Happy Springtime Everyone!

There may still be cold and snow on our horizon, as well as  in the garden this morning, but the plants and the soil know that it is springtime. And so do we here in The Cullowhee Community Garden!  

Wow, we sure have been busy since that last blog post on this site. Apologies for not keeping you all updated more. We have planted many of our fruit trees in the style of a 

Food Forest along the western edge of the garden area. 

We completed and planted our blueberry mounds along our main pathway. 

We have been removing invasive plant species, we cleaned out the beautiful black willow tree (Salix nigra) next to the shed, 

and have landscaped around it 

and throughout the garden with native shrubs and wildflowers that were donated to us by the plant vendors from the 2013 Cullowhee Native Plants Conference.

We have formed our planning committee, and held the first meeting of the year. The committee is using the consensus-based decision making process. You can read more about that here: www.consensusdecisionmaking.org

Currently our Community Volunteer Workdays are on Wednesdays from 3 pm until dusk, and every Saturday from 10 am until 2 pm. Common tasks include planting, weeding, spreading mulch, helping us with small infrastructure projects, and much more. Also, look for educational programs that we will begin offering in conjunction with the NC Cooperative Extension Service. We will keep you posted on that.

Please share with us suggestions and ideas for educational topics that you would like to see offered in The Cullowhee Community Garden, or if you would like to present on a topic that you know a lot about. You can also suggest other knowledgeable members of our community who you think could offer a great workshop for us.

We would love to have you come visit with us! The garden is always open, and always beautiful! Please, stop on by anytime! Until then, enjoy these videos of the garden.

Kale Yeah!