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…
We are thrilled to announce that on Sunday, September 11th at 10:00am, we will have the blessing of our Clean Kids Laundry Facility for North Thurston Public Schools homeless students and their families and the dedication of our new Garden Utility Shed which will house equipment for our community garden. St, Mark donates thousands…
Please join us Saturday September 17th at 0900 for our 5th annual Potato Harvest. In a few short hours we can harvest over a ton of potatoes if many people join us. It is a really fun day – especially for the kids as they play “treasure hunt” as they find the potatoes. Kids…
The garden is fully planted and we are starting to seriously harvest almost every day. Thanks to Gary D. and his daily dedication and transportation of produce to the Thurston County Food Bank. We are at about 1000 pounds as of July 15th! We are having work parties every other Saturday: July 16, and 30,…
The Kindergartners from Mountain View Elementary that planted all the pumpkins in the Community Garden last spring got to return this year to see what they had grown! It was a sunny, crisp fall day perfect for a trip to the garden. It was GREAT fun! Five classes of eager 1st graders came for a…
Here is a slideshow including pictures taken up to July 15, 2015. It is amazing what volunteers, horse and cow manure, seeds and water can do to a patch of land! Come walk through the garden – it is very beautiful this time of year!
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…