The Ridgecrest Community Garden, board president Tyrone Ledford, was presented the Ridgecrest Community award by the Ridgecrest Area Association of Realtors. Award was presented in recognition of outstanding contributions and dedication to the health of the Ridgecrest area community. We appreciate all the love and continued support we have received. Your love and support continue to uplift and motivate us, and we are honored to have such a strong support system! We look forward to more involvement with the community as the gardening season progresses.
The Urban Farmer planting calendar suggests that our last frost date will be 1 March in 2023, so we will not be spring planting before that date. In preparing for that, we are changing the hours of the Community Garden to be closed during the month of February, except to subscribers and scheduled events. So, for the month of February, the garden will not be unlocked on the weekends. We will publish new open hours for the garden in our March Newsletter. For the time being, the garden will only be unlocked when a team member can be present to assure appropriate use of the garden space and maximize garden benefits to the community.
We now have added four new subscriber beds to the Ridgecrest Community Garden configuration. Subscriber beds now total 25 to allow more of the Community to grow and sustain a part of their food supply through this wonderful resource. Please visit this link https://www.holisticdivineinnovations.org/subscriber-program to get more information, sign up for a bed or to sponsor someone else that may not have the financial resources to pay, but would still like to garden.
We will be holding a BYOnd Sprouts event (Bring Yourself Only and Decide (BYOnd) to Eat it or Plant it) on February 25th, from 10 to 12. We will be providing the sprouts, soil and containers, or you can bring your own container to nurture your sprout indoors until our frost date is past. Location will be at the garden, 231 W. Haloid St.
If you are interested in contributing or volunteer opportunities, you can email us at communitygarden.ridgecrest@gmail.com. If you are a subscriber and would like to see your bed featured in a future newsletter, along with an interview on your “why” for gardening, please send a message via Facebook messenger to Ridgecrest Community Garden.
We continue to offer woodchips for a donation of any amount of $5 or more. Follow these simple steps when needing woodchips.
1) Donate desired amount through Holistic Divine Innovations at this link https://www.holisticdivineinnovations.org/donations or scan one of the QR codes to the left to support
2) Send Ridgecrest Community Garden a message on Facebook to designate how many bags are needed
3) Community member will be given instructions and address for pickup in the response. Woodchips are at a separate location from the garden due to space constraints.
Zen out, Ridgecrest 😊