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We're An Organic Garden
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
We're An Organic Garden
Please do not bring fertilizers, etc. into the garden unless they are organic.
Check around - there are many organic items available.
Come Grow With Us!
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
We're An Organic Garden
Our 2020 season membership agreement is available. All beds are filled, but email Sandie, membership director, for info on how you can still garden with us: Sandie5740@gmail.com
You can also be put on our 2021 wait list.
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
All members volunteer at least 6 hours outside their own bed. See list below for helpful tasks. Look around, see what needs doing & do it!
Please record volunteer hours in the log book located in the shed: if book not available, email info to Ruthe.heimel@gmail.com
Thursdays = Harvest Days
Thursdays = Harvest Days
We All Help: 6 Volunteer Hours
From mid June - mid September join us from 8-9 am to harvest & pack fresh food for the Whitefish North Valley food bank. Can't make a harvest? We welcome your help anytime in tending our 6 food bank beds. Email Wendy for info: Caraboo728@gmail.com
Seed Sharing
Thursdays = Harvest Days
Give & Take Table
Have extra seeds? Leave them here.
Need seeds? Take some here.
The seed sharing box is in the shed.
Give & Take Table
Thursdays = Harvest Days
Give & Take Table
Members leave garden items in good condition or extra plants they don't need. NOTE: it gets hot & dry on this table, so
regularly water any plants you leave!
Members take items they need.
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
- Weed an area & add chips where needed
- Weed / water herb-flower-asparagus-berry beds
- Make sure all hoses are turned off when not in use
- Use trimmer around exterior perimeter of deer fence
Use Our Compost Bins
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
Grow our compost! Bring your kitchen vegetable scraps and only put in bins with an "OPEN" sign
NO meat or dairy products in compost bins
Add To Our Leaf Pile
A Few Ways To Help In The Garden
Add To Our Leaf Pile
Empty your leaf bags - from untreated lawns only - onto our leaf pile
next to the compost bins.
This pile will eventually be leaf mold for our raised beds.
Gardening info
What to plant & when
Garden.org has info on planting dates for our zone.
Organic gardening site
A Way to Garden has lots of gardening and using your harvest info