Contact Jennifer Dodge at jdodgeus@yahoo.com or (804)644-7756 if you can help out: HELP!! Can we borrow your cordless drill? We have many volunteers for various jobs and we are in desperate need of drills on Saturday morning 10am-2pm at the Chimborazo Community Garden, 31st St a half-block south of Broad. Thank you!
The gardeners at the Chimborazo Community Garden need help filling the new raised garden beds, and are looking for someone with a small bobcat and the skills to move 35 cubic yards of top soil: If you have the bobcat, and the bobcat chops, we have a weeeeeee bit of money and an enormous amount [...]
A message from the folks at Tricycle Gardens: Thanks to donations around our fund-raiser party in June, we have been able to build 10 new garden plots at the Chimborazo Community Garden! Some of them are still available. If you are interested in one for 2011 (but starting this fall), email chimbo@tricyclegardens.org. There is a [...]
Jennifer writes in with frustrating news: The Chimborazo Community Garden was vandalized today. Nothing permanent, but vandals tore up a bunch of plants, smashed them and left them around. A witness saw 2-3 young adult men and some children doing this about 5pm today. Neighbors are asked to help keep an eye on our new [...]
The fine folks at Tricycle Gardens invite everyone out for a open house, open gardens night on June 17th: Please join us on one of the longest days of the year to celebrate and enjoy the hard work of friends, neighbors, volunteers, garden managers, and the staff & board of Tricycle Gardens. Meet the people [...]
Backyard Farmer will be conducting a workshop covering soil health and amendments, planting, watering, bed management, row cover, cold frames, and other tips for successful gardening at the new Tricycle Community Garden @ Chimbo Playground Park this coming Saturday, March 27 at 2PM. Cost: $20 plus optional materials (you can build a cold frame or [...]
A recent email from Tricycle Gardens has an update on the Chimborazo Community Garden: The Chimborazo Community Garden in Church Hill is coming together. We have started to build the shed (thanks to the fine skills of Josh Cooley), and have built the frame for our first test cold frame (yay Danny!). 2010 promises to [...]
An email from Tricycle Gardens today announced their First Annual Harvest Dinner for Saturday October 3rd, 6-10PM at the Robinson Theater. The message also has details on the new community garden in the works for the Chimborazo Playground Park.
