Yarnell Community Garden Project
Yarnell, Arizona
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WHO WE ARE:
"The Garden Gang" is a friendly group of people from Yarnell, Peeple's Valley, & Congress, Arizona; who want to garden and have fun while we're at it.
We currently meet every Sunday at 5:00 PM at the Community Center Building in Yarnell, Arizona.
We currently work in the Garden in the mornings, but our "work hours" constantly are changing with the changes in the weather and the demands of our plants.
Members pay a $10 annual membership fee and participate in whatever way they may choose to help the Garden flourish.
To get more information or to confirm meetings or working schedules, please e-mail Eve DeLange at the link near the top of this page, just under the "Couch Potato".
OUR VISION:
A garden that is both beautiful and bountiful, one which provides sustenance, inspires opportunities for offshoots, and creates a feeling of belonging.
Our gardening activities will grow an atmosphere that is welcoming, purposeful, and fun.
OUR MISSION:
To create a self-sustaining, welcoming garden which nourishes members of the community, re-connects us with nature, and provides opportunities to share food, information, technology, skills, and resources.
We also want to encourage and assist members of our community in their gardens at home.
The Yarnell Community Garden Project was launched in 2009, it has leased and fenced in a 1/3 acre plot just west of the Yarnell Public Library.
It's gardening activities include planting, watering, sign-making, weeding, promoting, harvesting, selling at the Farmer's Market, sampling, researching, shopping, eating, .... and there are countless other ways to participate!
This year in 2011, the Yarnell Community Garden Project or YCGP, planted mostly Heirloom Seeds.
These plants will provide our members and community a wider variety of flavors, colors, texture, and sizes than those plants that are commercially available in most of the vegetable markets today.
A Heirloom Plant is a cultivated variety of a plant that was commonly grown during earlier periods of our Human History.
In today's modern agriculture in our industrialized world, most food crops are now grown in large, monocultural plots, with few varieties. This is done to maximize consistancy and to lower operating costs.
The plants selected for this use are chosen for their productivity, ability to withstand mechanical picking, cross-country shipping, and their tolerance to drought, frost, and or pesticides.
They do not always have the best flavor!
Heirloom Gardening is a reaction against this trend, and it is now becoming popular among many home gardeners.
Please feel free to join with us in this new effort of our gardening project!
Our Newsletter! Written By: Frances Lechner.
Oh, the Glorious Garden!
Wow, are we ever happy and grateful! Our Saturday morning Farmers Market
has been such a success, and our friends, neighbors and visitors’ generous purchases could not have come at a better time! Our savings account has been rapidly depleted by constructing and refining our watering system, and so our sales are critical for paying bills such as water, organic pesticide, additional parts, 501(c)(3) application, yada yada yada…. Like who doesn’t have bills, right? So – thanks for stopping by, buying produce, making cooking suggestions (like butter & nutmeg on steamed squash – thanks, Favor! or yellow squash stuffed with rice and herbs, cooked in a crockpot - yumm, Emad!) Special thanks, too, to Mel who lovingly babysits plants during the week, and donates them to the Garden for your shopping pleasure. The Saturday Farmers’ Market is another great example of many hands make light the work: the team has set-up and tear-down almost down to a science, and the coordination of harvesting, display, and distribution has been so satisfying.
We apologize for the goof in last month’s newsletter – the Saturday Farmers’ Market is open from 8 am – 11:00-ish, so we encourage you to come down early, when the morning is still cool, and the veggies are more plentiful.
PLAN AHEAD! October 1 will be another magical evening in the Garden, a veritable Eclectic Eating Experience. This year will be created for more relaxed mingling, and will include the opportunity for guests to bring their own adult beverages, if they so choose. Kari is already harvesting goodies from the Garden to feature in items that you’ll savor at this event. Look for more live music, grazing from scrumptious food choices at different spots in the Garden (i.e., not one long buffet line) and of course, a few surprises. I mean – what’s a party without some kind of surprise element! Start time will be 5-ish pm, and admission price is by donation. Yep, we’ll have flyers out – just wanted you to get this evening on your calendar! RSVP to ______________________
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Parking Area & Entrance.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Entrance Sign.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Raised Bed, Strawberry Plants.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Strawberry Plant
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Raised Bed, Strawberry Plants Flower.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Raised Bed, Strawberry Plants Fruit.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Raised Bed
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Raised Bed
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Raised Bed Onions.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Raised Bed Onions.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Raised Bed Peas.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Raised Bed Peas Flowers.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Water Holding Tank.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Water Holding Tank.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Water Holding Tank
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Greenhouse
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Storage Room.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Rest Area.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Dirt Pile.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Compost Containers.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Gardening Soil.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Leaf Chipper.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Herbs.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Lettace.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.
Yarnell Community Garden Project, Yarnell, Arizona.Links To Local Yarnell Area Features & Attractions.
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