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
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.
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.
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.
