Cottage City Day 2024
Our Gardeners will be present with fresh veggies from the garden! Hope to see you there! Continue reading Cottage City Day 2024
Category: Updates
UMD Professor & Local Students Build and deliver New Bee shed
We are happy to share one of our latest news story about the solar bee shed Dave Tilley, an associate professor of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland and a cohort of undergraduate students designed, built, and delivered a beautiful new shed, which now stands adjacent to the Cottage City community garden’s … Continue reading UMD Professor & Local Students Build and deliver New Bee shed
2023-2024 Garden Projects: Funded by the Cottage City ARPA Funds
Throughout the 2023- 2024 seasons we have been able to make many improvements to the garden. How exciting!! The new fence was replaced in February 2024. This helps us keep the wildlife out and our beautiful plants safe and flourishing. We installed a new 500 gallon cistern and rainwater system. Our local garden helpers, Demetrius … Continue reading 2023-2024 Garden Projects: Funded by the Cottage City ARPA Funds
2024 Spring Veggie & Plant Seedling Fundraiser
Saturday April 27th, 9am to Noon at the Cottage City Town Hall 3820 40th Ave. Cottage City, MD 20722 Buy your veggie plants locally and help us raise funds for the Cottage City Community Garden for our 2nd Annual Seedling Sale and Fundraiser! We will be selling a large variety of potted tomatoes, eggplant, sweet … Continue reading 2024 Spring Veggie & Plant Seedling Fundraiser
Pollinator Day at the Garden was beautiful!
Pollinator Day at the Garden was beautiful! We enjoyed seeing new, current, former and potential future gardeners touring the garden and learning about all of the ways pollinators make our garden fruitful and productive. Our beekeepers Barbara Klieforth and Natashia Davis were on hand and demonstrated how they inspect the beehives and make sure the … Continue reading Pollinator Day at the Garden was beautiful!
Seed Starting Workshop, Sat., Feb 19, 10am
Help us kick start the 2022 growing season! Please join this short workshop where you’ll learn how to get an early start on your vegetable, herb and flower planting for the spring! Brian Bennett, Co-Leader of the Cottage City Community Garden, will share his tips for successful sowing and transplanting. All are welcome to join this virtual workshop. … Continue reading Seed Starting Workshop, Sat., Feb 19, 10am
Salsa in the Garden
Join Cottage City Community Garden’s Salsa in the Garden event! Taste test homegrown and homemade Cottage City salsas while enjoying salsa music. Learn how to dance salsa and pick some veggies! Register today! FREE! Saturday, August 14th 12:00pm – 2:00pm Location Cottage City Community Garden 4222 Cottage Terrace Cottage City, MD 20722 CLICK HERE TO … Continue reading Salsa in the Garden
Cottage City Garden is a Climate Victory Garden
Cottage City Community Garden is now part of the community of gardeners across the country who are growing good food as a climate solution.
Climate Victory Gardens are powerful tools for change and estimated that, over the next ten years, every 2,500 gardens will capture carbon at the equivalent of taking 70,000 cars off the road for a year. Continue reading Cottage City Garden is a Climate Victory Garden
Honeybees in the Garden
UPDATE: THIS WAS AN OUTSTANDING WORKSHOP. Watch our recap below. Our first in-person garden workshop will take place on Saturday, June 12 at 11am. The workshop will be on honeybees and will be given by our very own beekeepers, Darcy and Natashia. We invite you to attend this interactive workshop and learn about the fascinating … Continue reading Honeybees in the Garden
Updated Covid Guidelines
COVID Guidelines Update: Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced today that the County will align with the State of Maryland and lift capacity and distancing restrictions for all indoor and outdoor venues. These new guidelines will go into effect by Executive Order on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 5:01 p.m. “Beginning Monday, May 17 … Continue reading Updated Covid Guidelines
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