This Saturday, April 11, come to a free workshop on composting starting at 10 a.m. at the St. Joseph garden.
The Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture will show you how to manage backyard compost piles for your home and garden. Come see some tricks of the trade, and learn how to optimize your efforts to yield high quality soil amendments!
Gardeners are advised to cover up plants in the ground and take potted plants and seedlings inside Sunday night through Monday night. Frost and possibly even a hard freeze are in the forecast! http://www.kmiz.com/weather
The Columbia Farmer’s Market and MU Extension are hosting an afternoon of free presentations about local food production this Saturday, April 4, 1-4 pm at the Unity Center. Get more information and read about all the great speakers and sessions.
A limited quantity of cool season transplants (broccoli, red and green cabbage, lettuce and parsley) will be available to community gardeners this weekend. You have until this Friday, March 27 to tell your garden leader how many you could use!
(Thanks so much to Jenny Grabner and Heartland Family Nursery for growing seedlings this year!)
Broadway Christian Church gardeners will meet this Saturday, March 28 at 11 am in the church’s fellowship hall. Contact Don Day if you want to garden there, but cannot attend.
The Circus Lyon garden has arranged the following two workshops. All community gardeners are welcome to attend.
Alice Havard will talk on Saturday March 28 at 10 am at the Circus Lyon Garden for about a half hour on Succession Planting and Companion Planting. The Circus Lyon Garden is located 1 block south of the cross walk at Jefferson Jr. High School.
On Saturday April 11, Adam Saunders will talk at 10 am at the St. Joseph garden on Composting. The St. Joseph garden is located 2 blocks north of Broadway and 1 block west of College Ave.
Read about the Benton-Stephens Garden in this Missourian article.
Community Gardening Kick-Off
Sunday, February 22, 2-4 p.m., Columbia Public Library, Friends Room
This is the best opportunity to find out about community gardens in your neighborhood, meet garden leaders and other gardeners and sign up for a plot of your own. Newcomers are welcome. If you’ve thought of starting a garden in your neighborhood this is also the time to get information about how to do so.