Community Garden Basil Festival

Come and enjoy the Basil Festival at the St. Agnes Gardens, behind St. Agnes Church. The date is Saturday, August 22 and it starts at 10 and runs until 6.
There are no parking or entrance fees.

The address is 2364 W. Mound St. There will be basil products offered for sale, along with several craft tables. Almost on a half hour basis there will be free garden events or programs to choose from. These include herbal healing, entomology, butterflies, composting, worm composting, grafting, bees, basil tastings, pesto making demos., and garden scavenger hunts.

We have three garden sections to visit, the Head Start Garden, the Neighborhood Kid's Garden, and the main garden area.

The Fire Safety House, garden craft tables, face painting, bounce house, and snow cones, popcorn, and cotton candy will be provided free of charge to all children who attend.

Thanks so much,
Marilyn Wilson
St. Agnes Gardens

David Howard

On Monday, April 27, at 6 p.m. we will be hosting the former head gardener of Prince Charles' home and farm, David Howard. He will give a lecture at the Ohio 4-H Center, and the proceeds will benefit the programs and operations of the GRHG.

The cost to attend the lecture is $50, but we have been given a special opportunity to attend at a reduced rate for students and volunteers. Students can attend for $10, and Master Gardeners and Chadwick Volunteers can attend for $25.

More information on this lecture and others are available at http://www.friendsohiogrhg.eventbrite.com/.

Earth Day 2009

Volunteer for one of the Worksites and then come out the next day to Celebrate at Goodale Park. For more info check out : www.picturethis09.org.

Four Seasons City Farm Freedom Festival

Hello All,

Four Seasons City Farm would like to invite you and your friends to join us this Saturday October 11th, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm for the Four Seasons City Farm Freedom Festival: A Harvest Celebration. The festival will take place at our largest community garden, The Garden of New Freedom, located at the intersection of Mound Street and Carpenter Street. This year's festivities will include a delicious lunch provided local Columbus restaurants; performances by local musicians; crafts, games, and pumpkins for kids; and more.
Each year we hold a harvest festival in order to celebrate the close of the growing season, thank garden volunteers, and provide an opportunity for the community to come together. We hope that community will include not only our local neighbors, but also members of the Columbus gardening and service community. In fact, if your organization or gardening group interested in sharing information about your work, we invite you to do so by bringing handouts or setting up an information booth.

In close, we hope that you will join us this Saturday, and we look forward to meeting and sharing with you. If you have any questions about the festival or Four Seasons, or if you would like to participate by volunteering or setting up a booth, please contact me as soon as possible at the email below. Thank you for your time and for the great work that you do!


Happy Harvesting!

Lindsey Watson
Four Seasons City Farm Community Outreach
lwatsonster@gmail.com

Partners to take part in 'carrot caravan'

A tour of three community gardens in Columbus will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday. Dubbed the "carrot caravan," the tour is part of the Three Sisters Community Garden Partnership, a collaboration of three community gardens: the Native American Indian Center Community Garden, the Horn of Africa Community Garden and the East 5th Avenue Urban Women's Community Garden.

Members host monthly potluck dinners and discuss ideas, needs and objectives.
Three Sisters Community Garden Partnership received a grant this summer for garden enhancement and expansion from Yes To Carrots.

Yes To Carrots is an Israel company that produces natural skin and hair-care products that combine anti-oxidants from organic fruits and vegetables with 26 minerals harvested from Israel's Dead Sea.

The "carrot caravan" is free, but attendees must provide their own transportation between gardens.

The tour will begin at 9 a.m. at the Horn of Africa Community Garden, 2154 Eddystone Ave., and continue to the East 5th Avenue garden, 3025 E. 5th Ave., and finish at the Native American Garden, 67 E. Innis Ave. tferan@dispatch.com

Bill

http://www.ohiopawpawfest.com

I just found out about this festival when we took our trip to Companion Plants. I've heard from many people that it's a great Ohio festival! We're making the road trip, so stay tuned for the full report! What is a Paw Paw you ask?

"The North American native pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a temperate tree fruit in the mostly tropical custard apple family, Annonaceae. Pawpaw is also a common name for papaya (Carica papaya), a tropical fruit in the family Caricaceae. The two fruits are very different from each other, but some pawpaws do have a papaya-like flavor. For further description of pawpaw, see http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/default.htm."

Millersport Corn Festival August 27-30th

When I was a little girl our family went to this festival every year. There is nothing better than sweet Ohio corn, salted and covered in butter. There's more than corn! Parades, beautiful Corn Queens, tractor pulls and I am intrigued by this one..."Outhouse Pulls", yikes! Check out their site and put it on your calendar. This would be a great festival to support our local farmers and have a fine time while you do it. I seem to forget about it every year---so this summer I am determined to not miss it!

www.sweetcornfest.com

What would you like to learn?

Please join us at the
Community Gardening
Curriculum Open House
July 16, 6-8 pm
at Franklin Park Conservatory
We are in the process of developing
the curriculum of classes we will offer
through Franklin Park Conservatory’s
Community Garden Campus.
We’d like to learn more about what kinds of
classes you might like to take, so that we can
better serve our community.
Here are potential class categories, and we look forward
to creating more classes based on your ideas:
Horticulture
School Gardens
Nutrition & Wellness
Community Gardening Leadership
Sustainability Practices
Can’t attend?
Contact us at education@fpconservatory.org

You are invited!

Planting Partnerships Potluck

June 19, 2008 6:00 P.M.
@
East Fifth Avenue Community Urban Garden
3025 E. 5th Ave.

· Come see the latest “growing’s on” with our Community Gardening efforts. Learn and discuss seeds, plants, funding, volunteers, new and needy projects. If you are new to the group just bring a dish to share, your hunger for help and your curiosity for community.
· For Directions or More Information Please Contact Nicholas J. Ard
917-1018
nard@chninc.org