All posts in the topic Local Food Matters-Comunity Garden Update (Short link)
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- There are 5 posts — by 4 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by Julie Olague at Jul 28 20:49 UTC
Great news and green things abound!
The Local Food Matters Community Garden is thriving!
To date we have 9 active participants growing corn, beans, bolitas, squash (all
kinds), tomatoes, peas, okra, kale, mustard and melons. Please forgive any
oversight if I missed anything; we have been working fast and furiously to take
advantage of the growing season!
We are looking for input to construct a winter greenhouse/cold frames to keep
our LFM project flourishing throughout the year.
Suggestions and input are ALWAYS appreciated--stop by or give a call to Bob
454-9123 or leave me a message at 515-5365.
Peace and Blessings,
> Great news and green things abound!
>
> The Local Food Matters Community Garden is thriving!
> To date we have 9 active participants growing corn, beans, bolitas,
> squash (all kinds), tomatoes, peas, okra, kale, mustard and melons.
> Please forgive any oversight if I missed anything; we have been
> working fast and furiously to take advantage of the growing season!
>
> We are looking for input to construct a winter greenhouse/cold
> frames to keep our LFM project flourishing throughout the year.
>
> Suggestions and input are ALWAYS appreciated--stop by or give a call
> to Bob 454-9123 or leave me a message at 515-5365.
>
> Peace and Blessings,
>
> Julie
If there is a surplus, will it come to the Farmers' Market? I have a
garden in my back yard, but it is only beans and tomatoes.
Jo Rita Jordan
Julie Olague wrote:
> We are looking for input to construct a winter greenhouse/cold frames to keep
our LFM project flourishing throughout the year.
FWIW, Kale, collards, parsnips and some other root vegetables can
overwinter without a cold frame or greenhouse. It's an alternative worth
keeping in mind.
Howdy all,
For anyone that is interested:
Here's some info on building hoop houses and other cold season extenders.
New Mexico State University web site:
www.cahe.*nmsu*.edu/pubs/_circulars/CR-606.pdf
Also a great resource for building cold frames/hoop houses and growing cold
season crops is the book Four-Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman.
I can loan the book if anyone wants to borrow it.
Also keep in mind if you build with PVC pipe do not use greenhouse grade
plastic. Instead use contractors grade plastic, like from Home Depot. The
reason being is that the higher grade greenhouse plastic reacts with the PVC
causing a chemical reaction and degradation which means your much more
expensive, 3 year plastic, will be only good for one year.
Also, I think that galvanized conduit is a much better choice for the long
term and the health of the environment than PVC. Neither is perfect by any
means....but PVC leaching into a vegetable garden cannot be a good thing.
Any way, everyone has a different way of approaching these designs and
constructions and I believe that you too can adapt a design to fit your own
needs. Just try it out and I guarantee you will succeed. One word of
advice: anchor your structures to the ground somehow....we used a couple
methods and the best we found was using a couple ropes to criss-cross the
structure with stakes into the ground.
Good luck
jenn hart-mann
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Julie Olague <<email obscured>>
wrote:
Local Food Matters will be meeting on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 6pm at the
Community Garden (Taos @ Church Streets--Miguel and Georgina Angel's home).
Naomi has done some fund finding, she will share this and ask for input at the
meeting.
Miguel has generously extended the use of Casa de Cultura's contacts to LFM!
We have another two members added to our growing garden, bringing the total to
11 plus!
Jo Rita, no garden is too small, for sure, I'm not clear on what will happen
with surplus, but please come to the meeting so that we CAN discuss the
overages...we've been so caught up planning and planting, we didn't think about
TOO MUCH! Good point!
Thanks for all the great info, Jenn, I just finished browsing the hoop-house
construction guide, fabulous tips as well as incorporating your experience and
insight, we have a tremendous knowledge base right here--what a blessing this
community is!
Lee, if you can make the meeting it would benefit many of us that are either
using the garden or our own back yards.
(Maybe a little article in the Green section, hint, hint...)
LFM is for everyone, not exclusive to the community gardeners.
Keeping our community local and sustainable is the motivation behind LFM as
well as enriching the community by engaging our citizens and youth in hands-on
healthy activities.
Hope to see you all there, any questions...concerns, idle chatter..., call Bob
454-9123 or Julie (after 8pm 575-421-8936)
Peace and blessings,
Julie
P.S. If you haven't read Pat's submission, please be sure to check it out--
FYI...UNM does have a department of Sustainability!~