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…
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…