Everyone is invited to see the gardens, enjoy the entertainment, refreshments and fun activities! Saturday, October 10 from 9AM-1PM See the new Food Forest and discover why it’s there. Find out what “permaculture” really is. Learn about community gardening and get gardening tips. Want a garden plot for yourself? Now is the time! Plant some …
“We are doing this project in big part for people we have not met, or may never personally meet, in fact some of these people may not even be born yet– these trees are an investment in a bigger future. It’s exciting to be a part of this.” As a couple of us rested in …
Join us on Saturday, August 22nd, to plant more trees in our urban food forest at Parkway-Tedder Community Garden! What: Help us wrap up the Broward Beautiful grant phase of our project When: Saturday, August 22nd, from 8:00am to 1:00pm Location: 100 NE 44 St, Pompano Beach at Parkway United Methodist Who: You and anyone …
A little over a week after planting, here’s a little visual check in! After all the labors of planting, mulching, and the continuing efforts of watering the fruit trees they seem to be enjoying their job of turning dry, rocky ground into a green fragrant mini forest. Here are some pics. Let us know if …
Saturday, July 18th, was a big success. All the little citrus, mango, banana, tamarind, fig, allspice, sapote etc…. etc… got planted and were standing tall and comfortably surrounded by mulch by 12:30 pm on Saturday! Sure it was hot, dripping tropical hot, but the coolness of the trees seem to give promise of shade, and …
Our fruit trees have arrived! Here are some photos of the gorgeous citrus trees that arrived early this morning. If you want to see the mango, banana and other fruit trees, you’ll just have to come to the garden tomorrow for the big planting! This is definitely the week to come! If you’ve been waiting …
Join us on Saturday, July 18th, to plant fruit trees and an urban food forest at Parkway-Tedder Community Garden! When: Saturday, July 18th from 8:00am to 1:00pm Location: 100 NE 44 St, Pompano Beach at Parkway United Methodist What: Plant 50 citrus trees and 90 assorted mangoes, bananas and other fruit trees. Who: You and …
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 …
On Wednesday, July 8th, a local youth group will be digging Banana circles! Yes, you heard that right, Banana circles. These are a creative permaculture way of planting tropical banana trees mixed in with sweet potato vines. The end result are plants that like each other and produce lots tasty fruit and vegetables. By the …
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!
