We put the 'Community' in Community Gardens
Fresno Peppers from the Fall Garden
Yes, it is the time for Harvest Moons, Fall Planting, and time for the Fall Camarillo Community Garden’s Meeting.
Come out this Thursday evening, September 20th and join us at 7:00 p.m. in Room 3 of the Community Center.
Here’s a beautiful heirloom tomato we’re showing off- it’s a Black Krim – oh so dense and delicious!
The Ventura County Star ran a great article on the garden and our search for new garden locations. They even created a video, shown below:
Read the full article here: “Second Site Sought for Community Garden”
Saving Seeds
Now that we have been harvesting our crops, a number of people have asked about seed saving. Today I got a a copy of a new publication on seed saving. Although it is designed for teachers with school gardens, there is a bounty of really useful information included for everyone.
I have loaded the book onto our site, and you can read it by clicking this link: A Handful of Seeds – SEED STUDY AND SEED SAVING FOR EDUCATORS, by Tina Poles, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. If you would like to save a copy to your computer, right-click the link and select ‘save as…’ from the pop-up menu.
As I said, this is meant for use in schools, but you will find everything from basic botany, parts of flowers named and explained, what (and why) are there fruits, essays on our major food crops and our food pioneers.
Camarillo Community Garden members, staff and parent from La Mariposa School led a huge work party / educational event Saturday July 31st. The school provided materials and eager students to build a dozen new 8′ x 4′ x 1′ raised garden beds, while we provided guidance to build the beds. A special thanks to Karl for his never-ending enthusiasm and sense of civic duty.
The kids at the school turned out in force. Some of them worked all day and out-lasted their dads. It was a great experience for them to do so much of the work, from digging up sprinkler heads and filling the holes back in, to building the boxes and filling them.
Check out the video of the day’s doings…
We had a few volunteers show up today to put in the water system for the Antonio Garden today in spite of the heat and the weekend day-off. We got as much done as we could. We need to wait for installation of an isolation device to protect the community drinking water supply from any possible contamination.
As soon as the device is installed, we finish the hook up, flush it out and garden.
See the photos and read the article in the website’s ‘News Page’
Nonprofit Delivers Local Produce to Schools, Restaurants Around Charlottesville – washingtonpost.com.
Here’s an interesting approach to food distribution – community gardens and other small producers to band together and become a force… Whether we gather it all together for sale or charity, there will be a lot of excess coming from our gardens.
Dick Proutt is a small farmer, read the article to see how he and the others like him are the answer to feeding a county’s hungry multitude. How do you think we could be benefit to the community?
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The Ventura County Star ran a great article on the garden and our search for new garden locations. They even created a video, shown below: Read … [Read More...]
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