Don’t forget to register for this Thursday’s Walk and Talk workshop on garden pests at Circus Lyons garden.
In addition, there are two composting workshops coming up this week:
Don’t forget to RSVP for the Community Garden Coalition birthday celebration and garden tour this Saturday! We’d like to know who’s coming by Wednesday, June 12. It’s especially designed for biking, but we welcome drivers, too, and you’ll enjoy a tasty lunch from Comedor Popular at the end. Happy 30th, CGC!
The next Community Garden Twilight Walk and Talk is coming up on June 20, 6:30 p.m. at the Circus-Lyons Community Garden. At this session you’ll discuss pests in the garden with MU Extension specialist James Quinn. Sign up today for this free event by emailing the MU Extension Center at Booneco@missouri.edu.
Co-sponsored by MU Extension and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture. Find out more here.
The Community Garden Coalition is turning 30!
To celebrate this important anniversary, please join us on Saturday, June 15, for a garden cruise and birthday party. The cruise will showcase several community gardens in central Columbia and lunch will be provided! Fun and educational events are planned throughout the tour. Continue reading
Thanks to the Columbia/Boone County Health Department and Columbia’s City Channel for producing this great video about the Unite 4 Health Community Garden at the Health Department.
In addition to Wednesday’s free class on making rain barrels, don’t miss this upcoming opportunity to learn about vegetable plant growth and pest issues.
Community Garden Twilight “Walk & Talk”
Thursday, May 16, 2013
6:30-7:30 p.m.
719 W. Broadway, NE corner of Broadway & Anderson, home of presenter James Quinn
To register, email your name and how many will be with you to the Boone County Extension Center at Booneco@missouri.edu.
Join other community gardeners and members of the Center for Urban Agriculture for a casual conversation with James Quinn, MU’s Regional Horticulture Specialist about raised beds, fertility, intensive gardening, warm season vegetable planting, and more.
You can use a rain barrel to capture rainwater from the roof of your house or shed. It’s an affordable energy efficiency project that anyone can accomplish. Your garden will benefit and so will your water bill once the rain has stopped. Learn how to build your own and where to get materials locally at a free library program.
CGC member gardeners, come get some transplants of cool season plants like cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli. Distribution will occur at the Claudell Garden Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sunday, April 7, 12-4 p.m. No one will be denied plants for lack of contributing, but a donation of 50¢ per plant is requested to help cover CGC costs.
A variety of seeds, and row cover fabric (for protecting plants from insects like cabbage worm) will also be available. Row cover fabric is being sold for 25¢ per linear foot.
While we’re all waiting for spring to finally arrive for real, it seems like a good time to remind all community gardeners to fill out the annual Gardener Household Information Form. We ask all individual gardeners to fill this out (1 per household) each year you garden in a member garden. Your answers will be kept private, but the data we collect helps us get our funding from year to year.
