Experimental College Community Garden

Anybody there?

2007-06-16T12:17:00.001-07:00

Dear gardeners, please comment if you use this blog or its links anymore - including the planting calendar links.

EC Garden Google Group!

2007-02-03T20:54:00.000-08:00

We now have our own EC Garden Google group! This is a tool that will allow for easy communication between gardeners. You can choose to be updated of any new messages by email, if you wish, which makes it it even easier.
Currently, the group is restricted to invited members - which are current gardeners or other members of the EC Garden mailing list (ecgarden@ucdavis.edu). Though this may change, for now please check your email box for your invite and post away!

The group can be accessed at this address: http://groups.google.com/group/ec-garden

Group specific email (questions, concerns) can be sent to: ec-garden@googlegroups.com

Happy grouping!!!

Blog Settings

2007-01-17T16:31:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, I set the blog settings so that only EC Garden bloggers can comment on our posts, because we were getting spammed out.

Does anyone want to administrate the EC Garden blog? Please contact ECG: 752-9118.

Experimental College Community Garden

2006-09-06T22:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody, here ara a couple of links with vegetable planting dates for the Sacramento area (thanks in part to the Solano Park Garden Association).

Vegetable Planting Calendar for Sacramento

Vegetable Gardening at a Glance - including Sacramento area planting dates

I hope these links work out, but if not, they are also listed in Links.

Wash your veggies

2006-08-14T01:56:00.000-07:00

Hello fellow gardeners,

I thought I would send this along. During the aerial anti-mosquito spraying last week, the plane veered around the Student Farm, as it was registered organic. But in doing so, its flight path was directly over the EC Garden. For everyone's information, both Pyrethrin and PBO which were the active ingredients in the spray, degrade in sunlight, most during the first day after the spray. However, it would still be a good idea to wash your veggies. On that note, you should probably be washing them anyway... unless you like manure bacteria on your food. Mmmm manure.

The research conducted during the spray showed that spiders and dragonflies were not affected by the spray, and my bees had a sum total of one visible mortality outside my hives. (My own bee experiment suggested that bee loss was minimal, although I didn't have very much data.) I don't think we should have any problems with the beneficial insects in the garden post-spray.

Whenever you wander around in the garden, off away from the cultivated areas, it might be good to keep an eye out for standing bodies of water, such as ponds, puddles, buckets, and tires. Let me or one of the garden coordinators know about ponds that need fish, or you could always pick up some fish yourself! Every acre of land that breeds mosquitoes makes future West Nile sprayings more likely.
Karl

Washington State Offers Organic Farming Degree.

2006-07-23T16:38:00.000-07:00

To read all about it, click here.

Mystery "Weeder" !

2006-06-20T00:01:00.000-07:00

An interesting thing seems to have happened today in our garden - someone has come and "weeded" some of our cover crop.

Now, we'd like to give that person the benefit of the doubt but it does seem odd that someone should enter our garden and pull up several handfuls of barley and other cover crop sprouts then neatly pile them along the margins, doesn't it?

We can only assume that our "mystery weeder" had the best intentions, like that they were trying to help out by removing some noxious weed from our garden, but nevertheless we have a couple problems with the whole thing, namely:

1. While we don't mind people coming to check out our crops - even grabbing a tomato or two - we feel as though we've been trespassed;
and
2. What was uprooted from our garden was not a weed but was in fact a crop that we intentionally planted - from seed which we paid for - that is intended as a beneficial and integral part of our garden.

We suppose that the "weeder" was looking for bermuda grass - our advice is that the mystery weeder ought to do a google search for bermuda grass so that he or she is aware of what bermuda grass looks like before trying to do anyone a favor! Actually, there are a couple of stems of bermuda grass in our garden that the mystery weeder passed over in favor of uprooting our cover crop!

Anyway, if the mystery weeder is you (or if you know the mystery weeder), here are a couple more thoughts:

1. Although we're curious, we don't need to know who you are nor do we need an apology - but please don't do any further work in our garden!
2. If you feel the need to weed, check the shed for the plot reclamation committee as they likely have suggestions for which plots need weeding - there are even several abandoned plots near ours which are in desperate need of weeding - including one which is almost entirely bermuda grass.

For reference, the plot in question, one of our three plots, is located just east of the shed on the main path and has its south end under the shade of the walnut tree. Just to avoid any potential future confusion for the mystery weeder.

Thanks,
Wesley and Ariel

community bench mosaic designs

2006-05-10T08:36:00.000-07:00

Design 1: Sun and Moon - we could do a moon on one bench and a sun on the other, or choose either the sun or the moon for one bench and then choose one of the designs below for the other bench.
Design 2: Hands and vines
Design 3: Tree
Design 4: Fractal
Design 5: Seasons - the back of each bench would be "divided" and would have a mosaic/sculpture of a seasonal plant. The actual mosaic would be a little simpler than shown above, and would probably have only one or two plants per section. If you like this design, please feel free to say which plant you would pick for each season.

Hi,
The earthen benches in the new EC garden community space are nearly finished, and they're looking great. We will be finishing the cobbing this Saturday during the Whole Earth Festival. As part of the final work, we'll be doing a mosaic on the back of each of the benches. We need your input - please help decide what design you'd like to have on our community benches!

Last week several gardeners and students came up with a number of design ideas. The top picks are above. Please comment on this blog or email cmharvilla (AT) ucdavis (dot) edu with which design(s) you like best. We can do the same design on both benches, or we can mix and match.

The mosaics will be made out of river rocks, and the cob can also be sculpted as part of the designs. When we're finished we'll have a beautiful, lasting gathering place created by the garden community. Your input is valued as we make this decision together...and of course, we hope to see you on our last building day this Saturday! *Thanks*

Extra Stuff

2006-04-23T16:29:00.000-07:00

I've got a bunch of extra sprouting potatoes (russets - 2# and reds - 2#) and some sprouting garlic. Does anybody want some?

I've left the potatoes on the table in the shady grove, just to the east of the toolshed. Take as many as you'll plant. Enjoy!

Dr. Vandana Shiva

2006-04-19T21:23:00.000-07:00

Please distribute widely:

The California Student Sustainability Coalition's

Education for Sustainable Living Program
presents

Dr. Vandana Shiva

An inspirational lecture on sustainable agriculture, and social justice

In 1993, Vandana Shiva received the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize) “… for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse” Dr. Shiva is a physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist and writer. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement in India for biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, and social rights. Vandana Shiva is also Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, she is the author of hundreds of articles and many books including: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. She is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin and she addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000.

UC Davis, 194 Chemistry
Tuesday, April 25th 6:10-8:00
Admission is FREE

Easter Egg Hunt

2006-04-08T15:53:00.000-07:00

The EC Garden is such a great place to be. I've been thinking for a while that we should do more fun stuff there. Last year, I took my family to the EC Garden during WEF to see if anything might be going on - nope. This year we have something: Finishing the Cob Benches on WEF Saturday! Other opportunities await us: Easter Egg Hunt, EarthDay/Mother's Day/WEF, Solstices/Equinoxes, Holidays, and much more.

I want to make the EC Garden a place where people want to spend their time, where people can't wait to come when vacation starts, a place that people want their families to come visit on special days.

We're counting down to the day of the Easter Egg Hunt! HELP, we need eggs! Please poke holes in the top and bottoms of eggs and blow them out so we can paint and dye them to hide for the hunt this year. If we don't get enough empty eggs, I'll have to use plastic eggs.

Gardeners, Domies, and friends of the EC Garden are blowing out eggs. We need about 100 more. Don't make me turn to the plastic industry, email us (ecgarden) to let us know how many eggs you've got for the Easter Egg Hunt.

Thanks

2006-03-22T18:38:00.000-08:00

Thanks to whomever dumped the grass over by my plot today (near the old compost piles). I had a huge wheelbarrowful of oats and, being 5 days overdue to have a baby, got tuckered out. My husband Joel and I came over in the late afternoon to tend to it, and it was gone. Thanks so much to the mystery person who took care of it.

Slugs!

2006-03-06T23:07:00.000-08:00

All I'm growing in my garden is slug fodder. Are other people having slug problems? Any clever ideas other that beer traps and Diatomaceous Earth?

Uber-Party Pictures

2006-03-04T23:31:00.000-08:00

Hello Gardeners!

Many of you attended the Uber-Work-Party on Saturday March 25, and so much got done. Many of you may have also seen me wander around taking pictures of everybody working. Can you believe I got work credit for watching other people work?! Heh, well, it only took a few minutes to snap some shots, and some editing time later, I have for you the visual catalog of everyone's efforts, plus a few gardens that look good.
Who's ready to see some pictures?
WARNING: The following images have graphical depictions of humans doing real and productive work while having a whole lot of fun at the same time. May not be suitable for all ages.

The potluck breakfast food had been well eaten by mid-day. The apples and pancakes seen here were snack-fare for many.

Off in the distance, three parachutes were gliding. (Two shown)

Look at all the debris cleared from the Southwestern quadrant of the gardens. Where will it all go?

Two gardeners got the idea - take the branches to the front for more wood chips!

But before paths can be wood-chipped, first they must be leveled out so wheelbarrels and trucks can have a smooth ride over them. Here some volunteers are scraping the path flat.

To the right, posts await being sunken into the ground. Here you can see one of the little ones that have come to help out.

Meanwhile, The Apostle Gabriel is nestled under some Prunus trees in flower, overlooking some of the first flowering shrubs and a prolific artichoke. He mixed up some entertaining work music for everyone. It got me thinking, can we have music blasted across the garden every weekend? Anyone have any huge capeable boomboxes to recess into the walls of the tool shed? Heh.

And now, a close-up of the apostle.

Way out on the other side of the garden in the Northwest quadrant, some workers are clearing away the brush and undergrowth.

Here are a couple more.

Turning around, this gives you an idea of where these folks are clearing stuff out - and a nice look at the gnarly grape vines before they bud forth with foliage. That speck in the distance is the tool shed and civilization as-we-know-it.
Speaking of which, here's a nice shot of the pink almond tree in full bloom over the shed. Beneath, signs are being prepared illustrating the up-and-coming community space.

It is always locked. Have you ever wondered what goes on in the back portion of the tool shed? Once shrouded in mystery, this reporter has gone in depth to reveal a host of tools that you would dream to get your hands on. Nice saws, machinery for tilling soil and shredding compost, paint, oil, ~~Human Cadavers (in the shadowy spot)~~, and marking tools.

Back in front again, the camera is treated to a shower of flower petals from the almond tree.

Carbon, carbon, everywhere, and not a pile of compost to stick it.
Nevermind, there's some! Mmm, black gold.

Many volunteers took off before this picture was taken, but here is everyone again. Note the difference between the first picture and this one: Everyone is grinning! What are we to conclude but that a day of garden work is good for the facial muscles? Ok, it was taken seconds after the first one, but the camera was flipped upside down, which everyone thought was so funny. Photoshop, however, didn't think it was all that special and let me flip it back again. Viola!

This could be you at the next ~~work~~ party. Huzzah!

I'm not quite done yet. It is time to wander back through the gardens and pick out some nicely maintained plots. Here's a cute small plot that has been carefully cleared and planted.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have that great big fenced plot growing herbs. Those can't all be for one person. I could never drink that much peppermint tea! (foreground) Always well groomed.

Of course, in front of the tool shed we have those soft berms of meticulously planted crops. Ok, you have way too much time on your hands. Some say that the planting of this plot was guided by a GPS uplink, and that at all times, whether planting or harvesting, there is always a prime number of plants.
Ok, no one says that. But it makes you wonder...

Here we have the garden with the broken tiles and the glass orb.

But you may more easily recognize this gardener's artistic merits by the cute wire mesh cones protecting the plants. The acheing question now is, how can one make use of this practical design without looking like one is copying? Note the S-curve path.

And finally, shameless self-promotion. Here are my neat little rows of garlic, onions, and the chard-row of Supreme Jealousy. Inverted bottles mark the rows.

Thank you everyone for perusing these images of the garden. Take a walk around the gardens yourselves, and get come ideas from fellow gardeners as to how to grow things. But be unique! Everyone has the opportunity to express their individuality with creative planting arrangements, artwork, and straight and precise or flowy rows.
Every couple of weeks I will be wandering through the garden to take snapshots of things as they grow, so here's to some good gardening ths year!
Karl J. Mogel

EC Vineyards Work coming up and those funny Orange Tags!

2006-03-01T23:24:00.000-08:00

At last Saturday's workparty, almost 90 grapevines were located and tagged in the gardens! There are more out there, so this is just the start. If you've found one (or many) of those little fluorescent orange tags on vines in your plot, they're just there to temporarily mark a vine's location. Soon you'll be able to get a "prune" or "don't prune" tag for any vines in your plot to let us know whether or not we should mess with them! Also, all the vines in the gardens will soon be marked, mapped and cared for (and hopefully identified this summer.)

The small vineyard northwest of the shed is about to get a makeover, that is the removal of all the nasty and thorny overgrowth that's choking it, but we need help!

The tentative date for this project will be March 11th, a week from Saturday. It should only take a few hours to clean it up with a few people. Can you help?

-Wesley

Let's post pictures of our gardens.

2006-02-28T23:10:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody, let's post pictures of our gardens on the blog. It would be really cool if all of us wrote a little blurb about what we're growing and what was growing there last season. You might also say how long you've had your plot and tell any story about your time at the EC Garden. I'm still without a digital camera, but here's a web image of the fingerling potatoes that I'm really excited about planting!

Petty Vandalism

2006-02-19T22:22:00.000-08:00

Greetings gardeners,

Although I wear the hat of the Fenstigator from time to time (Such as at the uber-party this saturday) in this post I am approaching everyone as a gardener who's been having a problem with his plot as of late.

Since I have been gardening here, I have added numerous features to my garden, namely a pond, lots of colorful glassware, a picnic table built from scrapwood, and a civil engineering sign of my mother's that I modified. Aside from the mammalian pests roaming around and mipping at my produce, gardening here has been quite fun and tasty. (fenstigation hat on: Vee shall prevail! hat off) However, in the past approximately six months there have been several cases of petty vandalism going on in my garden.

The wind often blows hard out in the gardens, and so things that could very likely have been due to the wind, such as things slipping into the pond, and one glass item breaking, are to be expected. However, the things that I will list here cannot be attributed to mere wind and rabbits.

First, one of my glass items, a pale green cone over a foot long, was smashed to bits in the fall of 2005. This was no act of wind, I had to get on my hands and knees and carefully pick all the pulverized smitherines of glass out of my onion patch. I have shown the fragments to Annie, a former garden coordinator whom you all know. I still have two of these cones left, fortunately.

Next, two of my glass items have gone missing. One was a very unique swirly piece of glass that looked like the tail of a brown whale coming up out of the ground. I bought it for about $15 at L-street furniture downtown. The second piece of glass to have gone missing was one of two green flasks that I bought off of the internet. It has since turned up at the Yolo SPCA thirft store, and so now it will be returned to my garden shortly. As a side note, I had to pay for it again as the SPCA would not give it back to me free. Oh well, its all for the animals.

And finally, about a week ago I was treated to all the bricks surrounding my pond being kicked into the pond. While fishing them out, I have found that the pond has become half full of rocks as well and all the fish are gone. I will have to clean it out Two piece of evidence were recovered from the scene: One was an old kitchen paring knife, and the other was a small water pistol. The acts themselves already bespeak juvenile attitudes, but the water pistol might confirm that it was indeed perpetrated by kids. I left both items on my table, and the water pistol has since disappeared.

Since it is easy to notice these sort of things in one's own garden, and not others, I have no idea whether these cases are specific to my plots or if this is happening everywhere. Has anyone else had things done to, or taken from their plots?

I would like to ask just a few things of my fellow gardeners. The first is, please email me at karl AT inoculatedmind DOT com if you have any information about any of these events. I have the knife in my possession - if anyone has seen someone playing with an old short knife and/or the water pistol, do let me know.

The second request is that everyone keep a watchful eye when they are in the gardens for people that may be messing around with other people's gardens. Get to know your neighbors, come and say hi! By forming social networks we can not only detect people that are not actual gardeners, I think having a friendly relationship might deter any sour-minded gardeners from wrecking the work of others.

Third, there are some kids that I and other gardeners have seen regularly hanging out at the gardens. I would not presume that they did anything to my garden, but it is a possibility. Does anyone know who they are? I know that other gardeners have seen them take food from people's plots, but they have been informed of their

I have been given a couple of ideas as to how I can address or prevent these little cases of vandalism against my plot, but they haven't satisfied me. Any ideas? Note that only the glassware and pond have received damage.

Also, about the future of my own plot, which has looked kind of ratty in the past, it's getting a makeover and I will also be adding a little mailbox with 3x5 cards in case anyone wants to drop a note!
Thanks,
Karl J. Mogel

Click here...

2006-02-19T21:36:00.000-08:00

Anyone need a laugh? Ha, Cuke Skywalker...

Vineyard Committee!

2006-02-04T21:04:00.000-08:00

The EC Gardens are home to many grape vines. These make up a valuable and even historic resource for the gardens that should no longer be neglected, so... the vineyard committee has been created! A few weeks ago myself and a couple of others decided to go ahead and form the vineyard committee. This was originally suggested some time ago by coordinator Annie. Now it's been started and we're pretty excited about the whole thing. Here are the committee's main objectives:

1. To map and identify all of the grape vines that exist in the gardens,
2. To ensure that the vines are cared for and properly maintained,
3. To ensure that the vines are fruitful every year so they can be enjoyed by all!

First steps for the committee will be getting members/help, getting started finding and mapping vines and getting them pruned up for the season. Estimates are that there are at least several dozen vines growing in the gardens, so this will be no small task! Also on the agenda is the creation of a sign for the "big" vineyard near the toolshed.
Another important function of the committee will be to extend assistance to gardeners whose plots contain vines, if the gardener isn't comfortable pruning or maintaining the vines themself.

If you're interested in joining or finding out how to get your garden's vines mapped and pruned, email me or Tim and we'll get back to you. Also, of course, we know there are more V&E students out there. We'd appreciate your help in joining to make sure the vines are properly pruned and supported in preparation for what we hope will be the first of many better growing seasons for the EC Gardens vines!

-Wesley

Woodchips from Trees at the Student Farm

2006-01-27T00:30:00.000-08:00

Remember when it was really windy and rainy after Christmas? The Tamarisk trees (Salt Cedar - leaves fix salt) at the Student Farm to our south started really tipping over, and they're being removed and chipped, because one actually fell in the road. So we got some more woodchips delivered from almost on-site and saved a bunch of gas.

Experimental College Community Garden

2006-01-22T18:59:00.000-08:00

Gorgeous day in the Garden
The Garden couldn't of been more pleasant this afternoon (Sunday, 1/22). The sun was shining and the wind had calmed down. The soil moisture was perfect for pulling out Bermuda grass. In my four years experience at the EC Garden, I've never had an easer time pulling out great big masses of Bermuda grass roots.

ECG Work Day 9-5 this Saturday, Jan. 14

2006-01-09T09:38:00.000-08:00

Anybody want to coordinate snacks/pastries? Create a post, use the comment box, or email members.

Let's Post Some Digital Garden Photos

2006-01-06T23:56:00.000-08:00

Hey, does anyone on the blog have a digital camera that they'd be willing to use to post EC Garden images to the blog? I can walk anybody through the process; it's easy.

Campfire Rained Out

2005-12-21T23:59:00.000-08:00

The Winter Solstice Campfire really was the darkest night of the year, not even a beacon of light from our little neck of the woods. A few die-hard gardeners were willing, but the fire was not. Thanks to all who came or would have come. We'll do it again soon, hopefully when it's not raining.

Fenstigation Underway

2005-12-13T01:18:00.000-08:00

Greetings from your friendly neighborhood Fenstigator.

The community fence project has already begun! Last Sunday the 4th, Annie, Rob and I (Although I had the honor of ditching) rented a Ditch Witch and dug the trench for the new fence, running south from the shed to the native grasses patch, and east to the Whole Earth Festival compound. From the opposite corner of WEF, the fence trench continues north under the silk tree and ends at a path. The current goal of the fence project is to fill these trenches with an attractive, functional, and above all community-built barrier for non-human mammalian pests.

On the more recent Sunday, the 11th, We had our first Fenstigation. We had four participants, myself included, who combined their fenstigation powers to yank posts out of the ground and scrape them off, and install six pre-painted (thanks to Annie) gate posts in the ground, and de-fenstigate part of the short length of fence built next to my plot last year. As a matter of fact, it was not so much a fenstigation as it was a funstigation! When you get a chance to come out to the garden, take a look at what has been accomplished!!

Fence Design

Okay, so you know where the fence is going to go, but what is it going to look like?

We're installing redwood and pressure-treated DougFir posts for gates and corners. Each of the different gates can be themed differently. There has been talk about building a big arch from post to post next to the shed, and between the two posts that reach across the path down by the native grasses, It has been suggested that we build a Shinto Torii, follow this link to a picture of what I mean.

Four feet from each gate will be a 2x4 serving as a fence post, with a 5-foot long diagonal 2x4 going from 3 feet high on the gate posts to the base of the 2x4 post. These will act as braces that will keep the fencewire stretched tight and prevent the gate posts from being pulled over.

After the diagonal brace/first 2x4 post, we will alternate between metal T-posts and 2x4 posts, each of them 8 feet apart. Each of the posts will be painted different colors

Now for the wire. We will use 3-foot tall aviary wire for the fence. The openings in the wire mesh should be no bigger than a quarter (1 inch) so as to prevent the baby squirrels from being able to get through. The fencewire will be sunk six inches into the ground, and so the fencewire will stand at 2.5 feet tall.

We've been talking about lining the top with wooden strips and/or aluminum cans strung on a wire, perhaps even electrically charged wires to keep the squirrels from climbing. But for now, let's get the fence up while we discuss what to put along the top. Not until there's a fence with gates installed will any of these additions do any good!

Things you can do

- Paint posts. South of the shed, we have a painting station set up. If you are looking to fulfill work hours this is the thing to do. We have 4x4s and 2x4 posts that need two coats of paint each before they can go in the ground. Just make sure they are scraped clean (with the wire brush you use to scrape tools) and are completely dry. There's a 5-gallon bucket of beige paint, a paint roller, and roller tray out by the posts. Just remember to clean up the equipment when you are through. We can add the pretty colors to the fence posts as final coats of paint before or just after we put them in the ground.
- Scrape off the gate that is leaning against a tree near the four fence posts next to the native grasses. It will need to be painted just like the posts.
- Paint the above gate.
- Donate paint. Exterior latex paint, any color. We already have beige, light blue-green, and a dark blue-gray. Reds, yellows, purples, anything that could make the fence look nice would work!
- Donate fence wire, any length and width, but keep in mind that the holes in the wire have to be 1 inch or less. If we have enough wire we could later add an extra foot to the fence to make it higher!
- Donate Wood. We could also use more redwood and pressure-treated Douglass Fir 4x4 and 2x4 posts, as well as metal T-posts. If you see any T-posts stuck in the ground in random places in the far reaches of the garden, pull them out and bring them next to the shed to add them to the project. If you have pine, or wood of an unknown species, feel free to donate it, but put it in the big pile of wood out in the corner of the field past the native grasses. We can use pine for components that to not touch the ground, but not for fence posts - DON'T put pine boards with the posts to be painted - an unwary gardener might paint them by accident and we'll have fence posts rotting out in random places in a couple years. That would be difficult to deal with!
- Mention this to your neighbors, especially those inside the fence. We have enough materials within the future fence to build the fence itself, and they will be redundant once it is built so it only makes sense to donate them!
- Think of ideas for how we could make a wooden arch between the fenceposts by the shed. Something that would look smooth and nice, and would last!
- Come to the next Fenstigation!

That's it for now, feel free to leave fence ideas in the comments, I will keep everyone updated on the progress of the First EC Garden Fenstigation.

You're Fenstigator,

Karl J. Mogel

WOODCHIPS!

2005-12-12T11:45:00.000-08:00

Usually, when I hear woodchippers and lawn-mowers in the morning, I turn over in bed and grunt or mumble some muffled explicative. But today I jumped out of bed!

Woodchips have been short recently, because the folks who normally deliver them are afraid that the ground is too wet for their truck - it could get stuck.

I asked the workmen if they'd dump them at the EC Garden, and they were subtly overjoyed - I think it meant a shorter workday. We now have woodchips AND firewood. There are some leaves and logs in the pile, but I think we'll do just fine.

WINTER SOLSTICE CAMPFIRE

2005-12-08T18:46:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, there's a plan in the works for our next ECG campfire event. You can get involved by looking at or posting comments to the 11/28/05 "Campfire at EC Garden" post.

We're considering 12/21/05 as our evening to be.

Campfire at EC Garden!

2005-11-28T12:12:00.000-08:00

This past Saturday there was a campfire at the Experimental College Community Garden, on the Southwest end from 6 to 10 p.m. There were about 16 people in attendance, including gardeners, kids, friends, and community members. We cooked porcini mushrooms and bread, turkey dogs, marshmallows and smores. It was a lot of fun!

Later in the evening, we had a drum circle. That was cool. Even I got in on the action - it took me a while to warm up! I'm spoiled now, it's so cold, and that fire was soooo nice and toasty.

We are toying around with the idea of having fires on every full moon. Please post a comment on your interest.

Welcome

2005-11-23T12:50:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Experiemental College Community Garden Blog!