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We will list:
- upcoming meetings
- events
- meeting minutes
- topics of interest
We will also be printing the "Bearing Fruit" articles by John Raifsnider as printed in the Julian News.
We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month in the Julian Library Community room at 4:00.
News:
BEARING FRUIT in June
“Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.” ~Russell Page
The spring sun has broken through the clouds in rivers of nourishing light. Soon its streams will be unleashed in broad waves to flood the land in summer. Seeds have become flowers, and flower petals are falling to yield their coming fruit. The green grasses are waving goodbye as they morph into golden hills and fields. And the ready gardeners are coming out to plant their sunlight seeds of hope into the waiting ground. Hail to the gardeners, the guardians of the thriving earth! You are the world’s messengers of happiness, goodwill and hope.
Julian’s Bearing Fruit Community Garden volunteers have been busy preparing space. Our two large garden plots off Orchard Lane in Wynola are taking shape. The land donated by Michael Hart and Michele Harvey and Albert and Lydia Lewis has seen fruit trees blossoming and planter boxes assembling. Daniel Jennings built 3 boxes and picked up and delivered 2 yards of topsoil to the garden sites. Liza Elkins donated the wood. Jim Mazzone provided a large roll of hardware cloth to protect the tender roots from munching furry faces underground. Michael and Monica Galina brought wood and tomato supports. Kathleen Beck, Laurel Granquist, Lorien Lehmer and others have been keeping the young things watered as the heat increases. Others are joining in and more are expected. Would you like to be one of them?
Come to our first working community garden meeting on Saturday, June 19th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. We will meet at the big garden plot behind Wynola Farms Market Place off Highway 78 at Orchard Lane, there to divide into work parties. Bring tools, gloves, drinking water, any seeds and seedlings and plants from home. Come with ideas for design, creative suggestions for funding, snacks and words to share. Let us speak not only of soil conditions and plant varieties but also soul conditions for hope and the benefits we are planting for individuals, families, local food outreach programs and the growing global gardening movement whose fruits we are bearing right here. Contact Kathleen at 760-765-2548 or Laurel at 760-765-0138 for more information, questions or offerings of garden donations.
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~Marcel Proust