Archive for the 'Garden' Category
June 14th, 2012
Our next volunteer hours at the St. Lydia’s Enough for Everyone Garden will take place this Saturday, June 16, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. We’ll be filling a raised bed, planting some seedlings, building a bench, and moving some dirt around! At 1:00, an Opening Party with a potluck and live music will […]
June 4th, 2012
Last week at the garden, Sarah, Matthew, Jason, and a few other friends were HUGE heroes, finishing up our retaining wall! We also built our final raised bed, and harvested one, singular, and singularly delicious radish. Our next volunteer day will take place on Saturday, June 9 from 11:00 am -3:00 pm. We’ll be […]
May 31st, 2012
Hello friends! We got some good work done on Monday spreading woodchips and digging the ditches for the retaining walls. Kathleen and Richard also did some important worm-relocation work (see below). Our scheduled radish harvest turned out to be premature, but we at the greens from one of them and they were peppery and delicious! […]
May 22nd, 2012
I’ve written a proposal outlining the vision for our garden, as well as some of the practical details for how things will work this summer. I’ll post some excerpts here, and you can read the full text here. The St. Lydia’s Enough for Everyone Garden is a freehold of radical generosity, where growing and eating […]
May 20th, 2012
After lots of hard work this weekend by our many volunteers, I am proud to announce that the Enough for Everyone Garden now has four raised beds filled with soil and planted with tomatoes, eggplant, sweet basil and thai basil, chard, collards, kale, lettuces (four different kinds), arugula, oregano, thyme, peas, cucumbers, beets, turnips, four […]
May 17th, 2012
This past week has been a very productive one at the St. Lydia’s Enough for Everyone Garden. We now have four beds constructed, with three of them filled with soil and compost. Yesterday we planted peas, green and yellow pole beans, red flageolet beans, eggplant, collards, kale, cucumbers and zucchini in the first bed. This […]
May 6th, 2012
The next volunteer hours at the St. Lydia’s Enough for Everyone Garden will be Saturday, May 12 from 10-3. We are hoping to get a good crowd together to build more raised beds and the two retaining walls for our terraces. Come out and enjoy the sunshine and the infectious can-do atmosphere! | I have news! […]
May 3rd, 2012
The St. Lydia’s Garden is part of a new project happening at 346 Bergen Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. We have a 20′ x 40′ plot in a larger Green Thumb garden called A Small Green Patch. Some of the other organizations involved in cultivating this multi-use space include Feedback Farms (a project dreamed up by Clare Sullivan, who […]