Thanks to a wonderful group of volunteers sponsored by the Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, TX, the garden received two new benches and two gorgeous redwood raised beds! Gardeners and visitors now have a great place to rest as they take in the beauty of the garden. The raised beds will have a new home right at the front of the garden next year, in order to be close to the entrance and to accommodate garden helpers who may have some difficulties working on the ground.  Thank you to all for such great work in support of our garden community!

Thank you, Ian, at Colorado Energy Systems for your generous donation of solar lighting for our garden shed. We love getting new partners!

What a wonderful surprise dropped by the garden this week!  Dwyers decided we needed more plants to nurture!  A wonderful donation from a wonderful community partner. Thank you from us all!

Check out all they have to offer here: https://www.dwyergreens.com/

Is your soil optimized for your growing season?  Have you wanted to test and amend your soil, but wanted a little guidance? Join us for an educational session on soil testing and amendments with Gardener Sarah Nieto on Saturday, June 15th from 10-11am!  Free and open to the public. All gardeners welcome!

Before and after soil amending” by davef3138 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

Recently, middle-schoolers came by to help us get two important gardens started –the Kid’s Garden and our Herbal Garden.  They also brought plants to include, birdhouses for our back fence, and homemade bird-feeders.  What a wonderful contribution to our sustainable community!  We are grateful for the support and effort.

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Thank you to Roaring Fork Lifestyle Magazine for the wonderful feature in their April edition!

Did you know that the Community Garden received visitors from 24/50 states in 2018?  At least according to our first ever guestbook, we were able to capture the wonderful reflections of visitors from all over the United States.  There may have even been more state visitors, not reflected there. We even had visitors from Germany and China!  We love being a park-like attraction to Glenwood Springs visitors. Stop by sometime this summer and say hello –and sign the guest book too!

    Compost Tea, that is. 

Cynthia DeVore, one of our gardeners will be offering a special class, sharing her recipe and approach for fantastic COMPOST TEA. Please consider joining us on this Solstice evening.

FREE  and open to the public.

About Cynthia: Cynthia is a lifelong plant lover and avid gardener. She takes a special interest in prairie and native landscaping and is enjoying learning this new environment. She has dabbled in everything from commercial landscaping to whole-yard turf riddance projects to Volunteer Garden Tour Guide at Lauritzen Gardens. After living in Omaha, NE for 35 years, she recently moved to Glenwood Springs and now operates Roaring Fork Valley Healing Arts. She is an LMT, Watsu Provider, Yoga Teacher (Himalayan Tradition) and a Hellerwork Structural Integration Student Practitioner.

photo credit: suzie’s farm on flickr

We are excited to have a new Guest Book House gracing the entrance to our garden, thanks to Danny Moss of Dan’s Outback Woodworks.

The Community Garden is a welcoming attraction for traveling tourists and local guests alike.  We hope you’ll sign the book next time you come by!

Happy gardening!