Calling all Volunteers!! Saturday April 2nd we will plant 200 pounds of seed potatoes in the St. Mark Community Garden. This has been an annual event since 2011 but the last two years the pandemic prevented us from gathering. Last Sunday, a group of members, including some darling children, planted our four pea beds. The rain…
Gary D, our Chief Gardener, two garden interns and a handful of volunteers somehow managed to get 13,216 pounds of produce to the Thurston County Food Bank – in spite of a record breaking heat wave and drought conditions. For two years rabbits have ravaged the garden in early spring – in spite of our…
The 2019 Potato Harvest in the St. Mark Community Garden was a great success! Over 2100 pounds of delicious, organic spuds were donated to the Thurston County Food Bank. Many helpers (the most ever!) made for a very productive morning of harvesting! Thank you to members of St. Mark and the community for your assistance…
The Congre-gation is invited to a 10th Anniversary celebration, luncheon, and garden blessing for the St. Mark Community Garden June 30th immediately following the 10am Worship service. A delicious lunch prepared by the Community Garden volunteers will be served during a brief program outlining the garden’s history and evolution into one of the largest fresh…
Twenty hard-working High School students and two teachers from the Northwest Christian High School spent 120 hours of service in the St. Mark Community Garden on Wednesday April 24th. Great thanks to Michaela Winkley from the Thurston County Food Bank for directing this group to our garden. There is always a tremendous amount of…
Those involved with the St Mark Community Garden, Mountain View Elementary School, and the Thurston County Food Bank hosted author Katherine Pryor on Sept 21 to celebrate Food Literacy Month. Featured events included a reading of the book “Zora’s Zucchini”, a visit to the pumpkin patch in the St Mark Garden, and a picnic of…
Saturday September 15th was the annual potato harvest at the St. Mark Community Garden. This year we planted a new potato variety, Red Lasoda, hoping to have a better harvest – and we did!! The potatoes were large and beautiful and we harvested about 1500 pounds. We also harvested 500 pounds of pumpkins. Two…
The 2018 gardening season is beginning and here is some news you can use! Work Parties: Saturday April 7th will be our first work party for the year, and you can mark your calendar for every other Saturday morning from 9-11am. We provide the garden implements – hoes, rakes, shovels, trowels – and you apply…
The 2017 Gardening season is almost over and the garden has been absolutely beautiful this summer. We got a late start with a wet, soggy spring, and many of us volunteer gardeners did not have very high hopes for a great garden. We had to replant our peas, spinach, beets, and lettuce, and planted the…
It is now November and the St. Mark Community Garden is done producing for the year. We are grinding up corn stalks, bringing Vicki’s horse manure to enhance the soil, and tarping the central garden to hopefully kill the weeds during the winter. The garden has once again been a prolific producer of crops for…