Hello All,
The NECKO Community Garden is part of the University Area Garden Collective - a group of 4-7 (we keep losing count!) community gardens in the University Area. This is great because it allows us to share resources.
One of the gardens, the Summit Garden, located at the Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, is holding a seed planting party THIS Saturday, March 5th from 10:30am-about 2pm. The address is 82 E 16th Avenue, and we are meeting upstairs to plant seeds in a beautifully lit room that the Summit church is donating for our use! Later in the spring, the Summit Garden will be erecting a greenhouse on the front lawn of the church so we can transfer our seedlings outdoors to continue growing strong.
If you'd like to help and/or donate materials, please let me know. We can always use seeds, soil (seed starting soil), and containers for starting seeds.
I've saved up a bunch of cardboard egg cartons, yogurt containers, popsicle sticks, and other useful things.
If you use these types of items, start saving them - I'll even store them for you in our handy-dandy shed (thank you William and Missy!) as long as they are clean! If we don't use them this year, we'll need them for next year!
The seeds we are planting this Saturday will become starter plants for the University Area Garden Collective gardens and leftover plants will be sold at the first Urban Farmer's Market on May 7th (more details to come). If you have special seeds that you'd like to keep for yourself, for your own plot, then it is probably best to keep those out of the planting party this Saturday. If you still need a place to get those started, let me know and we'll figure out something. Anything contributed Saturday will be considered a donation to the Collective as a whole.
Please feel free to come and help plant seeds this Saturday. It is likely that will have another seed planting day, but this is a great way to get garden fever and meet the other members of the University Area gardening community!
There are more exciting things happening! Stay tuned for another email from me about them in the next day or so...
Thanks,
April
