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…
On April 28th Len Booth led a work party to install the 20 new raised beds. It was a lovely morning. The group put down cardboard as a weed barrier, placed and secured the beds, filled them with organic compost, and shoveled wood shavings in the aisles. Four apple trees were planted in the center.…
It was a glorious, sunny day for St. Mark’s celebration of Earth Day. Approximately a dozen Sunday School children and adults gathered in the St. Mark Community Garden on Sunday, April 22, to plant a herb garden. The children enjoyed smelling the fragrant herb leaves and then digging holes to plant them. Without question, the most…
Would you ever think 20 rows of potatoes could be planted in 33 minutes? Well, on Saturday, April 14, St Mark’s Potato Patch Planters set this record! Three major factors contributed to the success of the event – preparation, attendance and a wonderful breakfast spread! Preparation included plowing the land; securing the planter potatoes from…
April 22 is Earth Day. Sunday School children at St. Mark Lutheran Church will celebrate Earth Day this year by planting plant starts and seeds for a variety of herbs. The herb garden will be in a 8’ x’8’ raised bed that is part of St. Mark’s Community Garden. A three-quarters wine barrel has recently…
Please join us Sunday April 1st, after the 11:00am service, for a potluck lunch followed by the planting of the peas for the Thurston County Food Bank. The weather has certainly not seemed spring-like YET, but the peas like the cooler weather and we plan to plant 4 rows of Oregon Sugar Pod peas. Also,…
St. Mark Community Garden has garden plots available for community members that would like to grow their own vegetables. The raised beds are 8 feet by 8 feet or 8 feet by 3 feet. For those folks that have difficulty bending over, a few plots are 3 feet high. The beds have organic compost, and…