Plots NOT worked in?

Hello Gardeners!

If your plot is not worked in by June 1st, 2 weeks from today we will be re-renting your plot out to future gardeners on our waiting list.

Please, spread the word if you know these gardeners to help them keep their plot for 2018 season!

3437 Community Garden Plot 

Powderhorn Park

15th Avenue South

2) Janet  Count                                                                              1A)Michael Robison
4) Rachel Holm                                                                             1) Jessica Jacobson
6) Bretton Fobes                                                                           3) Lynn Beuning
6A) Graham Charlton                                                                  5) Adabell
8) Leah                                                                                      7) Deb
10) Nicole/ Dan/family                                                               9) Emily D.
12) Ashley  Huebner                                                                   11) Rowen
14)Michelle Vidovio/Mike Wolf                                                 13) Caitlin O'Fallon(fixing plot wood
                                                                                                         next Tuesday 5/22/2018)
16) Michaela Fogelman                                                              15) Kim/Chris
18)Emily Roembach-Clark/family                                           17) Malinda/family
20)Shelby                                                                                   19)Heather/family
22)Lesley                                                                                   21)Mike/Juliet
Blackberries 24)Nikole Stephenson                                            Raspberries Plot

Compost

Well this happened: Heart of the Beast Theater is hosting a Plate-to-Garden compost sale in partnership with the MN Composting Council and Specialized Environmental Technologies, Inc. Saturday May 12th 10:00 am-2:00 pm in the Powderhorn Park parking lot!

They had an amazing turn out and sold all their compost. Happy for them but this leaves us with no compost sooo if you are interested in compost this year let me know by email (3437garden@gmail.com) by next Tuesday at 2pm.   I will get a bag for you. 

We are going to go in with Heart of the Beast Theater hosting the Plate-to-Garden compost sale in partnership with the MN Composting Council and Specialized Environmental Technologies, Inc.    for next springs compost!  I will see if they are willing to have their sale before MayDay next year so we are able to get it earlier in the spring season.

Sorry it's not much this year but thanks for your understanding with this process!

Logo!?

 The Powderhorn Park Association asked for us to share a logo with them to be used throughout the community to bring more awareness of the community garden. We are looking for a logo for the 3437 Community Garden! 

We will be using this logo at our plant sale at the Tiny Diner on Friday, May 31st. more info coming soon about this event!

I'll post all the logos on the blog Saturday May 26th morning and we will do a email vote till Monday May 28th when I'll post the winning logo!

Email 3437garden@gmail.com a drawing of your logo by Friday May 25th!

Another Tiny Diner Class!!!

Hey all,

Tiny Diner co-workers Cody and Koby have a great connection to a bare root aronia grower and will be selling a limited number of plants at the plant sale. I think this is another great way to get people to the sale! Tiny Diner will manage RSVPs and purchases for this class. Description below. 

Grow Aronia Berry Plants! Hands-on Workshop

Thursday May 31st

Time 6-7pm

Location: Tiny Diner during Plant Sale

Cost: $5 for plant material

Would you like to grow a unique, cold-hearty, heat-tolerant, edible berry plant in your small (or large) space this year? Come to our short and sweet workshop all about the Aronia berry species. We will be planting a new Aronia crop in the Tiny Diner gardens together. Plus, you will receive planting and care instructions and take a barefoot plant home with you. Limited space due to limited plants so please RSVP ASAP with andrea.e@tinydiner.com.

Instructors: Tiny Diner’s Farm, Garden, and Market Advisor Koby Hagen and Tiny Diner’s Lead Gardener Cody Mastel will lead this fun class! 

Thanks! 

Andrea Eger
Permaculture Education and Market Coordinator
Tiny Diner
612-644-2292

COMPOST

MayDay's Green Team has been making the festival an exceptionally greenevent for 5 years of working towards zero waste! In the last 3 years the Green Team got over 75% of the festival's waste has been diverted. In 2017, they were able to divert 2,600 pounds-81% of the total discard!

The organic waste form the festival will get transported to a commercial composting facility where it goes through a 6-month curing process to become finished compost. 

Heart of the Beast Theater is hosting a Plate-to-Garden compost sale in partnership with the MN Composting COuncil and Specialized Environmental Technologies, Inc. Saturday May 12th 10:00 am-2:00 pm in the Powderhorn Park parking lot!

They'll have two hundred 20 lbs. pags of Organic compost at $5.00 a bag. Spread the word! 

The process from this compost sale will help cover the cost of the Green Team's Zero Waste initiatives at MayDay. Also to the community garden! In the past we have gotten compost from the city but it is from city yard waste and we are unsure how much of it is organic and what all is in it, it also has a lot of trash in it. 
Meeting with Tanya we would like to try to work as a community with the Green Team next year with splitting the cost of the delivery and moving of the compost.

 Help volunteer moving the left over compost with the Green Team this Saturday May 12th, 1:30-2:30 pm to our garden! They are asking for our help and contribution to support there event so they can repeat this event next year and we can order/deliver our 2019 compost together with the Green Team!
Who ever can make it and volunteer this Saturday May 12th 1:30-2:30 will get offered a discount on mulch of 40 lbs./2 bags (bags provided on site) for $5.00.

If your interested contact Tanya Feldkamp at: t.l.feldkamp@gmail.com and Lynn at:3437gaden@gmail.com

A special thank you to Jenny Kedward, a former 3437 Community Gardener who kept us in her heart and knew we would be interested in working as a community with the Green Team! 

connect the blog to your email

here is how you can connect your email to the blog. Please, share with other gardeners! The blog is our main source of stayen in the communication loop.

upcoming classes

If you want to go with someone let me know. would be fun to get some of us 3437 gardeners together!

Hello community gardeners of Minneapolis! 

I am writing to share two upcoming classes that I think will be especially beneficial to community gardeners in Minneapolis. The first is a class about how to use cover crops in urban gardens. Cover cropping is essential for maintaining and building soil nutrients, soil life, and organic matter. It's a very easy to begin and the benefits are huge! The other class is an introduction to seed saving with Twin Cities-based Seed Sages, a organization that hosts trainings and consultations to reskill our communities to save our food's genetic diversity. 

All classes take place at Tiny Diner (1024 E 38th St, Minneapolis) and are sliding scale to make them accessible to all. Space is limited so please send RSVPs to andrea.e@tinydiner.com. 

Please feel free to share this information with your networks. 

Cover Crops for Urban GardenersThursday May 10th from 7-8

Cover crops or green manure is an age old agriculture technique and there is good reason for this. This class will focus on basics of soil heath, case studies of cover crops, sourcing and management. Nick will also talk about cover cropping can work with other backyard carbon and poultry systems. You will leave feeling confident on how to integrate and manage cover crops into your garden for the longterm benefit of soil health. This class is a $10 sliding scale.

Teacher information: Nick Schneider owes and operates Thrive Chef Works LLC, a personal chef and catering company. Next to cooking good food, growing good food is Nick's equally vital passion. His formal experience as a grower includes 3 years as market garden manager for former St. Paul urban Agriculture non-profit, Farm in the City, a summer teaching gardening classes for Gardening Matters, and a summer doing farm work in Italy through WWOOF. He regenerated and expanded a community orchard for Omega One ltd, a Minneapolis intentional community. Nick is a co-founder of Mixed Precipitation Theatre Collaborative and has acted as the lead chef since its inception 10 years ago.

Backyard Seed Saving I: Save Biodiversity in Your BackyardSaturday May 27th from 2-3 

Learn how you can save and pass on agricultural biodiversity in your home and community this season. It can be easy with a few tips Koby JH of Seed Sages. This class is a $5-10 sliding scale. 

Teacher Information: Koby Jeschkeit-Hagen is the founder of Seed Sages, a local seed saving organization that provides trainings, consultations, and education.  Seed stewardship and biodiversity conservation is a driving force behind her work. She has worked at Emandal Farm, JD Rivers Children’s Garden, Seed Savers Exchange, Seeds of Change, and Ecology Action. She also has a masters in Community and Regional Planning as well as Permaculture training. She draws on many approaches to share diverse seed saving, farming and community-building methods.

Thanks all and happy growing! 

Rainy 2nd community work night

hello all!
sorry for the last min post but I will not be able to meet tonight for work kept me till now. Croup is in my classroom and I'm feeling it a bit.
If you'd like to join other who are still making it tonight thank you so much!  I planned on picking weeds tonight.

Happy Spring! How beautiful the park and garden look with this rain and cooler sky weather!

Our compost is coming soon! Meeting with them tomorrow to arrange a time for dumping.

Leaves

A handful of you are asking about the leaves in the walkway :)  We placed them there and plan on keeping them there this year in replace of mulch. We'll see how it works with keeping the weeds down and how it holds up with the foot traffic. 

Thanks for all the enthusiasm with helping out this year!!!

Water

The water is on! Let's do our best to keep the rain barrels full, thanks!