More Summer News...

The garden was alive with many activities this summer.  

On Saturday, July 21,The Emerson Avenue Garden Club hosted a yard sale to fund raise for building the community garden beds.  Thanks for all of you who came and supported it.  It was a great success.  

 

On Saturday, July 28,  Steve Hofvendahl from Tree People and  Master Gardener Herb Machelder gave a talk on fruit tree care and walked us through what was happening with the trees in our garden.

Meanwhile, Family Gardening continued.  The Garden Family included Adrienne Turner, Greg and Beth Scott and sons, Noah and Colby, Tom Walker, Tiffany Thomas and daughter Yasmine Pemberton, Mark Gauthier and wife Cleo and daughter Presley and Ow Teacher, Paula Cohen.  We ended the summer with a big sign making day so that OW students could "read" the garden and be able to identify what is growing when they return to school.

Then we celebrated the garden's bounty with a Harvest Lunch.

                                                   

Meanwhile, Michael Ferro, OW 7th grader discovered the Little Free Library movement and pitched an idea to the Emerson Avenue Community Garden Club to build one for the garden.  Community member and public artist, Tom Walker joined Michael in a local workshop and together they built the first ever Little Free Library at OW.  It should be installed soon.

Learn more about Little Free Libraries here: http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/