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.
Our annual Spring Thaw organizing event is happening Saturday, February 23, 2-4 p.m., at the ARC (1701 W. Ash).
Drop in to find out about community gardens near you and sign up for a plot to grow your own food this summer. For new or returning gardeners, we will have seeds available for a small donation. Most of our public community gardens will have representatives there to tell you about their gardens or help you confirm a plot to grow in this year.
Growing Peppers, From Seed to Salsa
Monday, February 18 › 1-2:30 p.m.
Columbia Public Library, Friends Room
Get the details here.
Gardener Steve Donofrio is an expert at growing all the best ingredients to make some of the best salsa you’ll ever taste. If you’re planning to grow peppers, either sweet or hot, this year, don’t miss his free class at the public library. He’ll cover everything from starting seeds to harvesting. Warm-weather plants like peppers should be started from seed indoors in late winter in our area, so this class is very well-timed.
Learn how to prune young fruit trees and shrubs and this low-cost workshop offered by the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture as part of their Urban Orchards program.
Saturday, February 16, 2-4 p.m.
at Kilgore’s Giving Garden, 700 N. Providence Rd.
Local extension expert James Quinn will demonstrate pruning strategies for apples, pears, peaches, raspberries, and blackberries. All participants of the Urban Orchards program (those who received trees or bushes in last two years) will receive a fee waiver. All other people are invited to attend and asked to contribute $5 to cover printing costs for publications and other workshop costs. Register here.
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