Garden Network
The Community & School Garden Network is for any Tompkins County resident who is using gardens as an educational tool when working in a community or school setting, or who is interested in this type of work. Gardens types are not limited to vegetable, ornamental, container, butterfly, flowers or trees. No experience is required. You may attend one or all sessions. Registration not required but preferred - contact Liz Falk erf59@cornell.edu or 272 2292, ext 268.
Each month the session will be held at a different location in our community to: a) give participants an opportunity to see multiple projects; b) give host sites an opportunity to share projects publicly and to receive feedback; and, c) to provide extra hands for any work the host site may need. If you are interested in hosting a future session at your project or potential garden site, please send a short description of the project, and the name/phone/email of a contact personl to Josh Dolan at jd285@cornell.edu. We will try to include you in the 2010/2011 schedule.
Lastly, if you have a suggested topic for a session, please let us know that too.
2010/2011 Network SCHEDULE
Network Sessions are held from 5:30-7pm on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
**A car pool will leave from the CCE-Tompkins Education Center at 615 Willow Avenue promptly at 5:15. If you are able to drive your car from CCE or need a ride, please contact Liz Falk at erf59@cornell.edu or 272 2292, ext 268.
Tuesday, August 17. DeWitt Middle School
Topic: School Garden, Greenhouse and Garden to Cafeteria
Address: 560 Warren Road, Ithaca
The class will be led by Wayne Gottlieb, a 7th grade science teacher who facilitated the creation of the extensive Dewitt Garden over the last winter and spring and sells some of the gardens produce to the school's cafeteria.
Tuesday, September 21. BJM Elementary
Topic: Perennials, Annuals, Gardening, Food and Fun with Kids
Address: 302 West Buffalo, but meet on the Court Street side
The BJM garden has both raised beds and a "sheet mulched" in-the-ground garden (est 2010). To meet the multiple uses of the combined garden/playground site, these garden areas are being developed strategically with perennial edibles, herbs, rain garden plants and annual vegetables. Additionally, these gardens are connecting with the Fruit and Vegetable Snack program and in the classroom garden education so the kids get a full-circle of good food exposure.
!!CANCELLED!! Tuesday, October 19. Ithaca College Garden
Topic: Gardening, administration and profits – a small scale CSA
Address: TBA
This garden was established at IC in 2010 and is all volunteer student run. Students will give a tour, discuss how they got started and explain their faculty CSA program.
Tuesday, November 16. Southside Community Center
Topic: Winterizing your Garden and Extending the Season
Address: 305 Plain Street, Ithaca
Learn simple techniques you can do to extend the season of some of your crops, put the garden to bed for winter while also improving the soil, and get an early start on the season in the spring.
January – March are not scheduled at this time. Please stay tuned for more information.
