We are blessed this year with many girl scout troops, community and church plot holders that have adopted a row to weed. There are MANY weeds around the potatoes that need to be removed before they get BIG and take water away from the potatoes. Below are three pictures which show potato plants. This is…
A Place of Grace
Community Garden (Page 5)
This Sunday, May 5th, the 2013 St. Mark Community Garden and new garden sign will be blessed. Please join us in the garden between services at 10am. The weather is supposed to be very beautiful and we will have chairs set up in the garden area. John Martin will have his guitar, Pastors Eric and…
Please join us for our third annual Food Bank potato planting at the St. Mark Community Garden. We have 2000 seed potatoes to plant which will yield over two tons of potatoes to the hungry of Thurston County. Come at 9am dressed for garden work, enjoy some continental breakfast, and plant potatoes with your neighbors!…
It’s gardening time! Already?!? 2012 marks the fourth growing season for the St. Mark Community Garden. If you would like to garden with us please download the Application Form and the Garden Guidelines from the Community Garden Web page. You can find this by clicking on the scrolling banner picture of the garden, or look…
Saturday September 22nd about 70 people came to the Community Garden armed with shovels and buckets and 3 1/2 hours later there were 3200 pounds of potatoes out of the ground and on their way to the hungry of Thurston County. It was a wonderful day with no rain and perfect temperature for outdoor work.…
We are excited about our Potato Harvest this Saturday and want to invite everyone AND their friends to join us at St. Mark Community Garden. The garden is located behind the church at 2109 College St. SE in Lacey. We are located directly across the street from Mountain View Elementary school. Please bring a shovel…
The St. Mark Community Garden is lush and overgrowing its beds! Every Wednesday night volunteers have been gleaning ripe vegetables from most of the beds. We have already harvested hundreds of pounds of produce which Pam C. has taken to the Thurston County Food Bank each Thursday morning. This year we have been helped by…
There is a very positive article about the St Mark Community Garden in The Olympian. Check out the St Mark Community Garden Article on The Olympian’s website. Be sure to read the article through to the end; most of the information about the Community Garden is at the end of the article.
Come out and check out the garden. Even with the mild and wet weather it is looking just beautiful. Brent and Kathy Chapman donated the arbor which is now the centerpiece of the garden. There are also 4 blueberry plants and 4 apple trees. The potatoes look unbelievably healthy and the snow peas are struggling…
The potatoes are growing like crazy and it is already time to hill many of them. If you have adopted a row, or even if you haven’t and have a bit of gardening time and energy this week, please take your hoe and hill some potatoes!!! This picture is the potato patch last year AFTER…