. . . at the Global Hope Garden

After a season of plentiful bounty, our GH Community Garden is winding down.  55 volunteers have tended our garden in so many wonderful ways – from weeding and watering to harvesting and delivering.

Downers Grove FISH Pantry and Downers Grove PADS have received almost 80 bags containing tomatoes, beans, squash, cucumbers, onions, beets, potatoes, peppers, radishes, etc to date.

Keith Kelly, Innovative Communications, filmed several volunteers gathering a morning’s harvest.  As always, Keith brilliantly captured the essence of GH at work.  Whether or not you’ve been out to visit the garden, this video is a must see!

With about 4 more weeks of growing season, there is still time to sign up to volunteer.  To peak your interest further, read volunteer, Beth Krueger’s, Voice of the Garden Newsletters here.

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Have you seen our Global Hope Garden recently?

We are sending a big shout out of THANKS to all our garden volunteers.
And, we have Theresa S-M. to thank for these pictures of how beautifully our garden grows thanks to all our helpers.

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Did you know that the Community Garden has a beautiful voice?  Check out the archived copies of our “Voice of the Garden” Newsletters for our 2010 Community Garden Project.  You will find them in our – Newsletter – Voice of the Garden Archives – page.

A big thanks to Beth Krueger for producing them this season.

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The Global Hope Community Garden
is open for plantin’, growin’ and pickin’

Join us:  Saturday, May 29th

The sun is out and our Community Garden calls.  All you “plant-lovin’, love to get your hands in the earth, anything to be outside” people – gather round.  Have we got a meeting for you!

We’ve got the vision, the wish list and a carefully planned maintenance schedule with opportunities galore to choose from.  You won’t want to miss this season-opener:

Volunteers . . . bring your gardening tools, bring your family and friends too!

WHEN: Saturday, 5/29 at 9:00 a.m.

WHERE: The Mar-Duke Farm garden plots are located at 67th and Saratoga (one block west of Main) Downers Grove – Look for our Global Hope “Fence Post” Sign!!

WHO: Anyone planning on helping with the garden this season. Everyone is welcome!  It’s never to late to jump in!

RSVP: Click Here for questions and to let us know you’d like to sign up to garden

If you’d like, here are a few things that you can help us with…

… Harvest containers – you know those plastic containers that hold store-bought fruit and veggies – save them please – they make it much easier to distribute harvest throughout the season
… Stakes and String – to partition and surround our growing space
… Stakes and labels – the veggies have asked for nametags – what can we say…
… 4ft poles for pole beans – a dozen
… Tomato cages – 20 of these
… Plants – we will need lots of “starter” plants to be ready to go in on 5/29.  Tomatoes, peppers, cukes, tomatillos, beans, yellow squash, zucchini are some favorites

…Dates to remember:

Saturday, May 29 - Planting Day Event

June 1st to October 2nd – Volunteer to play (and work!) in the garden

If you have any ideas or resources to help with this garden, please let us know.

Our desire is to create and maintain a thriving vegetable garden.
Our intention is to feed many, many families this summer.
Our hope is that you will join us in making it happen.

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Love to garden, you say?
Want to find some way to help others?
Don’t have time to do it all?
Look no more.

GLOBAL HOPE HAS THE SOLUTION

Spring fever has taken over as Global Hope sets plans into motion for the 2010 Community Garden – our second year growing and providing produce for local food pantries! We are looking for someone who likes to get their hands dirty – maybe enjoys a little conversation with plants.  You know who you are…

But there’s more.  Envision this:  a bountiful field abuzz with chatter as this plant-lovin’ gardener organizes and manages a rotating schedule of planting, watering and harvesting performed by many other eager volunteers.  Are you the volunteer leader for this year’s Community Garden project for Global Hope?

Which brings us to point #2.  We are looking for “Many Other Eager Volunteers” who will plant, water and harvest intermittently throughout the growing season (May-August).  Once – or weekly… whichever works will be greatly appreciated.  All our harvests will be donated.

Community Garden

* volunteers working together
* tending to our garden
* tending to our neighbors by providing healthy food for the less fortunate

Where?  Mar-Duke Farms
(67th & Saratoga in Downers Grove, IL)

Click here to volunteer and/or to get all of your questions answered!
Also, look for more information on this site as the season draws closer

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