cape cod organic gardeners

CAPE COD ORGANIC GARDENERS
SPRING 2009 NEWSLETTER

Editor’s Solar Greenhouse Feb 27 with lettuce, lemons, chives, basil,  and spinach. 

TIME TO START SEEDLINGS

Can you believe it? Time to plant your seedlings for the CCOG Plant Sale on Saturday May 16. Note: Label plant pots with masking tape: Variety and if open pollinated. Leave room for us to price.

ORGANINC FARMER WINS COUNTY LEASE
CCOG member Tim Friary has signed a three year lease with Barnstable County to use portions of the County Farm, with an option to extend it to ten years. In exchange Tim will be making some improvement to the property.

NEWSLETTER Score Update 
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Save a stamp! Save gas! Save trees! Save the planet! To get the newsletter online via email instead of paper mail, email polotka@gmail.com with your email address. You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOG newsletter on the web go http://ccog.wordpress.com/

ANNUAL OVER-DUES $5
If you have not paid up. Please do so. Amount: $5
Payable to: Cape Cod Organic Gardeners , P.O. Box 464, Cummaquid, Ma 02637
Past Due Date: January 5, 2009

NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to: Tamar Haspel, Kevin Flarety, Jessica Powers

THANKS
Thanks to Lois Fournier for hosting the winter Pot Luck (with doubled attendance from last year) and to Carolyn Albrycht for coordinating the bulk order.  Special thanks for the donation in memory of Feliciano Tavares, an avid organic gardener, from a CCOG member.

2009 SPRING CALENDAR
MARCH
March 14 Saturday 2 – 4 pm:  Bulk Order Pick Up. Kelly Barn, 66 Marston Ln, Cummaquid. 508 362 8136 Note: Onions Shallots Potatoes April 11

March 19 Thursday  7 pm: CCOG Meeting Reports on NOFA Winter Conference  at Wheldon Library. Rt 149 W. Barnstable.

March 21 Saturday (call Jean for time):  Seed Starting Workshop. Please register 508 362 8136

APRIL
April 11 Saturday 2 – 4 pm: Bulk Order Pick Up for: Onions Shallots Potatoes Kelly Barn, 66 Marston Ln, Cummaquid. 508 362 8136

April 18 Saturday 2:30 pm: NOFA Workshop – Vegetable Gardening Sponsored by the Green Committee at the Unitarian Church Barnstable Village.  Also sponsored by Green Cape and CCOG 
Note: This will replace the Regular April  CCOG Meeting

MAY Note plant sale new dates due to cold

May 15 Friday at 3-6 PM: Bring Seedlings, Herbs Annuals and Perennials to the Kelly Farm Produce Stand Rt 6A next to Marstons Ln. Cummaquid for the next day’s Plant Sale.

May 16 Saturday 9 AM – Noon:  Plant Sale at the Kelly Produce Stand Rt 6A next to Marstons Ln. Cummaquid. Tell your friends!