Gateway Greening Grant! Please help March 12th and/or 13th!

Here are some tomato seedlings we planted just waiting for warmer weather to enjoy some fresh air, sunshine and great soil. The good news is after next weekend the garden will be one step closer to accommodate them!

The following is a letter that Larry sent out last week. We are very excited to be building raised beds next weekend but we'll need help! We are also going to construct the strawberry beds this weekend to have in place for the soil that's being delivered. We are so close to planting and digging in the dirt!!!!!!

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Garden supporters,

I am very pleased to share the news that we attended the Gateway
Greening (GGI) awards ceremony and were presented with a grant to
cover all the lumber soil to cover construction of 5 of the raised
beds!! We also will be using Gateway Greening's resources to to get
the best possible price on the rest of the materials that we need to
construct the remaining beds not covered by the grant.

Equally or even more important than the financial support is the fact
that we are a part of the Gateway Greening community circle now.
Attending the Growing Gardener training classes I have found that the
Gateway Greening community is an awesome support mechanism for any
project or issue that you need help with in your garden. They have a
staff horticulturist who is willing to share her in-depth plant and
gardening knowledge, they have wonderful advice on anything we may
find that we need help on in the future. The have master gardeners
that are members of the the gardens they already support and they are
willing to come when needed. The also give grants for garden
expansions so we may be able to get additional financial assistance in
future years for an irrigation system.

We have targeted March 12th & 13th to do the raised bed construction.
We have 12 raised beds that have applications on them and we plan to
build 15 this spring in the event some late applications come in. The
plan is that GGI will deliver all the materials on Thursday and we
will begin constructing the beds on Friday morning. GGI also will
bring an array of tools needed for the construction. Saturday will
consist of filling the beds with soil, so we will need all the
wheelbarrows, shovels, and strong backs we can muster for the 2 day
event. I know Friday many of us will be working, but please come
either day, whenever you can and stay as long as you are able. If you
have a wheelbarrow or shovel bring that along as well. Hopefully the
weather will cooperate!

It is almost here!
Your Garden Coordinators