WORK PARTIES
Sue Colson and Heath Davis, city commissions, and Mandy Offerle (center), owner of lot.
Community Work Days are the mainstay of the Community Garden. This website page will tell you: first, about our most recent Work Day; second, our initial Work Days when we established the garden; third, follow-up Work Days that continue to occur as we need/want them. Each day is laden with good company, food, drink, and many smiles.
2019 NOVEMBER 9 WORK DAY
GARDENERS RAISE CAIN…RAISE HELL….OOPS, RAISE BEDS!
GARDENERS RAISE BEDS NOVEMBER 10, 2019
As the Cedar Key Community Garden’s newest gardener prefers a raised bed because of his “not so great back,” the community of gardeners met on Saturday, November 9, to raise his, and one other ground level bed, to waist height. No mean feat that.
The bed raising requires substantial planning, expertise, lots of muscle, patience, and, of course, camaraderie and moral support. The planning and supplying of materials, lumber, screening, tools, electricity, soil, and more were ably supplied by Tom Deverin and Joe Hand. The lots of muscle, more expertise, and camaraderie came from Frank Patillo, Bill Seyfarth, John McPerson and his visiting brother, Sam Gibbs, “Gino,” and Beth Dieveney. Moral support was amply supplied by Linda and Colin Dale, Becky LaFountain, Lois Benningoff, and Brenda.
While the bed raising group dislodged the extant two ground-level beds, turned them upside down, built new bases of screening, scaffolding, and legs, others accomplished some cleanup work. Frank Patillo, Bill Seyfarth, and Tom Deverin trimmed the hedges along the Second Street border, thus allowing more light during the winter months and a welcoming glimpse into the garden from the street. More clean up was in the capable hands of Becky and Colin and Linda. Lois and Becky cleaned up the path through the length of the Garden, picking up weeds and allowing the shell base to reshow itself.
Pat Deverin thinned and weeded the community bed, allowing the soon-to-be-ready transplants to flourish. The Dales, Becky, Mandy Offerle, and others took some time to weed and care for their own beds.
Not a moment from nine am until noon was wasted. The two newly reconstructed beds were set in place, leveled, refilled with soil, and one was replanted.
A most productive day it was. The weather could not have been more perfect; the company could not have been better.
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GARDENERS RAISE BEDS NOVEMBER 10, 2019
As the Cedar Key Community Garden’s newest gardener prefers a raised bed because of his “not so great back,” the community of gardeners met on Saturday, November 9, to raise his, and one other ground level bed, to waist height. No mean feat that.
The bed raising requires substantial planning, expertise, lots of muscle, patience, and, of course, camaraderie and moral support. The planning and supplying of materials, lumber, screening, tools, electricity, soil, and more were ably supplied by Tom Deverin and Joe Hand. The lots of muscle, more expertise, and camaraderie came from Frank Patillo, Bill Seyfarth, John McPerson and his visiting brother, Sam Gibbs, “Gino,” and Beth Dieveney. Moral support was amply supplied by Linda and Colin Dale, Becky LaFountain, Lois Benningoff, and Brenda.
While the bed raising group dislodged the extant two ground-level beds, turned them upside down, built new bases of screening, scaffolding, and legs, others accomplished some cleanup work. Frank Patillo, Bill Seyfarth, and Tom Deverin trimmed the hedges along the Second Street border, thus allowing more light during the winter months and a welcoming glimpse into the garden from the street. More clean up was in the capable hands of Becky and Colin and Linda. Lois and Becky cleaned up the path through the length of the Garden, picking up weeds and allowing the shell base to reshow itself.
Pat Deverin thinned and weeded the community bed, allowing the soon-to-be-ready transplants to flourish. The Dales, Becky, Mandy Offerle, and others took some time to weed and care for their own beds.
Not a moment from nine am until noon was wasted. The two newly reconstructed beds were set in place, leveled, refilled with soil, and one was replanted.
A most productive day it was. The weather could not have been more perfect; the company could not have been better.
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2018 DECEMBER 1 WORK DAY
NEITHER RAIN, NOR CHILL, NOR GLOOM OF CLOUDS,* WILL STOP THE GARDENERS
December 2, 2018
The Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center staff provided a welcoming setting yesterday for the Cedar Key Community Gardeners who had much to do but were temporarily rained out of their own territory, the Garden itself.
The Chamber’s hot coffee, the Deverin’s cake, the Offerle’s fruit, and Dale’s chocolate bon-bons helped make the tasks as delightful as the company and the small and cozy setting.
The group filled seed packets for the Tom Deverin-inspired Cedar Key Community Garden’s Seed Give-Away Program. The program operates out of a station at the front, south, end of the Garden. A sign there invites visitors to take, plant, and enjoy as many as three different kinds of vegetable or flower seeds; if they wish to make donations, a receptacle is there to facilitate the exchange. The donations have been wonderfully successful; they have allowed the Community Garden to pay for its insurance and its water bills for the past year.
The camera man had an obviously bad day behind the lens, thus only two pictures and those two failed to capture at least six or seven folks.
*The real, often quoted, but unofficial Post Office motto is: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
December 2, 2018
The Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center staff provided a welcoming setting yesterday for the Cedar Key Community Gardeners who had much to do but were temporarily rained out of their own territory, the Garden itself.
The Chamber’s hot coffee, the Deverin’s cake, the Offerle’s fruit, and Dale’s chocolate bon-bons helped make the tasks as delightful as the company and the small and cozy setting.
The group filled seed packets for the Tom Deverin-inspired Cedar Key Community Garden’s Seed Give-Away Program. The program operates out of a station at the front, south, end of the Garden. A sign there invites visitors to take, plant, and enjoy as many as three different kinds of vegetable or flower seeds; if they wish to make donations, a receptacle is there to facilitate the exchange. The donations have been wonderfully successful; they have allowed the Community Garden to pay for its insurance and its water bills for the past year.
The camera man had an obviously bad day behind the lens, thus only two pictures and those two failed to capture at least six or seven folks.
*The real, often quoted, but unofficial Post Office motto is: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
2018 NOVEMBER 7 WORK DAY
Some twenty Cedar Key Community Gardeners gathered Wednesday morning from 9 am to noon to spruce up the Cedar Key Community Garden after a long, hot summer. Thinking November 7 would be cooler than that summer, the group was surprised at the 85-degree weather. Not a cloud was in the sky, however; it was a beautiful day.
In addition to tending to their own beds, the gardeners, under the leadership of Tom Deverin, also tended to communal garden needs. Bill Rucker, the man with the power tools, trimmed the Second Street hedges and the trellis’s vines and brush beginning to obscure the sun from the west beds. Denise Feiber and Renee Schneck hauled away his cuttings.
The arduous task of cleaning up and weeding the center path that runs from the south to the north of the Garden was managed by Colin Dale, Russ and Peg Hall, Renee and Dennis Schneck , and Denise.
In addition to tending to their own beds, the gardeners, under the leadership of Tom Deverin, also tended to communal garden needs. Bill Rucker, the man with the power tools, trimmed the Second Street hedges and the trellis’s vines and brush beginning to obscure the sun from the west beds. Denise Feiber and Renee Schneck hauled away his cuttings.
The arduous task of cleaning up and weeding the center path that runs from the south to the north of the Garden was managed by Colin Dale, Russ and Peg Hall, Renee and Dennis Schneck , and Denise.
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