Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Creation Care Ministry Team mentioned in Kirkwood-Webster Patch article
We are so blessed to have a wonderful article published on the Kirkwood-Webster Patch website about our green team. Take a look!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Earth Day is on Good Friday!
22nd Annual St. Louis Earth Day Festival
You are invited to “Be the Change” in honor of this year’s
Earth Day celebration on Sunday, April 17, from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. on the Muny Grounds of Forest Park.
Enjoy two stages of live music, cultural performances,
local food and hands-on activities for the whole family at
the 22nd Annual St. Louis Earth Day Festival. Over 200
artists, educational exhibitors, food vendors, businesses
and organizations will share how they are “Being the
Change”, and how you can too!
Community Garden Details
With the idea of a community garden a year ago at one of our Creation Care Ministry meetings, came also the big question of: How are we going to go about this? St. Matthews in Warson Woods was a great help in terms of example and viable information. They have now 6 plots 4x8 sqf and have been through one successful growing season. Our parishioner, Charlie Moley, was incidentally looking for an Eagle Scout Project and decided on a community garden. How perfect is that? A wonderful God incident, is what I call it! We will follow the square foot garden approach as much as we can since it's the easiest way to grow lots of food in small spaces.
Our soil will be a mix of compost (hopefully free horse manure), peat moss and vermiculite.
We have raised some monies to start us on the building of the structures. We are planning on 4 4x8 raised beds on the south side of the playground by the handicap parking.
There are still lots of open questions which we will address at our next meeting, this Sunday, April 17th at 11:20. Please come and join us. Brainstorming makes it possible!
Our soil will be a mix of compost (hopefully free horse manure), peat moss and vermiculite.
We have raised some monies to start us on the building of the structures. We are planning on 4 4x8 raised beds on the south side of the playground by the handicap parking.
There are still lots of open questions which we will address at our next meeting, this Sunday, April 17th at 11:20. Please come and join us. Brainstorming makes it possible!
THANK YOU for your donations to the Community Garden
A big thank you to Charlie Moley, who created a superb poster to present in Albright Hall for sponsorships of garden plots.
We have raised over $450 that way! The congregation is really excited and will be blown away but all the produce God will grow. We are so blessed to be able to do this with all the help we are receiving from the congregation, the vestry and interested community members. Plant sales also went well. The Holgates and McDowells received over $400 worth of donations for their tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, basil and many more species! We still have to raise more donations, since the irrigation alone is quite costly.
We have raised over $450 that way! The congregation is really excited and will be blown away but all the produce God will grow. We are so blessed to be able to do this with all the help we are receiving from the congregation, the vestry and interested community members. Plant sales also went well. The Holgates and McDowells received over $400 worth of donations for their tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, basil and many more species! We still have to raise more donations, since the irrigation alone is quite costly.
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