Cottage City Community Garden is hosting a Fall Clean-Up with the Port Towns Youth Council (PTYC) on Saturday, October 8th, between 9am 12pm. All are welcome to volunteer and help us continue to improve the Cottage City Community Garden. Middle School and High School students can receive service-learning credit for their participation. The PTYC will be weeding and spreading mulch … Continue reading Cottage City Garden Fall Clean-Up
Did you know when you save seeds from your garden that you are helping to preserve history? On Saturday, August 13, Mark Haskell of Friends and Foods taught the Cottage City Gardeners about Seed Saving. Traditional American foods are a hybrid of African, South American, European, and North American plants. Yams, okra, chilies, peanuts, and … Continue reading Seeds of Change: Seed Saving Workshop
Saturday, August 13th at 10am Cottage City Community Garden 4222 Cottage Terrace Cottage City, MD 20722 Cost: FREE! Join the Cottage City Community Garden for a workshop on seed saving! Chef and Master Gardener Mark Haskell will discuss why seed saving matters and teach basic techniques in growing, harvesting, storing and saving seeds from your … Continue reading Seed Saving Workshop with Chef Mark Haskell
Thanks to a grant written by the Town of Bladensburg, Big Belly Solar Trash and Recycling receptacles are now throughout our community. You can see these stations in Bladensburg, Cottage City, Colmar Manor, Edmonston and Mt. Rainier. These nifty receptacles use solar to compact trash and recycling to get more items per can and send … Continue reading Big Belly Solar Trash and Recycling Centers in the Port Towns
REMINDER: Our Next Garden Work Session is THIS SATURDAY July 9 at 10AMWe are mid-way thru the summer and the garden is flourishing. We have more community gardeners involved and more food than ever! Many thanks to all who are making it a wonderful season of food, friends, and fun learning. PLEASE COME to the … Continue reading Updates from the Garden
This Sunday, join the Cottage City Community Garden’s Chef Mark Haskell as he speaks at Reconnecting Our Roots with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Buy Fresh Buy Local Chesapeake (BFBLC) Chapter. This event will kickoff the BFBLC program by promoting public awareness of the environment, the economic benefits of local food, and the impacts of agriculture on … Continue reading Reconnecting Our Roots –
Today, Jullianne Bethea, Master Gardener with the Prince George’s County Extension program taught a workshop on the Joy of Gardening. Gardening is the Number 1 hobby in America. People garden for a multitude of reasons – it’s therapy, a form of decoration, helps to provide food and it’s a form of satisfaction. The majority of … Continue reading The Joy of Gardening – Soil Therapy
Welcome to June in the garden. Hopefully with all the May rains – our plants will be growing fast in June! UPDATES FROM THE GARDEN REMINDER: Our Next Garden Work Session is June 11 at 10AM We will have a communal garden experience with food and drinks! Vegetables Ready for Picking! The communal and … Continue reading Updates from the Garden – June 2016
On May 4, the Prince George’s County Food Equity Council sponsored a Urban Agriculture tour with the Prince George’s County Planning Department. Representatives from the Prince Georges’ County Department of Environment and the University of Maryland Extension Program were present. The purpose of the meeting was to help the Prince George’s County Zoning Rewrite team learn more about urban agriculture in Prince George’s County … Continue reading Prince George’s County Agencies Visit
Would you like to grow fresh fruits and vegetables in your neighborhood? Join the Cottage City Community Garden and become one of a growing number of cultivators, caretakers and champions for sustainable food sources in our own backyard. Community gardeners come from many different backgrounds and all walks of life – they are the driving force behind our … Continue reading Join the Cottage City Community Garden
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