Greetings to Current Garden Crew:
Welcome to New "Time and Talent" Recruits:
Thank you very much for your past and future efforts with the St Francis Sustainable Gardens.
Our next event will be a combination "meet and greets with treats" and "fall clean-up" day for Saturday, October 12 (NOT a home Football game Saturday) at 9:00 am.
We will welcome the new time and talent recruits for a quick garden tour and then proceed with fall cleanup of the gardens. Fall cleanup should be only 60 - 90 minutes or less depending on the number of volunteers.
As usual this activity will involve removing and composting the existing "annual" plants and turning over the beds (Please bring a large shovel and/or pruning shears, if you have these tools available).
If leaves have fallen, we will also mulch and add to the plant beds.
Lastly, we hope to empty the rain barrel and clean out, inventory, and repackage the storage chest of materials and equipment.
Once again, many thanks to the 2012 - 2013 volunteers. The harvest was bountiful throughout the summer (Patrick Sherry is currently tabulating the final numbers) basically finishing with 36 pounds of red and Yukon gold potatoes from the potato dig with the St Francis six-graders who helped last Friday.(see example photos including "hugging carrots").
Dress for work and weather!
In Christ,
Erich Jensen and Rose Sherry
Garden Coordinators
734.771.8511 (Erich's cell)
Thank you very much for your past and future efforts with the St Francis Sustainable Gardens.
Our next event will be a combination "meet and greets with treats" and "fall clean-up" day for Saturday, October 12 (NOT a home Football game Saturday) at 9:00 am.
We will welcome the new time and talent recruits for a quick garden tour and then proceed with fall cleanup of the gardens. Fall cleanup should be only 60 - 90 minutes or less depending on the number of volunteers.
As usual this activity will involve removing and composting the existing "annual" plants and turning over the beds (Please bring a large shovel and/or pruning shears, if you have these tools available).
If leaves have fallen, we will also mulch and add to the plant beds.
Lastly, we hope to empty the rain barrel and clean out, inventory, and repackage the storage chest of materials and equipment.
Once again, many thanks to the 2012 - 2013 volunteers. The harvest was bountiful throughout the summer (Patrick Sherry is currently tabulating the final numbers) basically finishing with 36 pounds of red and Yukon gold potatoes from the potato dig with the St Francis six-graders who helped last Friday.(see example photos including "hugging carrots").
Dress for work and weather!
In Christ,
Erich Jensen and Rose Sherry
Garden Coordinators
734.771.8511 (Erich's cell)
