UPDATE: Memorial Service for Rick at Parkway United Methodist Church (site of the garden as well) on Tuesday, April 13th at 7PM Rick Don Coffey was killed in an accident on Friday April 2, 2010 while riding his bike at Sample and Military Trail. Rick has been a part of our garden project from the …
Old fashioned Black Hen organic fertilizer (otherwise known as dried chicken poo)– Good for fruit trees now that warm weather is sort of here.– Old time farmers would probably scratch their heads and say, “You had to buy this stuff?”
On a gorgeous Tuesday morning almost 100 2nd graders ambled the few blocks from their school to the garden to follow up on last year’s visit and learn new things as well. This visit included Sunflower circle revisit with new seed planting and explanation about what the cold winter did to the sunflower plants. Ladybugs! …
Check out what’s starting to grow like crazy in the food pantry plots, green beans! Tasty local organic green beans for hungry folks who visit the Saturday food pantry. As a point of comparison check out similar items at a local grocer: local, but not organic and priced beyond what many can afford. Also, don’t …
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Thank you marvelous volunteers! What a great day of projects and sunshine at the garden! Remember the work list? Everything got accomplished: 1) The new Food Pantry plot was dug and de-rocked (2 bins of rocks!) 2) Banana circles got remulched and re-sweet potatoe ized (yes not a real verb but you get the idea) …
If Saturday is sunny please plan on joining us by working on some great garden projects. Certainly the plants are well watered!
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 …
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When last we wrote, the rain had poured, stopped, and a rainbow had come out! At 5:30pm the sun showed up and so did Tea in the Garden guests. Hesitantly at first, wondering if they would find anything going on in the Garden…folks beamed when they saw the tiki torches and smiles grew wider seeing …
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Things looked a little iffy at 3:30 pm on Saturday the 27th, the afternoon of the big event. The wind picked up and weather radar showed bands moving through the whole region–then the rains really began! For a little while it looked like the party would be indoors with perhaps a few peeks outside under …
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