The Plowshares Garden has been busy!
Read below and visit their webpage to learn more about what's been going on in the Plowshares garden, and get some new ideas for your garden too!
Garden Leadership Training:
The Garden Project http://www.gardensproject.org/ has begun a year long training of garden coordinators, and Plowshares is well represented. Five of us attended the first meeting and were warmly welcomed by representatives from many gardens in the area. Together we will learn leadership, outreach, coordinating work days, honoring volunteers, building community, accessing resources, and increasing food production! The goal is that through our efforts and networking we will help to build a safety net of food security for our community.
Donations:
Julie Price of Solid Waste Systems just sent us 20 yards of rich, black compost made from leaves and green waste from all the homes around Ukiah. It's symbolic of Plowshares being nurtured so richly by the whole community.
Last week North American Organics donated five yards of compost also, beautiful, rich compost! The fig trees from Mendocino College are settling into their new home. The starts from Lovin' Blooms are growing steadily. And Rainbow Ag brings us straw and hay as mulch. The community supports our work!
Kitchen survey:
Our friends at the garden of the City of 1000 Buddhas expressed garden leadership well, with "THE KITCHEN IS BOSS". We have asked our kitchen what we should grow and there seems to be general agreement that salad ingredients are top priority, onions and garlic and cooking herbs are very high priority, and, listed in order by number of votes received are: zucchini, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, green beans, beets, squash, chard, broccoli, cucumbers, kale, bok choy, leeks, and collards.
We're bound to grow!
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