Some classrooms at Mountain View Elementary and the Thurston County Food Bank are working together on a curriculum which incorporates healthy food. St. Mark has agreed to help with this by working with them to plant and maintain their small garden. Last year we planted and harvested over 50 pounds of produce for the Thurston…
Even though the weather is rainy and soggy, the Garden Committee has been hard at work! The field has been amended with Mushroom compost, rototilled and the first planting day will be Sunday March 16th during the Sunday School Hour. Snap peas will be planted by Brent and the Sunday School kids and anyone else…
Please join us for a morning of hard work and LOTS of fun! This is the third harvest of potatoes from our garden and all are headed to the Thurston County Food Bank. We will work rain or shine and we will have a continental breakfast and lunch, thanks to our faithful kitchen coordinator…
This is the first year that corn has been grown in the St. Mark Community Garden. Gary D. asked this spring if he could try to grow some, and we told him to go ahead but warned him that the soil might not have enough nutrients. If you have watched the garden you know that…
We had a very successful work party last Saturday and the garden looks super! The potatoes are weed-free and hilled and need no more tending until harvest. The corn looks GREAT as do all the other vegetables. So far we have harvested snap peas, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, squash, onions, and now green beans. If…
All 20 rows of potatoes were hilled today, all rows were weeded, and the peas were picked. It was a beautful, sunny, warm morning, and we had a GREAT turn-out. The SMOGS were helpful on Thursday by taking care of 4 rows, and the rest got done today. Mike D. brought his brush hog and…
The potato plants have grown at least a foot over the past week and it is time to hill dirt around them. Potatoes grow above the plant roots so it is necessary to mound dirt around plants to provide a place for the potatoes to grow!! Bring your rakes, or flat blade hoes and if…
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…
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!…