growing people newsletter - summer 2007

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Ever Growing

Frigid rain, biting wind, and

overall miserable weather could

not keep committed GICD

volunteers and a few die-hard

plant enthusiasts from attending

the first day of our plant sale on

Saturday, April 14, at the East

Dallas Community and Market

Garden. Though sales that first

day were slow, by Sunday, and

for next weeks Plot Against

Hunger Sale at Our Saviour

Garden, the weather was beau-

tiful and a steady stream of

visitors purchased vegetables,

herbs and bedding plants.

Overall this years 12th an-

nual fundraising GICD plant

sale raised over $5000 for our

educational programs. A spe-

cial attraction each year are

tomato, pepper and herb plants

grown by our staff and volun-

teers.

Many thanks go to all those

who volunteered to work at

the sale, making this years sale

one of the most profitable

ever. Special thanks go to our

corporate sponsors and indi-

viduals whose donations of

plants, a gift basket, and gift

certificates make this fundrais-

ing sale possible. Business do-

nors included: Blue Ribbon

Lady Landscaping, Bruce

Miller Nursery, Naud Bur-

nett at Casa Flora, Vickery

Nursery, Green Lake Nurs-

ery, Oak Tree Nursery, Rui-

bals Plants of Texas, Jimmys

Food Store, Calloways at

Greenville Ave., Smith & Haw-

kins, and NorthHaven Nursery.

Individuals who contributed

plants and a gift basket included:

Cathi Haug, Sibyl Koss, and

Patsy Aguilera.

A very special thank you goestoYC Nursery that had originally

promised 100 flats of bedding

plants, but sent over 200 flats for

the sale.

GICD Plant Sale A Success

Gardeners In Community Development

GICD WISH LIST:

garden benches

garden tool shed

new lap top computer

wheelbarrows

gardening tools

canning jars

Mantis tiller

Kubota tractor with

loader and tiller

friends with trucks

volunteers

Mission: improving the quality of life in neighborhoods through community gardening

Summer 2007 Dallas Area Community Gardening

Hope Garden on Water Wise TourApproximately 70 people

visited Hope Community Gar-

den during the 12th Annual

Dallas Water Utilities Water

Wise Tour on Saturday, June

2, 2007.

One of five Water Wise

(Xeriscape) award winners last

year, Hope Garden can now

participate each year in the

tour as a demonstration gar-

den. Visitors toured the gar-

den, talked to gardeners and

volunteers, learned about do-

nating fresh produce to food

pantries, and were shown the

use of water-wise techniques in

the home vegetable garden.

Many visitors were amazed to

learn that in a 40x60 plot, Hope

Garden had donated over 2000

pounds of freshly harvested pro-

duce to area food pantries in

2006.

Gardeners In Community Development

901 Greenbriar Lane

Richardson, TX 75080

www,gardendallas.org

Whats in this issue:

True Blue Friends 2

New Fence 2

D Magazine 2

APEX 3

New Gardens 3

Garden Gleanings 4

Heifer Volunteers 5

Starbucks 6


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True Blue Friends

New Fence At East DallasCommunity and Market Garden

Asian Gardeners Featured in D Magazine

The Blue Bird of Happiness

is singing a thank you to the

youth group from Preston

Hollow Presbyterian Church

for making bird houses during

GICDs Blue Bird NestboxProject.

On Saturday, June 16,

GICD volunteer carpenters,

A.L. Nickerson, Michael

Brown, and their apprentices,

Andrew Brown and Michael

Smith, precut 40 cedar bird-

houses. Then on June 26th,

37 youth and 4 adults from

Preston Hollow Presbyterian

Church volunteered all day at

Our Saviour Garden. Theyweeded, mulched, reworked

the compost pile, and learned

about GICD, community gar-

dening and Heifer Interna-

tional and constructed 27

bird houses. It was like a

their life and what they grow in

the garden. The article in-

cluded photographs and a brief

explanation of how to use

green pepper, edible canna,

and bitter melon in Southeast

Asian cooking. Congratula-

tions to these three women

whose stories of loss and tri-

umph are representative of all

refugee farmers.

The gardeners of the East Dallas

Garden and Market

The East Dallas Commu-

nity and Market Garden and

three of its gardeners were

featured in a two page article in

the June 2007 edition ofD

Magazine. The magazine had

as its theme Eat Local. In an

article written by Sarah Eveans

and photographed by Eliza-

beth Lavin, gardeners Sophorn

Moeul, Nang Ting, and

Chhuen Chung told about

from various businesses, in-

cludingHome Depot ,

and a matching grant of $500

from GICD, members of the

church worked for several days

constructing the fence only

to have to rebuild it the next

week after someone drove into

it. That is the true spirit of

giving and volunteering.

Members of the Dallas

11th Elders Quorum of the

Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-Day Saints replaced

the small, dilapidated fence at

the main entrance of the Asian

garden with a new, beautiful

fence which accents the en-

trance to the garden and beau-

tifies the street and neighbor-hood. With in-kind donations

In a sense, this [the

Asian Garden] is the

only farmers market we

have, it is truly farm to

table.

- Don Lambert in D Magazine

Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 2Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flash .net

Fresh From the East DallasCommunity and Market Garden

Dallas hot, humid summers allow most Asian

vegetables to thrive at the East Dallas Commu-

nity and Market Garden. Starting now look for

amaranth greens, basil, bitter melons, eggplant,

ivy leaf gourd tips, lemon grass, long beans, loo-

fah, Malabar spinach, peppers, snake gourds, taro

stems, water spinach, and wax gourds.

The East Dallas Community and Market Gar-

den is located at 1416 N. Fitzhugh and is openevery day. In general, bunches

of freshly harvested produce cost

$1.00 each. Saturday and Sunday

mornings are the busiest times,

with some specialty produce sell-

ing out quickly.

Ripe Snake Gourd

Before

Habitat for Humanity build

for our feathered friends.

The bird houses will be

used to support wildlife in our

gardens and extras will be soldfor $10.00 each. Contact Re-

becca at (214) 564-5801.

After

Did You See?

Hope Community Garden,its gardeners, and an inter-

view with Don Lambert on

Fox 4 TV.


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New Community Gardens

Grocery Stores Reward Cards Support GICDKnow of a

communitygarden?

GICD would like to puttogether a list of all thecommunity gardens inNorth Texas. Sendinformation [email protected].

Don Lambert, Executive

Director of GICD, and Re-

becca Smith, Education Assis-

tant, have been busy this spring

consulting with and helping toestablish several new commu-

nity gardens throughout Dallas.

One garden, the UTD Stu-

dent Community Garden

was dedicated in May and is

already producing produce for

the students and donating to

area food banks. Also in con-

junction with a UTD Alterna-

tive Spring Break Program,

several students along with our

staff helped low income fami-lies build gardens in their own

back yards to grow produce for

their families.

Don and Rebecca have also

played a major consulting role

in the establishment ofGreen-

hill Schools on-campus gar-

den, which will be used as an

educational laboratory for thestudents.

In addition, several area

churches, includingSt. Tho-

mas Episcopal Church, have

consulted with us about start-

ing donation gardens. What a

good time to be involved in

community gardening.

Asian Professional Ex-

change of Dallas (APEX), an

organization of Asian Profes-

sionals, has adopted the East

Dallas Community and Market

Garden as one of their on-goingservice projects. Over the past

year they helped during work-

days and donated new wheelbar-

rows and tools to the garden.

Working side by side with the

older Asian gardeners has been a

positive experience for both

groups as these young profes-

To link your Tom Thumb re-

ward card with GICD, just fill

out a Good Neighbor Applica-

tion Form at the Customer

Service Desk with GICDs

Tom Thumb account num-

ber 6714. Then just be sure

and use your reward card every

time you shop.

And, if you are a Kroger

Do you shop for groceries?

Of course!! Well, if you shop

at Tom Thumb or Kroger,

heres a quick and painless way

to support GICD at no cost to

you. Just link your Tom

Thumb or Kroger reward

cards to GICDs organization

and a percentage of your pur-

chase price will automatically

be donated to us.

shopper, pick up a Kroger

Share Card from Don Lam-

bert or Rebecca Smith, or con-

tact GICD at 972-231-3565 or

[email protected]. We will

happy to send you a card,

along with our many thanks.

What could be an easier way

to support GICD and commu-

nity gardening in Dallas!!

Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 3Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flas h.net

Formoreinfor

mation

goto:www.communit

ygarden.org

sionals demonstrate such respect for

their heritage and elders. Both the

gardeners and GICD thank APEX

for their support and involvement.

Area Community

Gardens on the web:

Coppell Community Garden:

www.coppellcommunity garden.com

Education Community Garden at Dallas:

www.educationcommunitygarden.org

Gardeners in Community Development:

www.gardendallas.org

Plano Community Garden

www.jlplano.orgclick on outreach projects

APEX Adopts Asian Gardens

APEX volunteers working in the garden

Greenhill School garden


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Garden Gleanings:

From Seedlings toMature Gardeners,

GICD Cultivates

Them All

Planting the Childrens Garden

at Hope which is sponsored by

Susan and Brandon Pollard

East Dallas Gardener

Hope gardener Myrna

Gorchoff with pantry

donations

Worm class for Growing

and Giving science club

Senior harvesters from

Cathedral Gardens

Amanda Brown teaching

youth from Fireside

Recreation Center


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Marys interaction with the children with

their many props and Marys wearing a hat

in the shape of a cow is a delight for both

the children and adults.

Mary also, while on a trip to visit the

Heifer project in the Hopi nation, brought

back authentic Hopi corn seeds to plant a

Three Sisters Garden. This native Ameri-

can method of gardening features corn,

squash and beans that live in harmony

with one another and are the primary

crops of the native American people. The

Hopi corn is planted at the East Dallas

Community and

Market Garden to

honor this heri-

tage and both

Hope and Our

Saviour gardens

have planted

variations on this

native American

way of gardening.

A faithful band of enthu-

siastic Heifer Volunteers

play an important role in

GICD gardening pro-

jects. GICD is one of Heifers North

American Urban Agricultural Pro-

jects, and the only Heifer sponsored

Urban Agricultural project in North

Texas. In particular, Our Saviours

Plot Against Hunger project has be-

come dear to Metroplex Heifer Vol-

unteer hearts.

Under the capable and fun-loving

leadership ofMary Ridgway , DFW

Area Heifer Volunteer Coordinator,

volunteers are passing on the gift

by participating in our workdays and

by holding occasional Heifer volun-

teer meetings in the parish hall at Our

Saviour. In addition, Mary and Paula

Scott have presented several pro-

grams about Heifer International to

children at both Our Saviour and

Hope gardens. Watching Paulas and

Passing On The Gift

By their fruits, ye shall know them

Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 5Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flas h.net

A Basketful of Thanks To

GICDs Fantastic Gardeners and Wonderful Volunteers

Whats Sprouting?Up and Coming Events

at GICD

Starting A Community Garden- TBA

Tiahs Canning Classes TBA

Master Composter Class TBA

2008 Plant Sale April 19 & 20

.. and more to come..

As part of the generous grant from

Heifer International to GICDs DallasUrban Gardening Initiative Project

over 100 fruit and nut trees, as well as

berries and grapes, have been planted

at Our Saviours Plot Against Hunger.

In a few years, this planting will pro-

vide fresh fruit and nuts for the food pan-

tries.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who

have worked on this project. They dug

holes (in both last years drought and this

years monsoon season), planted, mulched

and watered the trees.

Digging the holes

Boy Scout Troop 783hand watered the trees

throughout the drought of 2006

Gardeners in Community Development

A 501 c (3) Non-Profit Organization

Board of Directors

Cathi Haug, President

Amanda Brown, Vice President

Carolyn Bush, Secretary

A.L. Nickerson, Treasurer

Patsy Aguilera Azenath Wright

Don Lambert, Executive Director

Support Community Gardening

Your tax-deductible donation will support

GICDs community gardening program. Any

and all donations are gratefully accepted!!

Please make your check payable to: GICD

Send to 901 Greenbriar Lane, Richardson,

TX 75080

Mary and heifer


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Harvest

Donation

1943 pounds

Next time you are in Starbucks ordering your

favorite latte, you can remember that you are

supporting GICD as well as many other non-

profit organizations. Through Starbucks

Make Your Markprogram, volunteer time is

matched with money and donated to partici-pating non-profits. Over the past year, Star-

bucks has donated over $4000 to GICD. So

have another cup of Starbucks coffee (or tea)

and know that you are supporting our pro-

grams.

Our champion in this effort is Cathi

Haug, a star Starbucks employee, who at-

tended one GICD workday and got hooked on

community gardening. In addition to coordi-

nating Starbucks volunteer projects, she has

her own garden plot at Our Saviour Garden.

In 2006 Cathi won the coveted GICD Volun-teer of the Year award. As our pickle lady

she raised money selling her own homemade

pickles and donated the profits to GICD. In

addition she grew over 100 Texas Wild toma-

toes to sell at our plant sale, and is now our

board president. She even changed her email

address to gardens2give. Now that is an exam-

ple of a true volunteer and we cant thank

her enough for her enthusiasm, commitment

and time.

Starbucks Supports GICD

Gardeners In Community Development Ever Growing

901 Greenbriar Lane

Richardson, TX 75080

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Barbara Baughman (left) and Cathi Haug (right) selling

Cathis homemade pickles at Starbucks

Produce harvestedfor food pantries in

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