Preserving freshly harvested foods provides an opportunity to enjoy the tasty vegetables you’re growing throughout the year. You can learn all about how to freeze, dry and can your garden-grown vegetables at this free workshop. Register by May 10.
Thursday, May 17
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Columbia/Boone County Health Department, Community Room,
1005 W. Worley St., Columbia
To sign up, use this form or email the instructor, Vera Massey, from University Extension.
This weekend, May 5 & 6, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday and Noon-4 p.m. on Sunday, the CGC will have some warm season plants available for those gardening at our member gardens. Plants will be distributed at the Claudell Garden, 711 Claudell Lane.
We’ll have tomatoes, peppers, a few eggplants starts and sweet potato slips.
We are requesting a donation of 25-50¢ per plant to offset our costs of buying and transporting them. We ask that you give what you can, but you will not be refused for lack of funds. We hope many gardeners can take advantage of this opportunity.
Please note: we can only offer this service to those gardening in our member gardens, not the public at large.
Read about the new MU Children’s Learning Garden in this Missourian article. CGC board member Chris Murakami has been working on starting community gardens on the MU campus and this will be the first one to break ground.
This weekend, March 24 & 25, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday and 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, the CGC will have some cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage plants available for those gardening at our member gardens. Plants will be distributed at the Claudell Garden, 711 Claudell Lane.
We are requesting a donation of at least 25-50¢ per plant to offset our costs of buying and transporting them. We ask that you give what you can, but you will not be refused for lack of funds. These are good quality plants and the weather is fantastic right now for growing brassicas, so we hope many gardeners can take advantage of this opportunity.
Please note: we can only offer this service to those gardening in our member gardens, not the public at large.
South side Columbians take note, Bethel Church garden (on Old Plank Road), would welcome new gardeners to participate. They don’t have individual plots but anyone is welcome to come and help with the garden in exchange for produce when it is available.
If you’re interested, contact Linda by email and put “garden” in the subject line. If you live nearby and are a beginner, this would be a good way to learn about gardening without the full responsibility of having your own garden.
At last weekend’s Spring Thaw event I chatted with lots of new community gardeners there to meet their garden leaders and pick out some free seed packets.
Here’s a little peek at a few of the faces of community gardening in CoMo.
Leanna & Ryan Dabler have gardened before, but only in the lovely weather of California, so Missouri gardening could pose new challenges. They have herbs ready to transplant into their garden plot at Circus-Lyons and they’re also looking forward to growing beans, tomatoes, marigolds, cucumbers and a small variety of pumpkin, which Ryan is excited to cook into a delicious soup. Continue reading
Two gardens with great central locations are not yet full and are having their first meetings this weekend, which makes it a great time to get started at Circus-Lyons garden (workdays this weekend and next) or at the Claudell garden (workday Sunday, 1-3 p.m.).
Both the garden at the Health Department and the Ash St. garden also have some plots still available.
In the north central part of Columbia, Benton-Stephens, Ninth St. and St. Joseph gardens are all full. A waiting list is established at Benton and will soon be started at the other two.
The leaders of St. Joseph garden are looking for some small groups of gardeners to work a new garden nearby on St. James Street. Contact Adam to talk about this opportunity.
Columbia’s community gardens are getting organized for the season.
If you have any updates about your garden, please send them to jenny@comogardens.org for sharing.
Saturday, March 10, 2-4 pm
ARC (Activities & Recreation Center), 1701 W. Ash Street
The Spring Thaw is our annual community gardening kick-off event. If you’re thinking of gardening this year, are interested in starting a community garden, or are already active in a community garden, don’t miss this annual organizing meeting.
You can sign up or confirm a plot to grow your own vegetables and flowers and meet garden leaders and fellow gardeners. You can also learn about how to start a community garden. Newcomers are welcome.
Community Garden Coalition 