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Members of the Summit Neighborhood Community Garden built their garden beds at the Summit Avenue Playground on Saturday, April 8th.  Workers broke into teams to build the beds and line them with landscape cloth.  Two of the raised beds are double height, to accommodate gardeners with limited mobility.  The garden will be completed over theContinue reading “Build Day 4/8/2017”

Does anyone need to buy some plants to get your garden plot started this year? Michael Bradlee is one of the newest members at Summit Neighborhood Community Garden (SNCG), but he has a lot of gardening experience. He grows his own Vegetables and Herbs at Frey Gardens (next to Frey Florist and Greenhouse), where heContinue reading “Plants from Michael Bradlee at Frey Gardens”

On Sunday March 25, 2017, the building committee installed the green fence and re-measured bed and shed areas. The green coated wire fence was modeled after the Brown Street community garden (see photo below), with the wire fencing attached to the inside of the wood rail fence to keep all the hammered fasteners and anyContinue reading “Installing Green Fence and Measuring”

2017 Neighborhood Urban Agriculture Kick-off at the Sessions St Community Garden! Hello East Side Gardeners, We hope you will join us at the Sessions Street Community Garden for the Neighborhood Urban Agriculture Kick-off on Saturday, April 8th from 11am-1pm (raindate Sunday, April 9th). Bring your SCLT membership card or sign up at the event ifContinue reading “Neighborhood Urban Agriculture Kick-off”

All-Gardener meeting Monday, February 13th at 7:00 PM at Summit Commons 99 Hillside Ave, in the Dining Room We’ll talk about: – Garden bed allocation; – Scheduling garden bed build days (we’re looking ahead to the weekends of April 8 & 9; 15 & 16); – Governance document amendment; – Committee formation to address: GardenContinue reading “All-Gardener meeting Feb 13 2017”

Thanks to Annalisse Booth for taking photos of the wooden fence building in 2016.

The long-awaited plots in the community garden in the Summit Avenue city park finally have real people dedicated to bringing them to fruition. At a public meeting Monday, Jan. 10 at Summit Commons, 99 Hillside Ave., bylaws were adopted, a governing board was elected and people who wanted plots received their allocations. There were aContinue reading “The plots thicken at community gardens with selection of board and gardeners”