Contact: Shirley Tollaksen,

Phone:

E-Mail: shirleytollaksen@msn.com

Renewal Youth Gardens
Update for spring 2010

On March 31 we held a planning meeting for our Fundraiser, which takes place on April 27th at the Baraboo Arts Banquet Hall. We are still seeking donations for our silent and live auctions. The following locations are selling tickets and have the decorated flower pots on display: Pierce’s Supermarket, the Coffee Bean, Village Booksmith, and Flambeau Outlet Store. Call Shirley @ 063-3367, if you want to bid on a pot. Next Fundraiser planning meeting will be Mon. April 19 @ The Barn Restaurant.

We also sell Market Baskets to support this project. The cost is 255.00 for 17 weeks of produce. The pick up point is The Grainary health food store. We can take 6 more Market Basket orders. Brochures with order forms inside are available at The Grainary, or call Shelley Mordini @ 963-3379.

We have begun prepping beds and planting at the Hwy 33 garden. The mulching and composting we have done over the past 8 years is definitely paying off. The dense, clay soil has become more friable and is loaded with earthworms. We also have a garden at 1531 Lake Street, which needs more mulching.

We need more hand tools. If you know someone, who has used garden tools they no longer want, please call Shirley @ 963-3367.

For now, our spring work schedule is:
Tuesday 9-11 am
Thursday 4-6 pm
We will be working more in May and will host a couple of all day workdays. Call Shirley, if you’re interested, and I can update the schedule for you.

Regular summer schedule after June 10th
Monday 4-7
Tuesday 8-11
Thursday 4-7
Friday 8-11

We can use all the volunteers, who are interested. Last year we had 5 Master Gardeners come out on a regular basis. The Hwy 33 garden is located 2.5 miles east of the Log Cabin restaurant on the David Wernecke and Judy Spring property- fire no. 13119 E. St. Rd. 33. The other garden is at 1531 Lake Street, where the Renewal Unlimited building houses Head Start and Fresh Start programs. We are working on reestablishing a garden on the UW Baraboo/Sauk County campus. Youth, ages 12-21 are also welcome to volunteer.

 

March 2010:

Many of the students, who work in the Youth Garden in the summer, take Shelley Mordini's spring Garden Class at BHS. Shelley's class will be starting