Volunteer Workday at Parkway Tedder Community Garden: Mar 13th 2010

This Saturday promises to be a great morning of hard work and fun with an unusual food drive and lots of great outdoor garden expansion projects!

Time: 9:00 AM to 12Noon, Saturday March 13th 2010
Place: Parkway Tedder Community Garden, Deerfield Beach FL

Food Drive: Fresh Produce Donation for local food pantries
Bring a pound of your favorite produce and share nutritious food with those in need who seek help at the Parkway United Methodist food pantry (open every Saturday morning).  If there is more fresh food than the pantry can handle our partners at Blessings Food Pantry in Pompano Beach (open 5 days a week) will be happy to distribute the rest on Monday morning.  Blessings has already distributed fresh greens from the Parkway-Tedder Garden to those in need thankful for the ‘fresh’ surprise.

Outdoor garden workday projects for March 13th:

1) Plant Green Beans in Food Pantry Plots

2) Divide out and replant baby banana trees to expand the Banana circles

3) Plant new sunflowers in the Sunflower patch
4) Plant sweet potatoes around Banana circles and around Sunflower patch

5) Stake trees that winter winds blew down

6) Weed and mulch garden paths

What to bring:
1 lb (or more) of your favorite fresh produce.
Proper work clothes— see our “workdays” tab on the website for specifics:

Workdays

See you in the Garden!

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Tea in the Garden- Buy your tickets now!

Here’s the official ad:

Here’s the link for Tickets

Tickets

PLEASE NOTE: TICKET PRICES HAVE NOT GONE UP, DUE TO EARLY TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE WEBSITE WE ARE KEEPING THEM THE SAME AS ON OUR OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

See you in the Fruit Forest!

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Potting tables, Banana trees, Planning Meetings

Things keep moving forward at the Garden!  Pastor Jim and his crew were busily sawing two by fours into custom artisan potting tables (check out the pictures). These  outdoor tables will be set up for working with seeds and potting seedlings.  Stop by some time and take part in getting some of your favorite seeds ready for gardening.

With the recent cold snap the banana trees had some dry leaves they were done with (banana leaves are pretty big!) and so Pierre, one of our community gardeners, led our efforts to give them a shave & a haircut.  With swift slices soon the dry stuff was in the middle of the banana circles ready to compost into a fresh round of banana leaves.

In yet another corner of the garden, the planning committee for the “Tea in the Garden” event, February 27th from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, gathered.  (Sorry no pictures on this one–pics a bit boring, bunch of folks sitting around- ha!)  But the event itself will be exciting so– Save the date!

And don’t forget the food pantry garden plots…they just keep growing!

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Leadership Workshop Postponed until March 20th

Dear Friends,

The Leadership Workshop has been postponed to a likely date of Saturday March 20. Between the cold snap which disrupted the garden prep work, and the recent disaster in Haiti which has taken much time and attention from key workshop planners, we felt this change was needed. Thank you for your understanding.

You are welcome to stop by the Garden any Saturday for a glimpse of all that God is doing. Send us a message or make a surprise visit, we will be glad to see you!

The Garden Team

ps–save the date! Tea in the Garden on Feb 27 5:30-7:00pm

Meanwhile, enjoy some pictures of our sunflowers getting ready for tomorrow’s visit by the Tedder Elementary School kids.

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Big Workday July 18th

Mark your calendars, July 18, 2009,  we will be posting more details here soon but that’s the next big day of major tree planting.  8:00 Am to 1:00 PM, get your pickaxes and shovels ready.

Also Two other great Workdays before the big event:

This Saturday, July 11th

Mapping and Marking + Mulching

Next Friday July, 17th

Unloading and placing the trees. More details soon….. STAY TUNED

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Resting, But Not Stopping

Hope you garden folk had a great 4th of July Holiday!  Just a note to say that though we didn’t have a workday Saturday the 4th. The plants have kept on growing and this next Saturday, July 11th, we will get things ready for the planting in Sector 2– the Fruit Forest section– stay tuned!

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Tree Arrival

Today our first order of trees and groundcover arrived! The plants all look absolutely gorgeous. Everyone showed up around 9:00am or so, and the truck arrived soonafter, and we all got to work on unloading!

It didn’t take long to unload everything, and once it was all unloaded and the truck had pulled out, trees and major plants were put where they are going to be planted, some mulch was spread around, and everything was given a nice watering. Everything is all set for the big workday tomorrow!

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Trees on Friday

Our first shipment of trees will arrive at the garden on Friday morning! We’ll have more details posted soon. If you are free that morning and can help us unload them, that would be amazing:-)

We are also going to need lots of volunteers on Saturday to help get all these trees in the ground! The faster we get them planted, the better.

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Bobcat Work Begins!

I swung by the garden to do some weeding in my plot today, and I was very excited to see the bobcat hard at work! Much of the asphalt and rock had already been pushed aside, revealing classic sandy Florida soil underneath.

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Bobcat

We interviewed Fred Crandall of Traction Bobcat, to see if he would be able to aid us in clearing the asphalt in a section of the garden.  Plans discussed and agreed upon. Unfortunately some of the stakes we placed on Saturday will have to be removed. Work starts Wed. 6-10-09.

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