Preparing the Garden for the Winter 2009

KATHY is our new Environmental Ministry Garden Group Co-Chair along with JULIE. Thank you, Kathy and Julie, for serving the community in this way. Special thanks to Allison and Julie for all their work this past year in keeping our garden moving forward, obtaining a GRANT - no less, and we did it with less water and no critter visitors either! I'd call that a HUGE success.

At the end of October, Kathy, Janette, and Jim worked on preparing the garden for Winter. They set up two hoop houses to experiment with growing all winter long. Janette transplanted some of her hardiest chard while Kathy set up the hoops.

Jim worked on setting up the plastic covering and insulating the space with leaves provided by Layne.

And, while Cynthea harvested vegetables and fruit for Friendship Manor, Joan lurked in the shadows taking pictures.