Saturday June 15th there will be a home gardening boot camp put on at Cabrillo College in the Horticulture department. It will be a day filled with 28 classes taught by 20 different instructors. View the flyer here.
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It’s that time again! The coming Sunday, April 28th, is our 4th Annual Season Opening Party. The even will be from noon to 3pm and will take place in the community garden at 10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos. You can view the flyer for the event here 2013 Season Opening Event. Extracts from the UCCE Santa Clara County Master Gardener Program news letter. You are invited to visit their website for more tips and upcoming events.
Interesting link shared by Joe and Fay: Enjoy, Hello Gardeners,
We are fast approaching our gardens third spring celebration on April 22,2012.
To bring the garden to the beautiful place we all enjoyed last year, we are having 4 scheduled clean up days.
March 3 and March 10 for your personal garden area and surrounding paths.
March 24 and March 31 for a general clean up of the rest of the garden.
Please bring your own tools. Also, if you can’t make one of the clean up days, feel free to come at your convenience.
Happy Gardening,
Usually I don’t post news about Surf City Growers here at the community garden blog, but this is related and I thought you all would enjoy seeing what Linda and I work so hard to communicate to families through our gardening products. At the heart of what we do is emphasize the importance of growing your own food, and how we Americans have become so distanced from it’s source that our kids can hardly identify, let alone eat, common vegetables. Last month I submitted our My First Organics seed starting kits in the Toy Category at the Parents’ Choice Foundation. My thought was that our wonderful kits are not only educational, but perhaps also fit quite creatively in the category of a ‘toy’. As the creators of the kits, my wife and I have always quibbled over how they fit into the marketplace as a consumer product. But one thing we always agree on is that they are a fabulous hobby for the entire family to enjoy, especially when we as parents are competing with TVs, XBOXs and mobile game applications.
And here we are, recognized by “The Nation’s Oldest Nonprofit Guide to Quality Children’s Media and Toys” as a winner in the Toys and Games category! The Parents’ Choice Foundation’s founding principals were one of the main reasons why I felt that our product was a perfect fit:
So I suppose it comes as no surprise, really, that My First Organics seed starting kits are a standout when it comes to a toy that fits all of these criteria. Here is a quote from the review that sums up why Linda and I have worked so hard these last few years to bring this product to children of all ages, everywhere:
—> Read full review <— Thank you Parents’ Choice Foundation! We hope we can continue to create worthwhile, amazing products that instruct, inspire and make families inquire. Now, if only I had remembered to submit our children’s book in time as well…oh well, there’s always next year.
Trent McNair is the Co-founder of Surf City Growers, Inc. in Aptos, CA. He and his wife Linda are founding board members of the Aptos Community Garden and creators of the My First Organics seed starting hobby kits. Need some interesting and informative seasonal gardening tips? Visit BetterGardener.com BetterGardener.com is produced by the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers (CANGC), the largest nursery, floriculture, and garden retailing trade organization in California. Founded in 1911, the association shares knowledge about gardening with consumers and advocates for its industry in Congress and California’s legislature. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, California produces 22.5% of the nation’s total nursery output, making it the number one producing state. The nursery industry employs 213,000 Californians. The California Assocation of Nurseries and Garden Centers • (916) 928-3900 • info@cangc.org As the clouds have cleared, activity in the garden has increased. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed by our local paper, either. Head on over to the Santa Cruz Sentinel online to see what they have to say about our garden and how we impact our community.
Soaked in Soil – Diary of a Vegetable Garden (A dizzy blonde tracking her first attempt at a vegetable garden) is the title. Tori spins a story not just about gardening, but about her feelings surrounding the experience and the community she finds there. Topics range from planting log journal entries, “What did it cost to start my garden?”, and the life cycle of a strawberry in pictures. If you want to be immersed in the experience that our community garden has to offer, Tori has laid out the red carpet for you! An Idea That Just Keeps GrowingBy Melanie Larson Have you seen, or better yet, walked on the new path in the upper garden connecting the Aptos Community Garden with Christ Lutheran Church? Soon-to-be Eagle Scout, Alex Fischer, chose this project from many others as his final project for becoming an Eagle Scout. Please be sure to read his summary “A Path Down the Hill” describing the process. While working on the project, the scouts called it “The Path to Heaven.” That would have been a great title for his story as well. We are so grateful to Alex and his father Eagle Scout Master Fred for doing an outstanding job. In addition to the path, they put in a sitting bench, built by Norman Black and his grandson Michael, and a retaining wall and sitting area near a drinking fountain.
Some of our gardeners have received awards for their efforts in the garden. Third grader, Ava Higgins, won first, second, and third place at the Santa Cruz County Fair in September for her flower arrangements which she put together in front of the judges all by herself. She took first place in the “Up, Up, and Away” category, using some of the flowers that she grew in our very own community garden and her home garden. She grew zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, alyssum and little white flowers that have yet to be identified in her plot. We are so proud of her! Fay Levinson received second place in the Santa Cruz Sentinel photo contest in the Backyard Garden category. She took a picture of her garden in the ACG for this award. Not to be outdone, her husband, Joe Levinson, received an award for a totem that he made to decorate the garden. And these are all fist time gardeners! What a talented group we have. All of this in our first year!!!! |
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