Urban Treehouse video about our garden!

Thanks, Urban Treehouse!  http://www.urbantreehouse.tv/#/down-with-the-dirt/

Here's their facebook page if you want to learn more:  https://www.facebook.com/urbantreehouseseries

Thank you Rotary Club of Glendale!

Big thanks to the Rotary Club of Glendale who came out recently to join some of our gardeners to fix plots, weed and move hay mulch around.  Here they are in our Geneva garden.

We appreciate your continuing support!

Sierra Club invitation to talk about renewable energy in Glendale

Hey everyone, here's a Sierra Club invitation for anyone who's interested in participating in Glendale and Burbank's renewable energy future! 

This meeting is coming up on Thursday, March 27 from 6-8pm in the Glendale Arts community room at 116 West California Avenue in Glendale.

More info: Glendale and Burbank receive a significant portion of their energy from a coal fired power plant in Utah, along with LA and Pasadena. With LA's coal divestment, the participating cities must decide how to replace that coal. We need to push elected officials to pursue aggressive energy efficiency and renewable energy goals. Let's pave the way forward to a clean energy economy. 

For questions, contact Kiersten Iwai at kiersten.iwai@sierraclub.org or at (415) 535-9177

Edible Flowers!

Here's a list of edible flowers (some are hazardous! Be careful!)

First photo is from an unidentified photographer, second is by Marlo Meredith.

Work day this Sunday!

Workday + workshop coming this Sunday! Workday 9:30 - 11:30 at Geneva, workshop right afterward.

October Newsletter

Garden work day this Saturday Sept 21!

September Newsletter

Demonstrating Gardens

Let's think about ways to demonstrate low water use in awesome and appealing gardens.  We have three demo gardens attached to our community gardens and if you have thoughts about directions for redoing them we're listening.  This picture is an area on Brand blvd near the Monterey sites.

August Newsletter!

Great workday, everyone who contributed!

Great job, gardeners of the July 2013 workday:  Julia Orr (not pictured), Elena Caballero, Shane Mulholland, Dale Jaques, Melissa Wall, Karen Gee, Bronwen Mauldin, Lucy Wang, Tom Halpern, Alex Knight, and Jean Waked!

They weeded Geneva, they weeded West

and the gardens are better because of them.   

Workday coming this Sunday!

July newsletter

Hose holders!

Bam!  They exist!

 That's because Martin (west) bravely drilled, measured
and screwed together the holders in crazy heat

and Lyndsey (west), Julia (east), Paul (west) and Mike

(east) showed up at the garden to do the big job of painting

and planting them. This one has a duck on it.

In over 100 degree heat our group spent a few hours 

planting these little gems. Here are three of the super 

Hoover High Key Club teens who helped us out 

the whole time. They helped us because former 

gardener Sue Jekarl alerted them about the 

volunteer opportunity -- she's a wonder.

 I think this was the second holder we got planted.

Yea for Hoover Key Club!

Then heatstroke was approaching so we headed to 

Geneva for some quick and delightful soaking. 

That was heaven.

And look!  11 cute hose holders installed!  

Thank you so much to everyone who helped:  

Martin, Julia, Mike, Linus, Paul, Joan, Lindsey, 

Sue, the Hoover Key Club and Home Depot!

Update:  Geneva's hose holders are in!  Whoo hoo!

Hose holder workday preparation in process

Here's Martin from garden west picking out only the best buckets for our snazz new hose holders.  Also shown is Home Depot's Addie who gave us a great deal, making it possible to get some other needed implements!  Thank you Addie!

Hose holder workday this Saturday, June 29th, starting in the East garden and moving to the others afterward.  Hope to see you there!

Composting guide!

New Google Group! It's up!

Hey gardeners!  All current members of the Monterey Eco Community community are invited to our new google group!  Ask questions!  Give answers!  Join discussions!  It's all happening, email Hannah if you haven't received an invitation yet.

Geneva Garden Gracefully Glides On

The newest of the Monterey gardens is Geneva and 

it's looking terrific.

Like for instance Janet's spectacular cabbage

and Alek's kaleidoscopic artichoke

put the sun behind Jean and Magy's chard

and you have vividness you wouldn't believe

and Elena and Rigoberto's zucchini flowers are blazing

into fruitiness

 What a gorgeous garden.  

Slowly the Vegetables - May 2013 web newsletter

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