The Community Garden Cruise is on for tomorrow morning. Meet at 9 a.m. at Circus Lyon Garden, 603 Lyon Street.
Hop on your bikes and cruise around central Columbia checking out some of Columbia’s community gardens. Walkers and drivers are also welcome.
Thursday, June 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
719 W. Broadway
James Quinn, MU Extension regional horticulture specialist will give a tour of his garden and discuss different raised bed and intensive gardening techniques. Read more.
Straw mulch is now available for Community Garden Coalition gardeners at the Ash Street Garden. Stop by the garden at 201 West Ash Street and pick up a bale of straw mulch for your plot. Straw mulch has many benefits for your garden, including weed suppression, moisture retention, and shading the soil from the hot summer sun. It is also reusable! Spread it over your garden in the fall to keep the soil covered through the winter, then use it again next year.
As part of World Refugee Day Celebration this Saturday, June 23, join refugee community gardeners for an international potluck and community garden tour at Broadway Christian Church garden, where gardeners from all over the world are finding common ground in growing vegetables. Continue reading
Two Garden Walk and Talk events are coming up to discuss a variety of vegetable gardening topics.
The first Walk and Talk will be held at the garden of James Quinn, MU Extension regional horticulture specialist. James will give us a tour of his garden and discuss different Raised Bed and Intensive Gardening Techniques, which are ideal for community gardens. He grows a wide variety of vegetables and fruit and will also be able to talk about various pest and disease issues.
Thursday, June 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
719 W. Broadway, corner of Broadway and Anderson Parking in the Montessori School lot (directly across Anderson) is okay if no school events are happening.
The Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and the Community Garden Coalition present the 2012 Garden Cruise! Hop on your bikes and cruise around central Columbia checking out some of Columbia’s community gardens. Walkers and drivers are also welcome.
The tour is on Saturday, June 30 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. It will start with a light breakfast at the Circus Lyon Garden, 603 Lyon Street, and end at the CCUA Urban Farm, at Smith and Fay streets.
Email outreach@columbiaurbanag.org if you’re interested! Registration is not required, but we’d like to get an idea of how many people to expect.
Please note, the food preservation workshop, scheduled for Thursday, has been canceled. Not enough people registered. We’ll post anything we hear about future classes.
Jim Quinn, our local horticulture extension agent, will host a FREE organic pest control workshop Monday, May 21 at the Health Department. We’ll start inside at 6 p.m. then head out to the garden for demonstration and questions.
The Health Department is located at 1005 W. Worley St.
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.
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