2020 Gardening year!

2020 Gardening

Thanks for your interest in the 3437 community garden! Thank you for your patience with our delay of connecting. The city of Minneapolis has set required guidelines for leasing City-owned lots for community gardening this year cause of Covid-19. There will be an upcoming detailed post with this information along with changes happening in the garden to keep everyone safe.

We are looking at creative ways to stay safe but connected this year in our community garden! Coming up next week will be a video tour of the 3437 community garden we have and how we work with in it! 

Hello, I am Lynn, Organizer and Communication Garden Manager and gardener for the 3437 Garden.  I am very excited to be going on my fifth year with managing 3437 Community garden. Working with the land was a part of my childhood. I was raised on a beautiful farm in Central Minnesota, and had a handful of horticulture experiences after moving from the farm. Working at the U of M Landscape Arboretum for two seasons was an incredible experience.  In 2012 I moved to South Minneapolis to further my Early Childhood Teaching career but gardening never left my heart.  I’ve had a plot with the 3437 Garden for 6 years and I’m excited to be present in the garden again this coming season!

I am excited to welcome Rowen who will be co-managing the garden with me this year! Rowen has bean looking forward to gardening all winter and thinks it's kind of a big dill that our plans aren't being squashed and instead we get to patch together a creative approach to nourish our inner peas and agra-community connections. 

Growing up she was a bit of a country pumpkin and a summer day spent sneaking seeds to start a 'garden' outside the stick fort by the creek just couldn't be beet. Now she sits in front of a computer all day and is finding the idea of some sun pars(ley)icularly appeeling! (That one was maybe a bit much - lettuce all move on). She ap-peach-iates the chance to volunteer and was feeling a little meloncholy, but is now looking forward to some great community garden thymes!  

Steps to take to join the 3437 community garden:

Garden meetings are on April 20th at 6 pm and April 25th at 9 am. Located: in the 3437 community garden.

1.) Last year gardeners email us saying you want your plot again this year by, April 20th at 1 pm or show up at our first garden meeting on Monday, April 20th at 6 pm. 

If we do not hear from by email or see you at our April 20th meeting your plot will be rented out to another gardener. 

2.) New gardeners join us at one of our meetings or email us starting April 25th for a plot.

3.) What plots are available? Plot maps will be posted on this blog and updated daily

At the meeting we will:

*Welcome everyone
*Explain garden rules and history
*Go over and set a basic work plan and schedule for the gardening season
* Look over garden agreements (also posted on the blog)
*Assign plots
*Go over prohibited plants: Squash, Watermelon, Pumpkin, Cucumber THE VINES GET OUT OF CONTROL
*Pay plot fee
*Answer questions spring cleaning if we can depending on mother nature

There are 24 plots that are 12' x 4' and will cost $20. This includes water, compost, access to tools and amazing opportunities to connect with your growing neighbors.

We also have a "communal" gardening area with herbs, perennials and annuals. We also organize donations of our produce abundance to neighborhood organizations.

We would like to reach out to all of our neighbors, so if you are bilingual and would be willing to share your skills to translate materials and be a garden resource. Please, spread the word about the Community garden!

Easy gardening ideas: Spinach, lettuce, chard, kale, peas (need a trellis) beans, radish, beet, broccoli, tomatoes, herbs, peppers, eggplant, parsnip......

Our garden is organic- so no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, etc.

We ask that as a community we work together to keep the garden clean and sustainable with:

* picking up trash

*no illegal plants

*keep plants contained in your plot

*pick from your own plot

*no drinking alcohol in garden

*no planting squash, watermelon,cucumbers or pumpkins THE VINES GET OUT OF CONTROL *water by hand from the rain barrels

*keep lids on barrels to prevent wildlife from entering

*fill barrels when below 1/3 full

*compost nothing larger than 4"

*do not compost weeds that have seeded, diseased plants, no tomatoes

All garden organization is up for discussion! email, call or text  Lynn 612.554.6656 and Rowen 605.490.2273 if you have ideas! 3437garden@gmail.com