The Confirmation E-mail Has Been Sent!

Hello CGC 2012 Gardeners,
for those of you who have e-mail you should have received a notification from CGC from our garden coordinators Helen Slocum and Susan Chase - the planting season will soon be upon us!

Check your inbox for the details of how to pay the rent for your garden bed, how to attend a mandatory orientation meeting, and how to help CGC raise funds for the completion of and the operation of the garden at Hamlin School!

Please contact CGC if you have any questions or concerns at communitygardencollective@gmail.com.

Thank you!
Helen and Susan

Work Day: Saturday 10/22 from 9-12

Hello!

The Community Garden needs your help!
On Saturday, October 22 from 9-12

We will be:
- Building the last of the garden beds and screwing the corners of the present beds (if you have a power drill please bring it! We need to put more screws in the corners of the beds)

- Collecting and spreading seaweed, manure, grass and leaves

- Spreading woodchips as needed

Please come for an hour, two or the whole time! We will have another work day next Saturday 10/29 from 9-12.

Thanks!
Crystal
CGC Secretary

Lisa's Fantasy Sheet Mulch Recipe

For those who missed Lisa Fernandes' fantastic "No-Dig Gardening" workshop, click here for Lisa's "magic soil" recipe. One of the things we learned at the workshop is that this recipe is very flexible, so you can use what you can find in your yard and garden to create great growing conditions for your garden next spring. Just make sure to top your layers off with the newspaper and hay layers to keep the weeds away!

Creating Our Community Garden - Ready to Plant, Spring 2012

VOTE Daily in October for CGC to win a portion of the $25,000 Better Neighbor Fund!

DAY 2 OF VOTING 
Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/TownandCountryFCU?sk=app_4949752878


Town and Country Federal Credit Union is giving away $25,000 to benefit our community in November. Anyone can vote for their favorite community groups or causes during the month of October.
CGC is one of the groups in the running for a piece of these funds!


Here is how you can help us fund and build our first organic garden:


HOW TO VOTE for the Community Garden Collective in three easy steps...

1.)  Click this link:
http://www.facebook.com/TownandCountryFCU?sk=app_4949752878

2.)  Click on the advertisement for the "BETTER NEIGHBOR FUND".  The causes are listed alphabetically. 


3.) Please find the Community Garden Collective on the list, select us and fill out the information at the bottom of the screen.

PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND VOTE EVERY DAY!
The awards will be presented in mid November.

Gardening info for the day:
"Permaculture, at its core, is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. It offers positive solutions to the problems facing the world by using ecology as the basis of organizing systems of food production, housing, technology, economics and community.

Permaculture defies one-sentence definitions. It is as rich and complex as life itself."

This information is from Portland Maine Permaculture: http://portlandmainepermaculture.wordpress.com/what-is-permaculture/

Thank you for your vote,
CGC

No-Dig Garden Bed Workshop / Permaculture Methods Sat. October 1, 8:30 a.m.

What: No-Dig Garden Bed Lecture and Workshop: Permaculture Methods (a "no dig" and organic method to create garden soil). Lecture and demonstration by permaculture expert Lisa Fernandes.

Cost: FREE!When: Saturday, October 1, 2011 starting at
8:30 am.
Where: 496 Ocean Street, South Portland Planning and Development Department - the former Hamlin School

The lecture and demonstration will teach you how to create the loam for a garden using organic materials from your home and neighborhood. 

After the lecture we are planning to have some work ready to do for the garden (i.e. tasks may include possibly spread woodchips, put wet newspapers in the beds and shovel manure into the beds). If you are able to give some of your time after the event please bring gloves, a shovel and sturdy shoes. More workers the merrier!

To RSVP please contact the CGC at communitygardencollective@gmail.com or Crystal Goodrich at 671-6393.

Finish Building Beds for the Community Garden Tuesday Sept. 9/27, 9am to 4 pm

Hello Garden Volunteers!

We still have a few beds left to build and two handicapped accessible beds. Susan Chase and a volunteer will be working on the beds on Tuesday 9/27 of this week between 9 am and 4pm. If you can make it for one or two hours to help build we would appreciate it. Come If you need more information or if you plan on coming later in the day please call Susan at 615-7840 to make sure the builders still need your help. Thank you! Crystal Goodrich, CGC Secretary