Our last hurrah for the end of the fall 2020 semester! Join us to help finish our Community Space and prep our donation plots for winter. All ages are welcome, masks are required.
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November Volunteer Day
Come out and help us work on the next step of our Community Space project! Last time, we got rained out, so there’s still plenty of building and painting to be done! All ages are welcome, masks are required.
Pollinator Gardening Webinar
Interested in learning about pollinators and how to attract them to your garden? Join us on Wed November 11 at 11 am for a zoom chat with Dr. Miriam Jenkins, an expert on all things sustainable ag. She’ll be letting us know about our native pollinators to look out for and how to best support them in our gardens. This event will be hosted via Zoom.
Volunteer Day: Community Space Build
Join us on Thursday, October 15 from 4-7 pm to help us build our community space at the garden! We’ll be spreading mulch for a seating area and turning old pallets into picnic tables. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Masks are required.
Let’s Talk Soil Health
Niamke Shropshire-Boykin is a senior Horticulture student at Auburn University and the president of the Organic Gardening Club. He will be giving a hands-on talk about the importance of feeding the soil, and the benefits of supporting a diverse soil microbiome in your garden. Open to the public.
2020 Garden Kickoff and Community Day
This is our first Community Day of the year. Everyone is welcome to join us as we get our garden ready for spring planting! This event also serves as a new gardener orientation. Enjoy the outdoors with free coffee and bagels, and some hands on time in the dirt! Come for all or only a part of the morning.
Compost Bootcamp
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. Please visit the Facebook event page (linked below) for updates.
Learn how to compost at home and at the garden with this hands-on composting workshop at the Community Garden! We’ll build a compost bin, showing you how to build your own at home, and explain what should and shouldn’t be composted. Come learn all about composting with us!
Open Garden Work Day
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED.
Need to have your plot tilled? Just want an excuse to spend the morning puttering around the garden? Come on out for an open garden work day. The garden crew will be on hand to assist you and to provide any tools that you may need to get your spring planting started.
February 2020 Community Day & Garden Orientation
Join us on Saturday, February 29th from 9 am – noon for our first Community Day of the year! This event will also serve as orientation for all new gardeners, and will be a chance for all gardeners to meet and get to know each other at the start of the season. There will be free coffee and breakfast provided! Looking forward to seeing you all there!