Tricycle Gardens
Hi Everyone! Come on out this Saturday, Nov 13, 10am-2pm and lend a hand as we clean up the sidewalks, the yard, remove barbed wire, do some painting and general clean up at our new headquarters in Church Hill! Bring tools-especially big pliers and wire cutters and leather gloves to help remove the barbed wire. Flat shovels for scraping up the weeds in the sidewalk! Paint brushes and rollers! Or just come by and check out what we are up to. 2107 Jefferson Avenue, in Church Hill!
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Nov 14, 11am-4pm, we will be working on the Permaculture Forest Garden Installation at the Science Museum (head to the back of the museum, down DMV Drive). Please join us!
GET DIRTY!
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The farm is thriving with the cool weather! Come on over and check out our new hoop houses that are being installed. Our farm stand hours are currently Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:30. We will no longer have farm stand hours on Saturdays. It is time to plant winter greens which will produce in the fall and spring. We have kale and collard seedlings available for purchase. Vegetables ready for purchase: lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, mustard greens, green beans, basil, tomatoes, hot peppers (jalapenos, Thai hot peppers, Aji Dulce), eggplants, zinneas, and herbs cut to order: chives, marjoram, lavender, stevia, sage, lemon verbena, lemon grass, leeks, and parsnips. Come on over for fresh, delicious, vegetables!
-Allison
9th & Bainbridge Urban Farm : huge fun giant community workday TODAY! 10am-3pm. Help us build 2 hoop houses 16′x40′x10′! We will be growing veggies all winter, come out andhuge fun giant community workday TODAY! 10am-3pm. Help us build 2 hoop houses 16′x40′x10′! We will be growing veggies all winter, come out and learn about urban agriculture & git dirty! learn about urban agriculture & git dirty!
Chimborazo Community Garden : Build more beds, general clean, fall maintenance and good people getting dirty!
please join us, lend a hand, or just come out and say hello!
Over the next couple of weeks, Tricycle Gardens is renovating and upgrading an old gas station at the base of Church Hill. The new HQ will house our administrative offices, a workshop, a small retail space, and 6000 SF of an outdoor living classroom, for all kinds of learning about how to grow food in an urban setting, to increase an understanding of ecology, and our relationship with the local and global eco-systems. Please stop by and say hello!
What is 350? 350 is what climate scientist agree needs to be the PPM (parts per million)of carbon dioxiode in the atmosphere. Currently we are at 392 PPM, and rising. Prior to the 10/10/10, we are organizing an awareness campaign. Please join us by hanging a clothesline in your front yard. We will provide t-shirts painted with 350 to hang on your line. For $20 you get 3 t-shirts, clothes pins and clothes line. Stop by the 9th & B Farmstand, Tuesdays 4-7pm & Thursdays 4-7pm, and Saturdays 9-12am, or call Elli Sparks (804.475-6775) to arrange a pick up.
Then on 10/10/10, head on over to Tricycle Garden’s urban farm on Bainbridge and 9th Streets to visit a climate success story. We will spend the morning from 10 am – 1 pm preparing Richmond’s first urban farm for its winter hoop houses. After we’re done working, we’ll head on over to the Richmond Folk Festival, which is only a 15 minute walk from Tricycle Garden’s urban farm. Walk, bike, ride the bus, or car-pool to our event.
This is the innovation we are talking about!
Sunday, October 3 · 11:00am – 7:00pm
Join us for the most important day in the building of Richmond’s first-ever Permaculture demonstration garden! We will be digging two swales for water catchment and storage, and planting an assortment of baby trees, bushes, grasses, flowers, and other plants- all of which are either native, edible, medicinal, or any combination thereof. Everything is being done with an eye for longevity and low maintenance. This project will evolve greatly over time as the perennial plants grow, and this is your chance to say that you were there at the very beginning of a new page in the life of the Science Museum and gardening as we know it in Richmond!
Directions- going west along Broad Street, take a right onto DMV drive, following the signs for the recycling center. Take a left into the parking lot behind the SMVA right before the light- you will see a wooden three-rail fence at the end of the lot. That is where we are!
See you there!!
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