July Happenings
Upcoming events
All of our events are free and open to the public.
At garden meetings, you can meet other garden members, learn how to get involved, and become a member. At garden workdays, all are welcome, no experience necessary. Tasks include pruning, weeding, composting, and repairs.
- Sunday July 5, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday July 5, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Wednesday July 8, 5pm-8pm: Community Mending Night: Clothes & Wooden Furniture. Bring your clothes or textiles or wooden furniture in need of repair. We'll have hand sewing tools, sewing machines, mending books, woodworking tools and supplies. Learn how to perform repairs together! Rainy weather: at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (155 Ave C).
- Friday July 17, 4pm-7pm: MXL Community Knitting. All are welcome to join in knitting together! Meet at the gazebo. Yarn and needles are provided for free along with a knitting lesson from The Knitting Mama.
- Sunday July 19, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday July 19, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Monday July 20, 6pm-8pm: Urban ecology reading group. Bring your own book or borrow one from the Urban Ecology Library at the garden! We will read quietly for one hour, then discuss for one hour.
- Friday July 24, 4pm-7pm: MXL Community Knitting.
- Saturday July 25, 3pm-4pm: Opera Scenes Concert by Opera Collective.
Some things we worked on last month
- Repairing the back wall of our toolshed, which collapsed.
- Measuring the garden to make a map.
- Processing food scraps for our Bokashi composting system.
- Reorganizing our big sheds to make room for new woodworking tools.
- Redesigning our website.
- Rescuing an abandoned turtle found on the street.
At the Garden
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So many insects observed at the garden! A red admiral butterfly, a leafcutter bee, and fireflies. It is always nice to see evidence that the garden is supporting the local ecosystem and sustaining life of many kinds. The leafcutter bee was seen on our swamp milkweed, which has finally bloomed. Many native plants take a few years to grow a strong and resilient root system before they flower.
See you at the garden,
Catherine