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Updates
3rd Grade Visit- Worm Towers! More Adult Volunteers Needed
On a beautiful warm South Florida day about one hundred 3rd graders from Tedder elementary came bouncing through the gates to enjoy over an hour’s worth of learning and fun at the Garden and Fruit Forest. As you can see from the pictures below, today’s …
In Memoriam Rick Don Coffey
UPDATE: Memorial Service for Rick at Parkway United Methodist Church (site of the garden as well) on Tuesday, April 13th at 7PM
Rick Don Coffey was killed in an accident on Friday April 2, 2010 while riding his bike at Sample and Military Trail.
Rick has been a part of our garden project from the beginning. He dug, planted, cleared, watered and found some sense of belonging and purpose.
Rick also attended church at Parkway, including Bible study and other gatherings.
He will be missed by all of us. We will post relevant information on arrangements as it becomes available.
Black Hen has arrived
Old fashioned Black Hen organic fertilizer (otherwise known as dried chicken poo)– Good for fruit trees now that warm weather is sort of here.– Old time farmers would probably scratch their heads and say, “You had to buy this stuff?”
Tedder Elementary Field Trip 3/23/10
On a gorgeous Tuesday morning almost 100 2nd graders ambled the few blocks from their school to the garden to follow up on last year’s visit and learn new things as well. This visit included Sunflower circle revisit with new seed planting and explanation about …
Green Beans for Pantry- Workshop for the Community
Check out what’s starting to grow like crazy in the food pantry plots, green beans! Tasty local organic green beans for hungry folks who visit the Saturday food pantry.
As a point of comparison check out similar items at a local grocer: local, but not organic and priced beyond what many can afford.
Also, don’t forget our Leadership Workshop this Saturday, March 20th:
should be a great time of brainstorming, learning and growing together. If you haven’t signed up yet go to the “Leadership Workshop” tab for details and to sign up.
Great sunny workday on Saturday
Thank you marvelous volunteers! What a great day of projects and sunshine at the garden! Remember the work list? Everything got accomplished: 1) The new Food Pantry plot was dug and de-rocked (2 bins of rocks!) 2) Banana circles got remulched and re-sweet potatoe ized …
Rainy Friday, yes, but Saturday is supposed to be sunny
If Saturday is sunny please plan on joining us by working on some great garden projects. Certainly the plants are well watered!
Volunteer Workday at Parkway Tedder Community Garden: Mar 13th 2010
This Saturday promises to be a great morning of hard work and fun with an unusual food drive and lots of great outdoor garden expansion projects!
Time: 9:00 AM to 12Noon, Saturday March 13th 2010
Place: Parkway Tedder Community Garden, Deerfield Beach FL
Food Drive: Fresh Produce Donation for local food pantries
Bring a pound of your favorite produce and share nutritious food with those in need who seek help at the Parkway United Methodist food pantry (open every Saturday morning). If there is more fresh food than the pantry can handle our partners at Blessings Food Pantry in Pompano Beach (open 5 days a week) will be happy to distribute the rest on Monday morning. Blessings has already distributed fresh greens from the Parkway-Tedder Garden to those in need thankful for the ‘fresh’ surprise.
Outdoor garden workday projects for March 13th:
1) Plant Green Beans in Food Pantry Plots
2) Divide out and replant baby banana trees to expand the Banana circles
3) Plant new sunflowers in the Sunflower patch
4) Plant sweet potatoes around Banana circles and around Sunflower patch
5) Stake trees that winter winds blew down
6) Weed and mulch garden paths
What to bring:
1 lb (or more) of your favorite fresh produce.
Proper work clothes— see our “workdays” tab on the website for specifics:
Workdays
See you in the Garden!
Tea in the Garden- A well watered success: part 2
When last we wrote, the rain had poured, stopped, and a rainbow had come out! At 5:30pm the sun showed up and so did Tea in the Garden guests. Hesitantly at first, wondering if they would find anything going on in the Garden…folks beamed when …
Tea in the Garden- A well watered success: part 1
Things looked a little iffy at 3:30 pm on Saturday the 27th, the afternoon of the big event. The wind picked up and weather radar showed bands moving through the whole region–then the rains really began! For a little while it looked like the party …
Tea in the Garden- Buy your tickets now!
Here’s the official ad:
Here’s the link for Tickets
PLEASE NOTE: TICKET PRICES HAVE NOT GONE UP, DUE TO EARLY TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE WEBSITE WE ARE KEEPING THEM THE SAME AS ON OUR OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
See you in the Fruit Forest!
“Church, community take garden concept to next level”
Check out this article written by the Methodist conference on the Parkway Tedder Community Garden and its partnering church, Parkway United Methodist. E- Review Article http://www.flumc.info/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000062/006200.htm