Plant Propagation with Wes Burlingame
When: Saturday Aril 4th 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Pisgah View Community Peace Garden
What: Wes will guide us through hands on techniques for plant propagation. Starting plants from seed, cuttings, layering and division. Low tech procedures easy for the home amateur will be emphasized.
Bench Grafting, and cloning around with Professor T. Bud Barkslip
When: Saturday March 28th, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Pisgah View Community Peace Garden
What: Professor Barkslip will hurl you through the wild world of cloning. Archaically known as the art of grafting, you will learn to skill yourself with a very sharp knife and joining together two pieces of living wood into a growing tree using the cleft and whip and tongue graft. Also discussed will be follow up care, varieties, applications and other matters of importance the Professor deems relevant at the time. Plan on leaving with fruit trees. Note: There will be a nominal materials charge for more than 1 fruit tree.
We harvested our first crops of snap peas, turnips, arugula, leeks and kale…people interested in buying fresh produce can come by the garden or contact us at pvapeacegarden@gmail.com. Tomatoes, squash, greens, corn, bush beans, melons, eggplant, peppers, and lots more will be available throughout the summer. Stay tuned for tailgate market dates!!
With the help of a Seed grant from the Center for Participatory Change, the community came together and built a 12′x40′greenhouse on De c. 13, 2007. Special thanks go out to Craig White, Ratus Fischer, Abagail Wendell and Owen Aschoff for their help!
The garden will not be having workdays through the month of January. We will begin again in early February. The workdays will be on Sundays and are open to anyone who shares our vision of a sustainable future. If you need more info/directions, email us at pvapeacegarden@gmail.com.
Woman of PVA got together this evening in the garden for the first meeting of the women’s wellness group. Food was shared and the ladies planned upcoming events and meetings. Topics of future discussion will be finances, stress relief, excercise, herbal remedies, and pampering ourselves!
The Pisgah View Community Peace Garden would like to thank everyone who came out to Rosetta’s Kitchen on Sept 16th for the benefit. We raised over $600 to buy garden tools and other supplies.
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