Garden Work Day @ Crawford MS – Feb. 7th 4:00 – 6:00pm

Hey East Lake Community Gardeners!  Our friends at Crawford Middle School are having a Garden Work Day next Tuesday, Feb. 7th.  Details below:

“Crawford W. Long Middle School is having a Garden Work Day on February 7^th from 4-6 pm.  During this event we will install a fruit orchard (courtesy of the Atlanta Local Food Initiative) and a vertical gardening system (courtesy of Plastics Make it Possible).  We will also build a tool shed and complete other small garden jobs like composting, seed starting, mulching, weeding, and creating garden artwork.  We need volunteers to bring shovels, wheelbarrows, rakes, tools, and gloves.  Water and healthy snacks will be provided for the volunteers.  Please help us as we try to build a better garden for our school and the surrounding community.  We hope to see you there!”

We hope you can come out and loosen up your gardening muscles with the energetic middle schoolers 🙂  And if you can help bring tools, it’s much appreciated.  If you have any questions, let us know!

*Make sure you reserve Saturday Feb. 11th from 10am – 12pm on your calendars to come Plant Love in your East Lake Community Learning Garden!  More details coming soon…*

Thank you! and a couple of updates :)

Thank you everyone who came out and made “Plant Peace” a success!  We celebrated our peace pole, planted peas, made amazing goat puppets, and played with the goats while enjoying delicious coffee, hot chocolate, and pastries from East Lake’s My Coffee Shop.  I hope you will plan to join us for our next event on Saturday, Feb. 11th from 10am – 12pm… details to come 🙂

As we continue planning exciting events in your community learning garden, we need your feedback!  Please click the ‘Survey!‘ link above and take a few moments to answer just a few brief questions, so we can design future garden activities around your interests and schedules.

Also, plan to spend time in our sister garden, Healthy Belvedere, this weekend, a quick note from them about the time change:

Sorry Everyone – a ‘time change’ for Saturday’s workday.

12:00 noon – Saturday, January 21st.

There is a 70% chance of rain on the news today, however, that’s a couple of days away it could change.  But if it’s raining Saturday morning please stay home and we’ll see if everyone can make the next Saturday, January 28th.

Thank you much,

Celeste Beaty
Administrative Assistant

Healthy Belvedere – Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

thanks again East Lake!  See you in the garden soon 🙂

Lauren Patrus

Plant Peace THIS Saturday!

Remember to join us THIS Saturday, Jan. 14th from 10am – 12pm for “Plant Peace” @ ELCLG. We will have plenty of activities for the kids, and warm drinks for you from East Lake’s My Coffee Shop. Come help us plant peas and celebrate MLK, Jr. weekend with our own Peace Pole, declaring that we are a unified community. We’ll see you there!