The Olympia High School Freedom Farmers (30 of them!!) came to the St. Mark Community Garden to help us with many tasks today. Freedom Farmers is a summer program that high school kids apply for where they work on a 6 acre farm that supplies food to the school district. Many of the kids on…
The 2015 growing season at the St. Mark Community Garden has commenced. The garden is starting to look absolutely beautiful! Thanks to our new garden intern, Grace, and Haldor, the potatoes are weeded and hilled, thanks to the volunteers at our two work parties, most everything is weeded and looking wonderful. We are growing 10…
The weather could NOT have been better for the 5th annual St. Mark Community Garden Potato Planting. There was a good turnout of very able bodied gardeners and not only were the potatoes planted, the pea fencing was repaired, all the beds in the central garden were weeded, and Haldor’s dahlias were planted in the…
Please come join us tomorrow, April 18th at 9am to plant 1000 feet of potatoes for the Thurston County Food Bank. The rows are dug and we will plant them with your help. We will also do some weeding in the larger garden, repair some pea fencing, and spiff up the raspberries. Continental breakfast and…
Pea Planting St.Mark Community Garden had a group of Sunday School children planting peas with a bit of help from Haldor, Brent and Gail. This picture is of two eager and helpful boys who helped out today. Four 100 foot rows of peas were planted after the beds were amended with compost and weeded. We…
The Good Lord blessed us with a most glorious day for this event! Our chefs were all winners: David (retired Pastor David I.) for his salmon, John (musician and architect) for his hamburger sliders, and Lloyd (The Popular Schneider) won the People’s Choice award by most impressing the attendees while cooking! Sliders, salmon, and pie…
On Saturday September 13th, 4 St. Mark gentlemen – David N., Lloyd S., John M., and Ron W – will try to outdo each other with their barbecued culinary creations. Based loosely on the show, “Chopped”, they will get baskets filled with surprise ingredients they need to include in their barbecue dish. Judges from the…
Many thanks to the hard-working students in the Olympia High School Bear-GRuB program! They harvested all this beautiful produce today in the St. Mark Community Garden!
Please enjoy a slideshow of the St. Mark Community Garden as of July 1, 2014. It is really beautiful AND very productive. Join us Wednesday evenings at 5:30pm for our weekly gleaning party. We pick what is ripe from the Food Bank garden and from the raised beds, and it is taken to the Food…
The attached picture shows the inside of our current outdoor storage facility. In addition to its small size, the building itself is in extremely poor condition. The Community Garden equipment and lawn care equipment share this small storage facility. A fundraiser for a new shed is planned for the fall and is going to be…