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Community Gardening–Come start!!

Hey everyone!!

Many gardeners have begun to work in their plots and they’re lookin’ GREAT!!  Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile..I’ve been at the garden lots! 🙂

Here’s some pictures from about a week ago (so much has changed since!).

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The fence is complete–the gate is a little difficult to get open.  We’ll try to fix it soon!

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Ryan family plot–lookin’ good! 🙂

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Reiter family plot–the very first one planted! 🙂

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Poor Jodie Frey’s (and friends!) plot–two groundhog holes, but they haven’t come back yet!

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First row of plots.

And a couple students and me started planting the large 1-acre plot last Tuesday.  Here’s some pictures from that day..

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The FIRST seeds. 🙂  It was some yellow sweet corn.

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Pooja Shah and Scott Stinner workin’ hard!

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And we worked REALLY hard! 🙂

Anyways…feel free to get started out there!  I’m not sure what the key situation is for the parking area.  If you haven’t received it yet, you should be getting one soon! The water situation is still under-construction, but will hopefully be done soon!  Sounds like there’s supposed to be rain in the next couple weeks too! Phew!

Have a great holiday weekend!!

Jenn

Saturday Mornin’ Gardening

Hey everybody,

We got a LOT of work done today.  All the fence posts are in, we cut them to be about even height (~7 foot), and hung wire around the top.

We had a lot of enthusiatic help from students, faculty and staff including John Wilson, Cliff Reiter, Annette Diorio, Art Kney and his daughter Elise, LEAP/SEES students: Scott Stinner, Britta Moore, Tom Golazewski, Paul Creme, and Laura Bochner (and it was her 21st birthday!!)

We’ve still gotta: put up the fencing with fence staples and attach it to the wire at the top with zip ties.  I think we’re planning on working on Friday morning to finish it up.  Let me know if you can come!!

Thanks to everyone for coming out and helping today!!

And THANK YOU to Derek Smith for the yummy snacks..fruit and cookies from the farmers market! 🙂

Jenn

Fence Building–Again this Saturday!

Hey everyone!!

We had a building day on Saturday thanks for the help from LEAP, the Music Appreciation floor, and some great faculty and staff including John Wilson, Andy Smith, Dave Brandes, and Annette Diorio for all the help!  We got about half of the fence posts up, so we’re planning on having another building day this coming Saturday, May 9th at 7AM.

Thanks to Mr. Jim Krivoski for buying doughnuts! 😀

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These fence posts are native black locust trees from Prof. John Wilson’s farm.

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We finished one side and most of the other.   This is where the gate is going to be located.

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Professor Wilson, Sean Murphy, Scott Stinner working on the corner.  In the back: Annette Diorio, Britta Moore, and little Jack working on putting up some posts.

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Paul Creme, Zeus Wu, and Prof. Andy Smith digging a hole.

Saturday Building Day!!

Hey everybody!

It’s official, Saturday morning, May 2nd at 9AM: LEAP, SEES, Music Appreciation Floor, Phi Psi, and lots of faculty and staff and families will be coming together to put up our fence posts, put up the deer fence, mark off the community plots, and perhaps do some weeding and other site prep.
If you’d like to come help out, come to Metzgar Sat. morning or send me an email for more info: bellj@lafayette.edu!

Thanks and hope to see ya there!

Jenn

Site Preparation and such

Hey everyone,

Today Prof. Brandes and I went out to Metzgar bright and early to mark the location of the perimeter fence posts.  The campus plant operation staff are going to dig the holes for us hopefully very soon.  After we finished, I stayed for a couple hours to start pulling some weeds.  Unfortunately they’re really starting to grow already.

If everything goes smoothly this week, we hope to have a fence-building day on this Saturday, May 2nd at 9AM.  If you’d like to come help, send me an email at bellj@lafayette.edu.

If we have a lot of people and it goes quickly, we’ll mark the community plots, pull some weeds, and start some planting too! 🙂

Jenn