Updates from the Morse Garden

The fall is a great time for gardening!!! Although the cold of winter is quickly setting in, students (and parents) harvested some lettuce from the Morse Garden for the school Thanksgiving Feast!

Below, a first grade class is tending to and harvesting lettuce, spinach, and garlic, that will be ready next spring.

Sleepy Hollow Middle School Garden

Below are pictures of the SHMS Kitchen Garden's newly built raised bed. It's location outside of the cafeteria make it perfect for plans to supply salad greens to our students come spring.

The existing vegetable bed with some very hardy Swiss Chard still growing.

The butterfly garden.

WI Greenhouse

Plant beds at the Washington Irving Greenhouse.

WI 5th grade students learning about soil and compost.

The kids have begun to amend the beds with compost from Stone Barns Center and test for the proper pH before they begin to plant their seeds.

Come Help Us Put the Valley Street Garden to Bed for the Winter

Come out and help the Sleepy Hollow Community Garden Coalition and your neighbors prepare the the Valley Street garden for the winter. Please meet at the garden (behind 100 College Ave) from 10:00 am to noon this Saturday, November 6th to help out! No gardening experience required! If you have any questions, feel free to email us at shcommunitygardencoalition@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you!

The Bounty of Our County

Below are just a few pictures from Sleepy Hollow Community Gardens and Slow Food Westchester's benefit, "The Bounty of Our County" held in Tarrytown on October 16, 2010.


Doug DeCandia pressing fresh apple cider with an old wooden press!



Almost 200 people attended this beautiful event!

Steve and Evan of "Off the Hook" whole animal cookery and catering roasted a whole pig. Below they are seasoning and preparing the pig!

Steve and Evan carving the pig! (OffTheHookCatering@gmail.com)

Thanks to everyone who attended this wonderful event!

It Takes A Village To Plant A Garden

Preparing for the Morse Community Garden Opening

We harvested eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, kale, basil, sage, rosemary, oregano and thyme to bring to the opening of our latest community garden at Morse School on Beekman Street.

Remember when we planted lettuce at the end of August?

It gave us an opportunity to photograph the not quite end of season on Valley Street. Soon we'll be planting a cover crop on some of the beds and truly putting the garden to bed for the winter.

Check back to find out when you can come help with the garden cleanup.

Morse School Community Garden Grand Opening

Dig In and Dig it!

How does your garden grow?

With lots of help from our community!

Join teachers, students and parents on

September 25th from 4:00-5:30

as we plant seeds in the new

Morse School Vegetable Garden.

For more information or to volunteer

please email www.shcommunitygardencoalition@gmail.com

This event is in conjunction with Slow Foods, Sleepy Hollow Community Garden Coalition, Morse School and the Sleepy Hollow Downtown Revitalization Corporation.

Preparing for Winter

Even in the heat we are working in the garden and cleaning it up for winter. It's hard to believe we are preparing for winter when it's almost ninety degrees out but it will be here before we know it. Stop by the garden 5-6 on weekdays to help us clean up, we promise it's actually fun.

Planting Lettuce

Yesterday in the garden we pulled out dying cucumbers and zucchini and replanted the beds with lettuce. Hopefully the lettuce will grow quickly and we will be able to harvest it before the weather gets really cold.

Here is the bed right before we planted it with lettuce but right after we pulled out the zucchini.
Here a young garden visitor holds up mesculin lettuce mix seeds.

New Growth in the Garden

There are new things popping up in the garden and it's very exciting! Our first Cosmos flower showed up recently which is great. Hopefully more will show up in the next few days.

Here is a young tomatillo, maybe we can harvest it and the others on the plant soon.

Come help out at the garden from 5-6 on weekdays, soon we are going to start preparing the garden for winter.

Just Another Rainy Monday

Although it was an overcast day, we were able to squeeze in some time at the garden to deadhead the marigolds and pick some fresh basil. Worried that the rain wouldn't come (even though it ended up pouring about 20 minutes later), a few garden visitors watered, just in case!

Tomato Festival

The Tomato Festival was a huge success! People came and enjoyed zucchini bread, cucumber soup, gazpacho, and the garden itself. Tomatoes were picked as well as giant zucchini, huge eggplant, and some onions.

Check out our website for more pictures. Hope you can come to our next event!

Updates and Reminders

Just a reminder that the Tomato Festival will be held this SUNDAY at 4PM in the garden located behind the 100 College Arms apartment building. We look forward to seeing you!

Also, we just launched our new website!!! Check it out here.

Friday Campers

The YMCA camp made its last trip to the garden this past Friday. The campers enjoyed coloring their favorite part of the garden (flowers and cucumbers were at the top of most lists) and got to taste tomatoes and cucumbers. It was a great day in the garden which ended with a VERY successful open house and more coloring. Here are a few pictures...

Tomato Fesitval Reminder

Come to the garden this Sunday at 4pm to pick and taste some yummy tomatoes!!!! Bring your friends and families and let's enjoy, together, a late afternoon in the garden!

Tasty Treats

Today, the campers enjoyed picking their own cucumber and bell pepper. They also enjoyed tasting them! We were so excited to see them enjoy the fresh produce, some for the very first time!

Tuesday Open House

What a great day to sit back and enjoy the garden! Today, a few lucky visitors watered the growing plants (and themselves). They are all eagerly waiting for Sunday so that they can harvest some ripe tomatoes!

Garden Update

Some how.... we don't know how... it is August! How time passes this quickly, we will never know but here is something we do know...

...there have been a lot of exciting and tasty experiences in the community garden this July and the SHCGC would like to share a few of them with you.

Peppers!

And more peppers!

Massive eggplant!

Chinese Celery!

Tomatoes!

Cucumbers!

Okra!

For the latest tasting experience, join us weekdays from 5-6 or this Sunday at 4 for some fresh treats!

Tomato Festival Update

Hi Y'all!

The SHCGC is proud to announce that the 100 College Arms Community Garden will be hosting a Tomato Festival on
Sunday, August 8th at 4pm.

Stop by the garden to help harvest tomatoes and taste some yummy (fresh and locally grown in the garden) treats!

Another sunny week in the garden

Along with a lot of sun, the garden has had a ton of visitors this week. Some mothers and daughters got to take home our first harvest of eggplant (!) as well as zucchini, cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes and herbs!


And, another group of campers enjoyed making leaf rubbings, almost as much as they loved spraying themselves with the hose.

Sunflowers

The garden is pleased to announce the arrival of its first sunflowers!! They just started to bloom and haven begun to add a bright blast of color to the very green garden.

Today in the Garden

Today, a handful of campers used leaves, picked from the garden, to produce their own leaf rubbings. The campers also had the opportunity to try a ripe plum tomato (and they LOVED them!).



Just another exciting day in the 100 College Arms Garden... we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!