June 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 June 7, 11-12: Garden meeting.
- Sunday June 7, 12-2: Garden workday.
- Saturday June 13, 12-5: Holi Celebration. An Indian festival of colors and food to welcome spring. Organized by garden member Yash.
- Sunday June 21, 11-12: Garden meeting.
- Sunday June 21, 12-2: Garden workday.
- Saturday June 27, 3pm-4:30pm: Suor Angelica performance. Experience the passion, beauty, and heartbreak of Suor Angelica brought vividly to life by The Opera Collective—New York City’s “people’s opera,” dedicated to making this timeless art form accessible, intimate, and deeply human.
- Sunday June 28, 3pm-4:30pm: Suor Angelica performance.
- Wednesday July 1: Artist residency application deadline. A three-month residency to develop work within our creative and community-centered environment. The artist will receive a $500 stipend for their art materials and/or supplies for their programs. Apply here.
Some things we worked on last month
- Installing a shop sink for a new woodworking and textile repair workshop
- Training a coral honeysuckle vine on the pond fence
- Weeding plants from the mulch path to our Little Free Library
- Repairing an underground hose in our water system
At the Garden
The cardinal flower and bottlebrush buckeye are in bloom! Both have striking tubular flowers, which are suited for feeding (and pollination by) hummingbirds, butterflies, and long-tongued bees. Hummingbirds are also said to prefer red flowers. This might be because bees don't see the color red very well, so hummingbirds might choose to get nectar from flowers that haven't been visited by bees.
See you at the garden, Catherine