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| Students from the Ukiah Junior Academy volunteering at the Vinewood Park Community Garden in March |
We are digging into our 9th year of community garden work with fresh new ideas on the horizon as well as old events coming back to life... all to grow food and community in our beautiful Northern California land!
Wanna learn about all we're doing and get involved? Here's a look at what's growin' on, click on the links to dig deeper into each topic.
New Garden Projects in Mendocino and Lake Counties
We are working with communities from Leggett to Lucerne this year to help build new garden projects for different communities, agencies, and apartments. The first few groups we'll be working with this year include:- Arbor Youth Resource Center of Redwood Community Services in Ukiah - New Garden
- Community Transition Program Garden at Observatory Park in Ukiah - New Garden Fence, additional raised beds
- FLOW Community Garden in Lucerne - New Garden Fence
- North Shore Senior Apartments of RCHDC in Lucerne- 3 new 4x20ft
Raised Beds and Irrigation! - Village Circle Community Garden in Ukiah (new in 2014) - Large Hoop-house for season extension.
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| North Shore in Lucerne will have new raised beds for easier gardening! |
More about projects in Leggett, Boonville, and Hopland coming soon!
Garden Leadership Training in Ukiah
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| Garden Leaders from the Arbor, Jack Simpson & Village Circle |
Participating are leaders from the Arbor Youth Resource Center, Vinewood Park, Village Circle, State St, Washington Ave, Thunderbird and Jack Simpson Gardens.
The Gardeners' Gathering
A NEW EVENT FOR THE GP- the Gardeners Gathering will bring together community and home gardeners from Lake and Mendocino Counties together to learn and share gardening skills, with a special presentation on the Drought and how it impacts our gardens, mini-workshops, free seeds, plant starts, resources and more!
FREE and ALL are welcome to attend, click here for more details.
Supporters of the Gardens Project
The next Community Wine Sale starts now! Place your orders by Friday, April 10th to pick up your wine at Fetzer on Saturday, April 18th. Click here for ordering information.
Want to make a donation to the Gardens Project?
You can donate online at anytime, just click here!
We also sell our Gardens Project T-shirts for a $20 donation (for pick up in Ukiah). Contact GP Coordinator, Stephanie, at 462-1958 or slogsdon@ncoinc.org to get one!
The Homegrown Garden Tour- coming back to life!
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| Genaro in the Cleveland Lane Garden showing off his Nopales in 2012! |
Have you been to the Homegrown Garden Tour in Ukiah? It's been a few years since the GP has hosted the tour for the community to visit the gardens, but this year it's coming back this August! Keep a check on our events page for tour information.
Gardens Project VIDEOS
Did you know that the GP had a video intern last summer? Kenny Logsdon, Anthropology student at Appalachian State University, spent last summer interviewing our community gardeners and documenting workshops.Take a look at this video about our drip irrigation workshop last summer- and then get inspired to set yours up to for water conservation!
Thank you for your continued support of community and school gardens in Mendocino and Lake Counties!
