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HELP WANTED:
Sauk
County Health Care Center Project
This project needs volunteers to assist in digging up plants on Saturday, May
22nd. Volunteers will be working at the old health care center
starting at 9:30 am. If there are any questions, contact Lindsay at 608.393.1955.
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Plant Sale
The Faire on the Square plant sale is Saturday, May 15. Volunteers are needed to serve a two (or more) hour shift selling the plants and interacting with visitors. First shift volunteers, who are able to lift and carry, are needed first thing in the morning to help set up tables and tents, and final shift volunteers, again, who are able to lift and carry, are needed in the afternoon to help tear down.
Donations are also needed. As gardens wake up and "volunteers" are discovered in unexpected (unwanted) locations or overgrown perennials are thinned, please dig 'em up, pot 'em up and donate them to the sale. Donations should be potted early enough to recover from any shock. Please keep these guidelines in mind. Plants should be in pots or containers, not bagged. They should be tidy and trimmed of all debris, and should be labeled and priced legibly. Prices will be adjusted as the day lengthens.
If you are interested in volunteering, contact Carrie at 608-524-0992, or email themamakiwi@hotmail.com.
Circus World Museum
Every Wednesday at 4:30 to weed, water the gardens and deadhead the old blooms
I have an idea for
a "featured" garden at the Circus grounds this year - I would like to plant
Happy the Clown's face in flowers. Phyllis and I met with Steve Freese and Heavy
Burdick to tour the grounds and discuss the idea with CWM personnel and they are
willing to build a new flower bed to accommodate the new project. We will have
to wait for the snow to break before they can move new timbers in and we will be
using their elephant poop to amend the soil in all of the planting areas. We
also counted the number of planters and looked at the established garden areas
to get some ideas for the planting theme this year.
I will need 10-15 volunteers to accomplish all of the
planting in May. Opening day is May 22nd and everything needs to be in place by
then.
Lynn Zick
Merrimac Community Charter School
I imagine by now that your coffee tables are littered
with seed catalogs and that even the little patches of brown earth that peek
through the snow are bringing hope for spring. With that in mind, I'd like to
invite all of you to gather next week to figure out the various ways that we can
help MCCS with their community garden. I'm planning to meet with the garden
committee (several children, Kathie Thompson, Gloria (if she can make it), and
Sid). Together we'll explore what their hopes are for this year. I'll share all
of that with you.
If you know of other people who would like to help us please invite them to come to the meeting. The more the merrier. March 16, 8:00-9:00 PM Merrimac Community Charter School.
Kit Eilertson
Kids Ranch
May 18, 2010
Work
Night, May, 19, 2010
Start at 5:30 or whenever you can make it.
Wear your grubbies, we will be digging the Perennials and transplanting them to
different places. Bring shovels and other garden tools you think you'll need.
Ann says she will keep us all busy. See you all on Wed. evening.
Contact Arlene:
charles834@centurytel.net
Restoration Gardens at Log Cabin Village in Reedsburg.
We should plan on getting together at
the village to brainstorm That seems to me to be the most logical place to meet
for the first time, weather permitting of course. If it is a crummy day or
evening, we can open up the church and have our first meeting inside. I have no
idea what day or time of day would be the best for everyone....could you send me
your ideas on a workable time and then I can get something planned that will fit
everyone (hopefully:) We can have our meeting later in the month of March once
the snow is gone and we are able to walk around and visualize the gardens.
Please email your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions to me when you get a chance.
I am looking forward to working with all of you. The Village is looking forward
to the attention. Thanks for volunteering. Remember--Friends are the flowers
in the garden of life......Not sure who owns this quote...I found it embroidered
on an antique dish towel and liked it! It fits our group...
Looking forward to hearing from all of you.
Contact Barb:
barbevan@wildblue.net, 608-415-1939
Community Gardens in Prairie du Sac
Sauk County is looking for a committee to do a service project every Monday AM in the summer for 4 hours (8:00 to Noon, May thru September) to help the inmates in Huber with a garden plot in the community garden. The person will oversee the workers and give them guidance.
Contact Phyllis, pboth@charter.net, 605-355-3250
Earth Day is Sunday April 25th. UW Baraboo Campus
Organizers have requested a panel to discuss MG information. Dorothy Legler volunteered. Mary Symak will coordinate the SGMGA table display.
Contact Mary: marysymak@aol.com, 608-524-2765
Association Scrapbooker
Our current scrapbooker can no longer tend our books. If you are interested in recording Sauk County Master Gardener happenings, why not fill your volunteer hours scrapbooking?
Contact Mary: marysymak@aol.com, 608-524-2765
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