The fencing is going up.

Thanks to one and all for your good work.

Late Summer at the Garden

After digging posts it's important to stop for a beer. In photo: Alex Brock, Willy Baer, Kurt Reynertson

Beautiful cabbage in Maritza & Margarita's plot.

Post digging made easy with a post digger as demonstrated by Kurt Reynertson

Willy Baer lines up the row of posts by the scientific method of eye-balling it.

Alex & Willy's plot produced some beautiful (& delicious!) yellow cherry tomatoes!

My giant sunflowers feeling the weight of gravity after months of defying it!

The fence posts are in after a tremendous effort by the mighty Halcott gardeners!

Posts & pumpkin

Delaware-Green Eat Well Play Hard Community Project Grant

Many thanks to Claire Homitzky of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County. Back from maternity leave, Claire has hit the deck running and as a result HCG will be the recipient of 2 new garden gates from the Critterfence Co. paid for with grant funding for the Delaware-Greene Eat Well Play Hard Community Project. This will allow us to complete our enclosure of the garden before the snow flies and be ready for the critters next season. Stay tuned for a final fall cleanup and work day to complete our fencing project in late October. We will ask all members to attend and ready their beds for Spring. Also, save the date for our first Annual Halcott Community Garden Feast on Saturday October 9th at 4pm at the Grange.

Please bring a dish to pass ideally featuring some of your seasons finest produce plus beverages of your choice. Jim Rauter & friends will provide after dinner musical entertainment. We will be asking for a $5.00 suggested donation to stock the coffers for a delivery of compost next Spring , so please spread the word and encourage friends and neighbors to attend!

HCG Highlighted in Pure Catskills Blog Post

Our garden made an appearance in a recent blog post by Challey Comer of Pure Catskills! 

Pure Catskills is a "buy local"campaign for farms, farmer's markets, restaurants, retailers and community organizations in Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. 

The post covers other community gardens that have bloomed recently too both in Ellenville and Walton. Check it out and if you know of other community gardens that are not mentioned in the post, don't hesitate to contact Challey. 

Debut of Garden During Halcott Fair 2010

Work day at the Garden - June 19, 2010

 

Sergey Denissevitch, his brother Oleg, visiting from Belarus, 

Margarita Sheflyand, Maritza Birman and Willy Baer

arriving to work in the garden

Innes and Laura Kasanof at their plot

Bill Bernhardt bringing water from the creek

Sheila Reynertson arriving with son August

Alex Brock's daughter Lucy and August Reynertson

Oleg Denissevitch

Alex Brock, Margarita Sheflyand, Sergey and 

Oleg Denissevitch discuss filling their raised bed

Chris DiBenedetto plowed the garden. Thanks Chris!

Margarita Sheflyand working her raised bed

Alex Brock and Judy DiBenedetto talk gardening

Stay back 500 feet, Innes at work!

Say Cheese! Margarita and Maritza

Sheila Reynertson at her raised bed

GARDEN FENCE PROJECT MAKING HEADWAY

Thanks to generous donations from the Halcott Community Fund, Wadler Bros. Inc. and Tim & Chrystl Johnson, the Halcott Community Garden will soon have a fence to keep out the critters! Stay tuned for our next work day to help with installing the fence, hopefully sooner rather than later as the beasts, both little and big, are slowly discovering us in their fertile valley. Also, special thanks to Barbara Dury for securing the garden patronage of Wadler Bros., a local building supply outlet with long family ties to Halcott. It is wonderful to add their support to our evergrowing roster of patrons.

COMMUNAL GARDEN PLOTS ARE UNDERWAY.....thanks to all who attended a great work day on Saturday. We successfully planted all of the available raised beds, picked rock from the newly disked center area, cut back invading vegetation and began work on our first inground plot for growing food and veges to be harvested for donation to local organizations and for our first ANNUAL FALL HARVEST CELEBRATION....DATE IN OCT TBD......

For member gardeners who wish to dig in......please note the first communal bed has been lightly axe picked and some stoned removed forming a defining circle. A mulch of newspaper and soil has been placed along the outer ring, and the bed is awaiting a topping of composted manure to be delivered by Chris & Judy. It will require some further digging in and should then be ready to go. PLease feel free to continue work on this plot, but make sure you clearly mark any areas you plant with i.d. of what is growing there....Also if you will be planting perennials, please make sure they are situated with room to grow . Help yourselves to any seeds you want to try located in a plastic covered lime bucket on site. A temporary marker of a stone with writing on it will do to alert others not to disturb new plantings......bring your sharpies!!!

NEXT GARDEN MEETING

NEWS FLASH......NEXT MEETING WILL BE SATURDAY JUNE 19TH AT 11:00 AM IN THE GARDEN....WEAR YOUR WORK CLOTHES & HATS.....BRING YOUR SHOVELS & HOES...DON'T FORGET WATER TO DRINK.... WE'LL BE WORKING IN GROUND BEDS.......SEE YOU THERE!....PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A MEETING AT THE GRANGE AT 10:00 AM THAT MORNING TO DISCUSS THE HALCOTT COMMUNITY FUND AND THE FAIR, SO IF YOU HAVE TIME, PLAN TO ATTEND THIS AS WELL AND WE CAN BRAINSTORM THE BEST WAY TO INTRODUCE THE GARDEN AT THE FAIR......

Memorial Day weekend

Nitty Gritty

The work meeting on the 29th was a success.  The garden is taking shape nicely.

Thanks to all!