CAPE COD ORGANIC GARDENERS
SUMMER 2007 NEWSLETTER
THANKS
Thanks to more than 40 members who are getting the newsletter online.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CCOG NEWSLETTER ONLINE
Cape Cod Organic Gardeners is now online. You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOC newsletter on the web go to http://ccog.wordpress.com/
GOOD TO GROW!
Good To Grow! Is an initiative of the Association of Children’s Museums focusing on the issue of childhood obesity. A part of the Good To Grow! is to help Children’s Museums offer organic gardening programs for children to help them develop good eating habits. There are 300 Children’s Museums nation wide.
The Cape Cod Children’s Museum in Mashpee will be a Good To Grow! participant when the national program is underway later this year. The Cape Cod Children’s Museum currently offers the “Little Sprouts” summer organic gardening program for children ages 4 – 10 in partnership with the Coonamessett farm in Falmouth.
CCOG Online Editor Peter Olotka designed the GoodToGrow! website which is now in the final stages of development.
CALENDAR
TOURS…TOURS….TOURS
June 24 Sunday 1:00 Hedge House (Peter Hughs)
Please Note: This is a change from the 3:00 pm time published in the last newsletter.
Location: Opposite the Yarmouthport Playground, # 455 on the corner of 6A and West Yarmouth Rd. Park along the playground. 508 362 8974.
Peter’s garden’s are entirely Organic. He will show us vegetable, perennial, rose and Japanese woodland gardens.
July 15 Sunday 3:30 Barnstable Community Gardens
Location: Newtown Rd. (Off Rt 28)
Carolyn Albrycht will show us their garden and also the children’s gardens
July 29 Sunday 3:30 Peter & Cindy Olotka
Location: 56 Richard’s Lane, Centerville. Off Phinney’s Ln., between Rt. 132 and Rt 28, 0.5 mi. from Rt 28 (508) 775 1467
The entire vegetable garden has been double dug. Also: flowers, perennials, solar greenhouse, shitake mushrooms and blueberries.
August 19 Sunday 3:30 PM Kevin and Nancy Mennegrode NEW DATE
Location: 149 School St., Marstons Mills Take Old Mill Rd., off Race Lane to School St.
Two vegetable garden plots with new methods of saving space.
August 26 Sunday 2:30 PM Barbara Kusalis
Location: Rt. 149, W.Barnstable (West Barnstable Tables). Near Rt. 6A, opposite General Store
Home garden and greenhouse.
Followed by:
Seaflash Farm – Sarah and Michael Burke
Location: 2346 Rt. 149. Take driveway to left of barn.
Chickens, vegetables, blueberries, and raspberries
September 9 Sunday – 12:00 noon – Cape Cod Community College – Rain date 9/16
Location: Rt. 132 North of exit 6. Park in Lot #11 go across street and up hill, between the commons and the science building.
Catherine Etter will show us the small teaching greenhouse and grounds to view organic IPM practices, composting, worm bin, tilapia aquaculture, herb hydroponics butterfly attracting plants, native grasses and trails.
Followed by:
1:30 PM Pot Luck Picnic at Kelly Farm Jean Iversen
Location: 66 Marstons Ln., Cummaquid
Note rain date 9/16. Please bring your own place setting and food contribution. 508 362-8136
