down whenever, we’ll be there through the evening to make this garden ready for growing. Your hands and minds are more than welcome to join us.
June 7th @ Noon - And finally, it’s gardening time. A mere 7 months after the plans began to unfold, we arrive at a time and (more importantly) a PLACE where we can start some digging and let the earth do its thing. More details as we get our act together, but we’re going to be on the big dykeland site no later than June 7th. Oh yeah, this will be a big one - clear the calendars.
May 16th - We cordially invite you to help us BREAK SOME GROUND. This Friday, May 16th, we’ll be tearing up some sod and preparing a (very) small garden bed next to the cafeteria. This garden will soon be full with delicious sage and rosemary and basil and thyme and several kinds of crazy lettuces like red rage and oak leaf, but before the planting comes the digging. So!
Come out May 16th at 10 AM, right behind Wheelock Hall (on your right going up Highland Ave.) and bring your own shovel! We’ll have a couple of extra tools, but maybe not quite enough to go around.
As always, if you’re interested in helping out in the greenhouse, drop us an email or a phone call and we’ll figure out a time that is convenient.
