Last weekend demonstrated what is most likely to get many of us to the garden on a chilly and windy day: cookies! Two garden members had the wonderful idea of organizing a cookie exchange. Many gardeners obliged and brought cookies… Continue Reading
More than 10 years ago (in 2011), our then-chair Sara Jones painted a labyrinth on the large empty patch of pavement next to the garden. We always see people of all ages walk (and sometimes run) through this labyrinth. It… Continue Reading
The Sunday before Halloween was another big day in the garden. We had organized a pre-Halloween crafts workshop. We got pumpkins to carve and learned how to fold cool origami bats that flap their wings. Because we had listed this… Continue Reading
Aside from beautiful flowers, our garden grows a variety of fruit and vegetables. Everybody who has the tiniest bit of land wants to grow their own delicious tomatoes. Some of our gardeners plant much more than that: different varieties of… Continue Reading
As in previous years, Johannes, our butterfly expert, collected eggs and small caterpillars of monarch butterflies to let them grow up in a safe environment (his apartment), free of predators and parasites. This is not an easy feat! Each little… Continue Reading