Category: Urban Agriculture

Fruit Trees in the West End

I was recently made aware of this cool blog, talking about things right under MY nose!  I have a fruit tree in front of my house- but had no clue…well, I knew I had a tree-I just didn’t know that it was a fruit tree since it’s still very young.

http://www.concrete-jungle.org/

I remember having a Mulberry trees  in the backyard of one of my Brooklyn rentals…I did not appreciate it then- all the berries, falling and staining EVERYTHING.. now the girls and I are always on a hunt for this tree.   This site has a map of the Atlanta fruit tree locations- how cool is that?  This summer, we plan to take some time to follow the map and taste Atlanta! We also plan to contribute to the map (a great Home School project) since we already know of a few Peach Trees, Apple Trees and a few Mulberry bushes in the West End!

Ashview Heights…. Beltline Garden

Ashview Heights is having a garden clean up. If any of your neighbors are interested in gardening please send them over. We will be the first edible gardens on the Beltline. Also let the youth know! We have teamed up with Booker T. Washington High School. Any BTW students coming out can use this for their community service requirements. Thursday we had a kick off with Atlanta Food Bank, EECOPAT, Suntrust and The Beltline check out the pictures www.facebook.com/ashview.heights. We are looking forward to a great future. Thank you all for your support!

 
Where: Ashview Garden (Holderness and Fenwood)
When: April 30, 2011 @ 8 am to 12 pm
see you there :0)
 
 
Larry Carter

Cookies anyone?

Homemade Joy will once again be offering fresh baked cookies for sale this weekend.  On Saturday, Juyly 31, the West End Farmers / Community Gardens

Market will open 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at 640 Evans Street in the West End.  The market will no longer be open on Fridays.

For orders of 12 or more cookies, please contact Marc in advance at
404-964-8946,

or email your order to homemadejoy@yahoo.com.

** Please forward this to every you know might be interested in the Homemade Joy Cookies, or the Farmers / Community Gardens market.

Rose Circle Community Garden

It was nice to wake up to a google alert about our Community Garden!

West End garden is making big strides in being published on the Gardening Channel website (http://gardeningchannel.com/) , ode to Ms Zimmerman the founder of the Rose Circle garden.

For more information please visit their website: http://rosecirclecommunitygarden.wikispaces.com/