Celebrate Arbor Day at Scott Park This Saturday
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Cooking, Walking, Biking, & Garden Herbal Tea Party on the calendar
October 14, 2013 Leave a comment
The October air is invigorating isn’t it? Everyone in Decatur feels it too and they are out and about being active, which we love and applaud. If you need ideas to focus your outings, here are a few active options (and ALL are free) going on at the Rec Center in the next 7 days. Cooking class, Walk With a Doc, Bike Commuters breakfast, Garden tea party.
Simply Delicious
Simply Delicious: Healthy Food to Celebrate the Season. Wednesday morning join the fun and funky Wylde Center Chefs and learn scrumptious recipes, tips, and tricks to enjoy fall foods in this special free Living Greenclass at the Decatur Library. Wednesday October 16, 10:30-11:30am, Free.
Walk With A Doc
Walk With a Doc features Dr. Khurram Khan this week, an Assistant Professor Of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics from the Emory University School Of Medicine and the Wesley Woods Outpatient Center. See you every Wednesday for a walk at 11am including this week October 16 @11am, Free.
Bike to Work Commuter Breakfast is held in May and October, two delightful months to commute to work by bike. The challenge is issued by the Clean Air Campaign, Georgia Commute Options and local organizations interested in clean air, active transportation, and alternate travel modes., We’ll be out front on Sycamore Street at a table full of coffee, juice, and baked goodies from Java Monkey to encourage, reward, and support all those who choose to bike to work that day and stop by. Local partners in the Decatur bike community will be on hand to answer questions about gear, clothing, bikes, routes, bike buddies, tall tales and such. Here’s the facebook event for more info and if you will, RSVP so we’ll have just the right amount of refreshments. See you October 17 @7am-9am on your way to work, Free.
Scott Garden Herbal Tea Party is one week from today and YOU are invited! First our gardeners will meet on Saturday October 19 for a work day and get the garden all spiffed up. Then on Monday, we’ll entertain the public with herbal teas made from the garden bounty and host Amy Stewart, author of the Drunken Botanist, for a quick meet & greet prior to her book talk next door at the library which is presented by Georgia Center for the Book. Be sure to grab a free copy of our list of botanical cocktails available in downtown Decatur to guide you on your exploration. Here’s the facebook event for more info and please ‘like’ their page to follow them. Tea Party is at October 21 @6pm and book talk is at 715pm; both are Free.
Scott Garden Potluck Lunch Featured Local Homesteader Joey Zeigler
July 18, 2013 Leave a comment
Nature abhors a vacuum so put something in the ground or it will. The way Joey sees it, you just test your soil, re-mineralize it, and grow something! Joey Zeigler, a local homesteader shared his views on why he grows food and not just flowers, how good soil is the secret to success, and many other tips. The 2nd knuckle test determines if plants need water, cover crops or green manures hold your plot in the off season, portable chicken coops accomplish not only egg laying, but they spread your compost, add nitrogen to your soil, and eat insects.
At http://zeiglerhomesteadservices.com/about-joey/, Joey offers many services to get you on the path to growing your own food, noting of course that it takes half an acre to feed one person for a year. Most of us have less space than that but he can help you either way. He’s innovative in areas like rain barrels and develops solar based solutions to automate some garden tasks we all share.
In between speaking at the Paideia School and other community centers, Joey popped in for a potluck lunch that occurs monthly at the Decatur Rec Center, home to the Scott Park Garden. To reach him directly about speaking or homestead services, find him on his website or facebook and/or spreading the seed at the Wylde Center in Oakhurst. Http://zeiglerhomesteadservices.com/about-joey/
The Scott Park Garden is an organic community garden hosted by Decatur Active Living and although the garden is full, there is a waiting list and plots are $25/year. Contact Tracie Sanchez, Adult Program Leader for more info at tracie.sanchez@decaturga.com or 678-553-6559.
Thanks to Emory Volunteers Scott Garden Has Been Transformed
November 16, 2012 Leave a comment
Kathy Hightower gives thanks to Emory Volunteers:
In 3 hours on Saturday, November 10, Scott Garden (behind the City of Decatur Recreation Center) was transformed from a spooky, weed-encrusted ghost of a garden into a freshly weeded, pruned and prepped garden, near ready for spring planting. Twenty Emory student volunteers along with a half-dozen DeKalb Extension Service Master Gardeners and city volunteers raked, pulled and chopped away mountains of weeds that had accumulated in the almost two years that the garden has been closed while the city’s recreation center has been under a major renovation.
Scott’s gardeners and the city are extremely grateful to the Emory students who donated their time and energy on a beautiful autumn day to spiffing up this garden. It was dirty, dusty work and the spirit of the volunteers was always cheerful and industrious. The gardeners will be planning their spring plantings soon and this extreme volunteer effort will give them a head start for a successful season.
The community garden is under the auspices of the Decatur’s Active Living department with each of two dozen beds maintained by a city resident. The gardeners grow their own selection of annual and perennial vegetables, flowers, roses, shrubs and herbs. Several areas are maintained by the Master Gardener program as demonstration beds for native plants, a butterfly garden, and composting.
This is a DeKalb County Extension Service sponsored site with four Master Gardeners assigned to manage the community garden and lead educational efforts. DeKalb’s Extension Service sponsors some 20 Master Gardener sites in the county.
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