Hey everyone! Our garden is getting greener this Saturday (March 24th)… we are putting together our new greenhouse! We will have a workday in the garden from 10am – 12pm, and one of the projects will be working on the greenhouse. We’ll have other stuff to do too, so come for the full two hours or just a little while, get to know your neighbors, enjoy this lovely spring, and maybe learn a thing or two about gardening!
We had a GREAT day in the garden this weekend! Thank you to all who participated. We had a wonderful group who came out to learn about water conservation and to take home a water barrel – thank you Bonny and Upper Chattahoochee River Keepers! Then we worked on puppets to act out the Water Cycle (thank you Damon!)… while some strong guys planted the Paw Paw trees from Trees Atlanta!
thanks again 🙂 be on the lookout for details of our next event.. it’s always a good day in the garden 🙂
Hey friends of East Lake Community Learning Garden!
Remember to register for our rain barrel workshop with the Upper Chattahoochee River Keepers – $40 = your very own barrel (a re-purposed Coca Cola syrup barrel), the kit and guidance to change it into a rain barrel, a one year membership with the Upper Chattahoochee River Keepers, and a wealth of info about water conservation and why it’s critical for our community. Click here to register!
And of course, yummies and coffee from East Lake’s My Coffee Shop – Bring Your Own Mug!
If you already have a rain barrel, then just join us at 11am for more ‘green’ garden activities – including the return of Damon the puppet master! He will be guiding the kids through a project that will teach them about the water cycle – amazing! You don’t want to miss it.
Next Saturday, March 10th, 10am Rain Barrel Workshop, 11am activities for all, especially the kids 🙂 see you there!
You thought goat puppets were cool? Well, they were! But wait and see what we can do with the water cycle!!
Hey East Lake Community Learning Garden! We are definitely going to be green for March, kicking off with a Rain Barrel Workshop with Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers on Saturday March 10th at 10am! There are a limited number of barrels available, so register soon! $40 includes your barrel, kit and loads of info regarding water conservation.
We will also have refreshments and other projects and activities around the garden. If you already have a rain barrel, and just want to join us for a Saturday in the garden, feel free to come around 11 to plant and say hello to our sweet sheep 🙂
Register for the Rain Barrel Workshop here! (be sure and choose Mar 10 (Sat) for your workshop date).
UCR’s Rain Barrel Program kills two birds with one stone! Thanks to a partnership with Coca-Cola, UCR re-purposes donated 60-gallon syrup drums from the Atlanta-based beverage company and teaches workshop participants how they can convert them into rain harvesting containers. Our rain barrel design requires no over flow or worries about mosquitoes, so the collection in the barrel is easy and painless.
Headwaters Outreach Manager Bonny Putney, who is certified in rain water collection, hosts a series of rain barrel workshops over the course of the year. The $40 fee not only includes a rain barrel, installation kit and instructions, but also is good for a one-year UCR membership. Register here.
Hey East Lake! Thanks to those of you who joined us for a chilly but wonderful morning in the garden this past Saturday (check out our updated pics!). A huge thanks to the Atlanta Community Food Bank and the kids from St. Luke’s who worked hard helping us move rocks out of the way, and shoveling our compost pile.
Save the Date – March 10th @ 10am we will have a Rain Barrel workshop with Bonny from the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers! A link will be posted here soon so you can reserve your spot in the workshop… it’s $40 per barrel, and you will leave with a wealth of knowledge on the whys and hows of water conservation as well as your very own rain barrel with an easy to use installation kit to take home.
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Come meet the sheep THIS Saturday (Feb. 11th!) when you join us to “Plant Love” from 10am – 12pm… hot cocoa and coffee from My Coffee Shop (bring your own mug!), fun newspaper planter pots for the kids, and planting red in our gardens… see you there!
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 7th 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 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:
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!
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