Help your local community gardens raise a little money for water, straw, seeds, tools and all those other gardening essentials. The folks at Chipotle on Ninth St. are helping us out with a fundraiser night Friday, August 23. Just take a copy of the flyer linked below in with you to the restaurant (or show it on your phone, tablet, mini-computing device, etc.) from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and the CGC will get 50% (!) of the proceeds from your purchase.
Don’t forget to tell two or 18 friends! Thanks!
Join Refugee and Immigration Services – CCCNMO and the Adult Learning Center for a celebration of World Refugee Day at Broadway Christian Church, home of a vibrant community garden.
July 20, 2013 at 5 p.m.at Broadway Christian Church
Learn about other cultures, enjoy games, delicious food and take a peek at the garden while you’re there. This is a great event for families.
Learn how to improve the compost at your community garden or start composting at your home. The City of Columbia is offering another composting workshop Saturday, July 13 at Capen Park.
If you’d like to learn about growing fruit at your home or community garden, don’t miss the next event in the free Urban Orchard series. The Mid-Summer Fruit Review is happening Wednesday, June 26 at 4 p.m, led and hosted by Jim Quinn from University Extension. A walk around Jim’s garden (at the corner of Broadway and Anderson) will feature fruit development or success with crop, disease symptoms and insect damage, control (or lack of) of diseases, etc. Berries from Jim’s garden will be featured in Jello, with some interesting flavor and berry combinations.
The event is free; just email Booneco@missouri.edu with how many people plan to attend.
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.
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