Defining Our Boundaries

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all ward members who have been helping to weed, harvest and enjoy our wonderful garden produce! As a friendly reminder we ask that you please be careful what you harvest. The White's have generously shared some space for the ward garden but we need to make sure we don't venture into their personal garden space. A yellow tape divides the ward garden and their personal garden. If the tape is down an easy way to stay safe is to keep to the East of the tree growing in the middle of the garden.

If you are unsure where our garden ends and their's begins, please ask.

Continue to look for produce on the table in front of Asay's house.

Thank you all, we love you.

Weeding Schedule

Help Make Our Garden Beautiful and Weed-Free

The garden is ready to weed. We hope that everyone will take their turn and help out so that our garden will produce well.

We've divided up the weeding assignments by neighborhood blocks -- the same that we would use in an emergency response situation. If you have any questions about which block you're in just click on the neighborhood block areas 1-8 on the right side of the page and you should find yourself.

You're welcome to help weed anytime, not just during your week. The more you weed the more blessings you'll get.

Captains, you are responsible to gather your "block" to help during your week. If you have any questions please call either Benny Hall or Gary Johnson and they will answer them.

Here are a few weeding tips:

1. Be careful as the plants are still quite fragile and break easily. Little hands can make quick work just as easily as many hands make for quick work just with an unwanted result.
2. A few plants have been replanted and so you will find both large and small plants. Be careful that you don't pull any of the good plants.
3. Please take this time to help train your children how to weed and to work.

And now, (drum roll please) the schedule:

• June 17 - Blackhurst (Block Area #2)
• June 24 - Pflueger (#7)
• July 1 - Ben and Lisa Hemming (#5)
• July 8 - Tony & Amy Gibson (#1)
• July 15 - Ingerson (#6)
• July 22 - Wilson (#3)
• July 29 - Parley Jr. and Marin Holliday (#4)
• August 5 - TBA
• August 12 - Chadwick (#9)
• August 19 - McAllister (#8)
• August 26 -
• September 2 -

2nd Planting Coming Soon!!!

Put May 29th at 10:00 am on your calendar and come help plant the rest of the ward garden.

Bring your gloves and hand shovels as we'll be planting peppers and corn.

Call Gary Johnson or Benny Hall if you have any questions. Their numbers are in the committee post.

First Planting

We had a great time planting this morning as you can see. The soil was freshly tilled by Bro. David Wade and we had a great group there helping plant.

Sowing and Weeding and Harvesting, Oh My!

What do jack-o-lanterns, candy corn, Yukon gold, amazing salsa, and boatloads of zucchini have in common?

Hint, it’s not Bishop Peterson’s backyard now that he’s been released. (Thanks again for the great job you did and we want Bishop Nichols to know how excited we are for him.) No, the answer is this year’s ward garden.

We invite all to come participate this year as we grow together. Quentin and Riita White have generously donated part of their garden area to the ward for us to grow closer together. We also have other volunteers to help coordinate and support the ward as we work toward an amazing ward party where we will get together to eat the fruits of our labors.

The garden plan is to grow enough corn for the ward members to enjoy plus have enough left over to have a great ward party in August. We’ll also have tomatoes, onions, and peppers to make homemade salsa and potatoes and squash for more traditional LDS appetites. Finally, we hope to provide pumpkins for the children for their Halloween jack-o-lanterns.

We realize that many of you don’t have the time, space, or expertise to grow your own gardens so we’ve put together a team to help. A garden committee, formed under the direction of Chuck and Carolyn Owen, amazing gardeners themselves, will help plan and execute this year’s garden. We believe that this opportunity will help us grow together as we together grow a beautiful and productive garden.

We’ll plant on Saturday, May 22nd and 29th. We invite anyone in the ward who’d like to participate to contact our garden “waggle dancers” Benny Hall and Gary Johnson. They’ve taken on the name waggle dancers because they, like the honey bee, have the ability to tell others like themselves where, when, and what to do in the garden. So, be on the lookout for them and ask them to show you their dance moves.

Throughout the summer we ask that everyone participate as we grow together in the garden. Working together in good causes will build unity, purpose, and direction; can draw families closer together, and will bless our lives in more ways than just filling our stomachs.

Remember the words of King Benjamin when he said that it is wisdom to know that when we are serving our fellow beings (including our ward members) that we are really serving God. As we remember our Lord, serve others, and keep his commandments we will be blessed and prosper.

It is our prayer that the ward garden will help do this as we grow together.

The ward garden committee

Welcome!

Welcome to the Highland 10th Ward garden blog. Check the blog for:

Planting dates - May 22 and 29

Gardening tips - posted by the garden committee or other guest bloggers

Pictures of our workforce- ward members working in the garden

Garden Tours - coming in June, tour ward members gardens and see what they are doing

Work Schedules - please plan to help maintain our garden, it'll be fun!

Harvest Party - August 31 (tentatively)

and much, much more!