Arroyo Community Garden

ACG January 2012

2012-01-22T10:13:00.000-08:00

Our 1st work day of 2012 went very well. We munched on bagels, cookies & coffee. We received and spread a load of Mango Mulch (thanks to Grab & Grow). We created a garden box for our new members, Stan & Carol. We planted Avocado and Gravenstein trees, pulled weeds, created a trellis for the grapes & moved the strawberries. Six days later our first good rain came. What timing!!!

September 2011

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July at the ACG

2011-07-24T16:12:00.000-07:00

Hello, ACG has taken on a whole new look this summer. I think members are planting better and smarter than last year. Tomatoes are not being watered as much, over-crowding is less frequent, our storage shed is built and flowers are coming up everywhere! Please enjoy these shots of the ACG flowers in July 2011...

Thanks Garden Team!

2011-06-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

It's June 25th and summer's finally here. We had a work day today. Members got to create their stepping stone with their garden bed number on it. Dave & John nearly completed the shed. Weeds got pulled around the compost bin and we started spreading our new pile of mulch around it. Our apples are looking good! Please enjoy today's photographs of our beautiful summer garden.

2011-04-24T19:57:00.000-07:00

Spring 2011!

2011-04-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

Hello fellow gardeners,

We had a good work day on Saturday, April 23. There we 20 of there (counting the kids...but they helped too - see pics). The trees are all blooming. The clutter is organized. The organic compost is just right. Seeds are planted and lettuces are ripe for the picking. Please enjoy the latest pictures!

Soggy ACG Work Day

2011-02-19T20:14:00.000-08:00

First, a big thank you to all who came out (in the rain) to help with filling the beds, spreading the mulch, building beds, & bring the food. Sarah, your soup was delicious! Rebecca's apple cake

was awesome! Let's keep filling in the beds. We still have lots of soil and compost. Next comes the building of the tool shed. Looking forward to a great year!

ACG Work Day Feb 19th!

2011-02-15T06:16:00.000-08:00

We're having a work day on the 19th. We will have new soil to top off the beds and fill the new ones. There's new wood chips to spread. We will be preparing the foundation for our new tool shed. Hope it's a dry day!

2011-01-29T23:26:00.000-08:00

ACG Work Day 1/29/11

2011-01-29T23:00:00.000-08:00

Thanks to all ACG members and visitors for attending our work day and compost workshop. We

pulled lots of weeds. We planted several fruit trees and built a compost bin. We would like to send out a special thank you to Laura for speaking with us about organic composting and for helping ACG with building a successful compost bin.

Compost Workshop Jan 29th

2011-01-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

The Arroyo Community Garden is hosting an Organic Composting Workshop on January 29th at 10:00am. The workshop instructor will be Laura Colvin, an avid organic gardner and guest speaker. Laura will be discussing various methods of fast & slow composting, gathering and storing various building materials, and methods of piling (depending on needs, rodent problems, etc). Learn how to build a multi-bin composting system and build a proper compost pile. Work clothes, work shoes and gloves are recommended. We will have coffee, water and snacks! See ya at the garden!

ACG Winter

2011-01-16T11:37:00.000-08:00

Well,

Winter is now here and the garden is looking sleepy. The ground is saturated (which makes for easy weed pulling) and the apple trees are bare. I'm excited to see the new changes for this year. We may see a storage shed, new compost bins/piles, a sign & new gardeners.

August 14 2010 Garden Photos!

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The tomatoes are comin', the tomatoes are comin'!!! I can't wait for our fresh ones to eat. One of my favorites is fresh jasmine rice, boiled eggs and fresh tomatoes for breakfast...yum. My other favorite is fresh pico de gallo.

Chilly Summer Daze...

2010-07-27T19:32:00.000-07:00

Well, I must say, the garden's looking great these days!

My squash is climbing the trellis beautifully.

My zucchinis are goin' nuts.

Mustard greens are almost ready to start picking.

Cucumbers are doing well.

Eggplants have just finished flowering.

And oh the tomatoes!

Everyone's garden is looking fabulous!

Remember to come to the garden this saturday for our projects.

Before and After

2010-07-21T14:32:00.000-07:00

Scott Hampton provided these nice before and after pictures. The garden is bursting at the seams!

Before:

After:

Workday Saturday June 12th

2010-06-08T22:53:00.000-07:00

We are having an all hands gardeners meeting Saturday June 12th at 9 am sharp. We will cover garden introductions, guidelines, emergency procedures, and "First Harvest Celebration." Also, if you want to join up, this would be a great time to do so.

This will be followed by an ACG work day in the garden for all box holders which will include planting available garden space for production to be donated to the local Petaluma food pantry, weeding paths, building berms, moving soil, moving mulch, building composte bins and other garden task. Participation in garden work days is part of each of our commitment to the garden community.

The Garden IS

2010-05-25T13:04:00.000-07:00

Thank you for your support, participation ... YOU did it. ACG is!!!

Saturday, ACG garden volunteers filled garden boxes with soil and compost.
AND...planted.
Arroyo Community Garden is built, seeded, planted and growing.
All as a result of a partnership with Living Word Lutheran Church, Petaluma Bounty, friends and neighbors who have come together to create this wonderful community garden. Thank you.

Of course there are things to do in the garden and yes we'll continue to have monthly work days and look forward to your continued participation.

Mark and Elaine started us all off early in the morning (9 am) with bagels, cream cheeses and fresh home ground and made coffee. Thank you. Then Elaine made sandwiches to share ...delicious. One of the top three sandwiches of all time. Thank you again.

Rebecca put us all to the test first thing ... seeing if we could follow directions and move together...she directed us how to move two boxes and turn them around. It worked - community team work.

Denise, Angelo, Rebecca all brought plants to share.

Karen was tending to plants between shoveling loads of compost.

Sandy and Bill were in the garden shoveling and planting ...unsupervised...no grand daughter with them this time.

Kathy and David shoveled and constructed.

Dennis and his wife from the church join us to shovel with us gardeners - Thank you both.

Jessica was returned, from Thursday, to help shovel.

Angelo shoveled and planted ... and planted corn.

Jim made special pick up and deliveries...Thank you.

Corkie spent the day sorting out our finances, volunteer hours (be sure to let us know your April and May hours by the end of the month), what plot fees are due, writing and sending "thank you's" to each of our donors. Thank You!!!You raised over $5,500 to build the garden. Including in-kind donations garden cost close to $10,000. Volunteer hour total is: (oops...haven't receive your hours for April and May - please send now. Thanks).

Although Saturday was the last in a long series of continuous Saturday community garden work days since January, and ACG is basically built, we will continue to have monthly community garden work days. The community work days are considered part of the community garden commitment to maintain the garden in good standing for us and our host, Living Word Lutheran Church.
Participating in monthly work days is part of the commitment each of us agreed to when we signed with ACG. Work days will usually be a Saturday and begin at 9 am.
We'll let you know next week when the next work day will be in June.

Some of the little and big things that will need tending in the upcoming months in the garden include: cleaning up along the back fence of "stuff"; setting up the visual screen properly; building a garden shed; building a potting bench; erecting a proper compost bins; creating and planting the perimeter berms; and of course managing the weeds and keeping the garden clean and organized.

Thank you again for building a great garden.
Arroyo Community Garden
Lead Team

May 15th in the garden

2010-05-25T10:13:00.000-07:00

On May 15 it was the weekend of the 350 Garden Challenge and like most Saturdays, there was a lot of activity at the garden. Here is a compressed version of what happened. Boxes built and soil and compost moved.

Welcome To Our Garden

2010-05-16T18:39:00.000-07:00

You can join our email list here : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArroyoCommunityGarden/ and this is our blog.We have been working for the past several months on starting up this garden on land generously provided by the Living Word Lutheran Church with help and guidance from Petaluma Bounty and members of our community. Please visit here to find updates or just show up for a work day and to get yourself a garden box. We are there most Saturdays these days.