Good Food & Sundays in the Garden continues....email your interest and we can schedule summer garden/days; we could meet to help with your projects at the location of your choice.
What about creating a community garden/demonstration site?
For now the site is a PERMACULTURE URBAN HOMESTEAD IN PROCESS in Sweet Home. You bring good energy, gloves for work in the garden & have some fun celebrating the Summer Solstice!!! June 21st...be sure to plan to join us here. Feedback appreciated, so if you have any interest pick from the list below send suggestions for what we can do at your place or mine (or better yet school or park or public place) and join us....
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Are you still out there? Choose one!
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*CREATE A COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: SHARE GARDEN TIPS & IDEAS, PLANTS, SEEDsS, GOOD COMPANY & FOOD FROM THE GARDEN
*WINTER GARDENING with AFFORDABLE SEASON EXTENDERS (including
*SOLAR COLD FRAME & MINI-GREENHOUSE)
*MULCHING & COMPOSTING - MAKE YOUR OWN RICH ORGANIC SOIL WITH LOCAL MATERIALS
*COMPOST THE EASY WAY
*NO TILL GARDENS & CONVERT YOUR LAWN TO GARDEN
*VERMICOMPOSTING (Worm bin)
*WATER GARDENS (PONDS)
*EARTHEN BREAD OVEN (for PIZZAS, BREAD,
HOLIDAY MEALS & EVERYDAY BAKING
*SMALL SCALE RAINH20 HARVESTING SYSTEMS
*EARTHWORKS TO HARVEST RAIN
*RAIN CHAINS, BASINS & RAIN GARDENS
*PLANT A ROW FOR THE HUNGRY
*GARDENS THAT A CHILD CAN GROW
*NATIVE PLANTS/WOODLAND GARDEN
*INSECT CASTLE
*BEES FOR THE GARDENS - Pollinator Plants & Shelter
...and more!
Permaculture/Sustainable Living - Learn by Doing
Please RSVP (yes or no) by email: dawnvoyager@gmail.com or call 541 367 8896 for the location & directions
Wish List: Seeking anyone who cares about the earth, people and wants to create a surplus to share, come & join us!!!
Also see good news &
the ultimate "how-to be sustainable"
by clicking on links below:
EARTH DAY, 2013!!!! A FREE video series on Permaculture Design Strategies produced & to be shared by all - sent by Geoff Lawton &
Geoff Lawton: "I would like to encourage you to sit back, watch the videos and share it with your friends and please fill out a comment to let me know what you think. We can inhabit this world forever if we are courageous. All the best, keep up the good work. Warm Regards...." GL
"Sundays in the Garden "
PLANS FOR 2013 - changes happen, so I will try to keep this blog up to date.
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| chicken & scarlet runner beans |
Sunday
March 17 (St. Patty's Day) everyone bring a token of green (plant,
container, something funny) to share and I will have something (surprise!)
"green" to share with you.
The project will be to plant the transplants that are
ready to go out in the garden and give them what they need to feed us well in
return (garden beds, amendments and preparation for planting). These will have
been sprouted inside or in the season extenders. (Solar Cold Frame, Hoop
House/Mini Greenhouse, & uses of the N. side glass house). We will also
make a little celebration of the equinox and learn to do the Solar Dance, to
learn to orient yourself to your own site best growing spots (learn about
microclimates, how to make seed balz & DIY super easy small garden beds - start to finish).
Also remember the ongoing exchange: Each Sunday we meet bring your offerings & those who want will be able to swap seeds plant/tuber/corm. Let us know what you are searching for... If you've never tried it, I think you will find it an inspiration to get gardening or at the very least, just enjoy the swap. I also have some house plants to share. My list of ready to swap includes: OR Type II Snow Peas; Scarlet Runner Beans; Provider Green Beans (bush); plant starts: native violets, comfry, lambs ear, forget-me-not, chives, onions. My wish list includes all Asian Greens (pac choi, bok choy) will list changes as time goes on.
Warning: spring fever is
contagious!
PLEASE NOTE: If any of you have a project you've been wishing to do, we can give you some help. We can do a round-robin of garden building or most any reasonable project to do with gardening/growing our own food. We can plan it on the Sunday afternoon you come, and see what is possible, with all that great energy that this group has exhibited!
Below is a link to a short article that I think you will enjoy. It explains our current conundrum, and you may find answers to many questions about the seeds in our collections and the future of our gardens in an effort to be sustainable. If you find it hard to access and you want a copy, I will help get it for you.
Sunday March 24- (Palm Sunday) See how to convert a lawn into a garden that grows your food, and why we can and should? do without the "lawn"; transforming a suburban property (4 years in the making), passive solar remodeling ideas, rain water catchment, edible and vertical landscaping, plans to remodel driveway - reclaim automobile space, herb spiral rebuilt and loving it, season extenders in all their glory, and planting potatoes!!! Bring something to bake in the earth oven; see ideas for including chickens, rabbit, bees in your "garden" space; make this growing season easy & make new friends! Start a ride-share group for carpooling to great events in the area
Sunday, March 31: (Easter) come for a quiet and peaceful afternoon in the garden. Find a spot here that makes you feel comfortable & share a time for reflection on our plans for the future and hopes that we can succeed in being as sustainable as it is humanly possible to be. I know that many of you have other plans for that time, so if you do come, it will be more of a sharing of our hopes and plans and I will also be happy to show you the progress of permaculture strategies in place on this site that might be of interest and helpful to you. We can talk about Healing Gardens as well.
Posts from earlier:
******************************************** ***check out the photos from our tour of Adaptive Seeds on Feb. 17 below! Thanks to Donald Lyon www.cuephoto.com
Sunday, March 10: We are approaching the Equinox so (perhaps on your calendar as the first day of spring?) which kicks my spring fever into high gear regardless of the weather! So please note that the next 3 Sundays, March 10, 17, 24 will be celebrations of spring to come, if not already here! Starting this Sunday we will be doing the glorious job of "making soil" in 3 easy to DIY sizes (tiny, regular and very large) Come and see how easy it is to do a passive type composting & to have your own potting soil/planting mix ready for you whenever you need it, without purchasing that commercial stuff that none of us is sure where or what it came from....we will be potting up some "black gold" made here and planting seeds for transplant later in the year. Bring your small nursery pots you have saved, or small yogurt containers to take some home!
Sunday, March 3: DIY Compost Bin & Organic Compost
eeeooo! that looks like trash....but, no, it's ....YES! A COMPOST BIN! DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ALSO A WORM CONDOMINIUM AND IT'S OUTPUT IS THE BEST OF ALL SOILS FOR OUR FOOD GARDEN:
ORGANIC COMPOST!
SUNDAY FEB. 24: Yes we did: BUILD A COMPOST BIN at AMY's homestead out on Liberty Road. She won the lottery! She had the materials ready and the site all picked out. We got 'er done...with some cheerleading from the farm "crew" ! They all came to see what was happening....ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, homing pigeons, cows, sheepling, goatlings, and horses...there were others...
oh, yes and the small voice from the ground..."we are here, we are here..."
Is that you Eisenia Fetida?
We most often hear them called "red wrigglers" and they are the best for composting soil because they digest nearly their weight of waste per day, creating lots of precious castings. They also enjoy eating close to the surface so they will happily eat food you place at or just under the surface. And no, we don't have to pay to have them stuffed in a box and shipped from faar away. They can be found right there in your garden. See
Amy's new play pen...NO..sorry..... it's a
COMPOST BIN! And if you bend down and listen closely you can hear them say in a tiny voice,
".....we are here!.................thanks for our new WORM BIN INN!"
and in a few weeks there will be the evidence of what these little guys can do....we could call it worm poo ! but if we call it worm castings we could make a mint selling it!!!!! Or... we can make a garden grow better than ever!
We can also build a portable compost bin. That is, one that we can assemble, using materials available (e.g., pallets) and use it for a demonstration "model", then move it to the site of the gardener who needs it when it is convenient. We will use 4 pallets, assemble and add 3 or 4 layers of materials inside as the "starter" to get the composter critters going.
Next time March 3: maybe...
We can build one for Gail, if she's ready and/or we can prepare a small early spring (OK it's still winter!) garden bed, and use the lovely composted soil created in my compost bin which has been "working" all winter, and plant some spinach seed we got from Adaptive Seeds last Sunday as a way to satisfy some Spring Fever going on here! You can let us know if there is something more exciting we can do at your place....??
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| One day's harvest fall 2012 |
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| Hoop House turned Mini-Greenhouse |
Either way you will get a reminder sometime this week - hope you will put the Sunday afternoons in the garden in your calendar & come & join the fun!
Got Kids? How about making some seed ballz? Or you could even made seed "eggs" for Easter time....
Future DIY DAYS: find out how to do it &; see all these in action
*ONGOING SEED, PLANT, TUBER EXCHANGE
*AFFORDABLE SEASON EXTENDERS &
WINTER GARDENING
*SOLAR COLD FRAME, TINY GREENHOUSE, *MULCHING & COMPOSTING
*NO TILL GARDENS
*HERB SPIRALS & RAISED BEDS
*CREATE A COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: GARDEN
TIPS & IDEAS, PLANTS/SEED, GOOD COMPANY
*NO-COST MULCHING WITH LOCAL MATERIALS
*COMPOST THE EASY WAY
*VERMICOMPOSTING (WORM BIN)
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*SMALL SCALE RAINH20 HARVESTING SYSTEMS
*EARTHWORKS TO HARVEST RAIN
*RAIN CHAINS, BASINS & RAIN GARDENS
*MAKE YOUR OWN RICH ORGANIC SOIL
*CONVERT YOUR LAWN TO GARDEN
*PLANT A ROW FOR THE HUNGRY
*GARDENS THAT A CHILD CAN GROW
*WATER GARDENS (PONDS)
*POLLINATOR PLANTS AND SHELTER
*NATIVE PLANTS/WOODLAND GARDENS
*BEES FOR THE GARDENS
*YOUR IDEAS/RESOURCES?
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Take a break and join us as we pursue GOOD FOOD AND GARDENS this year. We can get into all kinds of fun projects to help us improve our own gardens, produce & be able to share good, healthy, organic & great tasting food grown organically & sustainably in our own back yards. We will be sharing practical strategies to this end.
The first "Sunday
in the Garden" 2013 was held at my site & The hope is that we can meet elsewhere (your place?) That way we can help each other in a
"round-robin" type of get togethers. We can help with small projects & welcome your suggestions. I am hopeful we will also visit local resources in the Food Web.
Hoping to
see you for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoons, as that is still
the time I find others (all very busy folks) available. Other
suggestions are welcome.
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Below are the earlier Sunday "projects"
Feb.
3: Sunday afternoon
- 1 to 4 pm (so you can drop in even for just a little while when it
might be convenient for you). I would like to invite you back to my
place this Sunday (yes, it is way short notice) but since the
calendars are beginning to seriously clog up for most of us, this is
what I am starting with. We can do a seed sorting & sharing &
information exchange indoors, plus a very small bit of planting in
the hoop house if the weather is really nice. So, along with a return
to choosing from all those things we had on the list to-do last year,
this afternoon will include a
resource opportunity - sharing seeds and how-to tips for planting,
making seed balls for planting at your leisure, and if the weather
permits, a little on soil building and planting in season extenders.
(As
you may know, all of my season extenders are experimental as I am
learning that technique in this climate as I go.)
FEB. 10: WORKSHOP AT SUNBOW FARM: Carpool offered to attend a fantastic 5 hours of learning about early crops to start for the Spring & Summer organic garden in this area. Have attended 3 of his workshops and they are genuinely invaluable. See and hear firsthand Harry McCormack's efforts & experience of many years on his farm growing organically year 'round. See www.sunbowfarm.org
MAR. 3: CREATE A SMALL EARLY SPRING GARDEN (Location? Your place?)
Any
interest? Please do let me know, either way! Looking forward to
getting back into GARDENS & GOOD FOOD! Joelee Joyce @ dawnvoyager@gmail.com (preferred)
or 541 367 8896
FUTURE EVENTS: we can focus on projects or visit more local resources & gardens... Your input welcomed!
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sometimes things change...! SO KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR UPDATES!
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