Tri-City's 3rd Anniversary Party on 5/16/10

All are welcome to join us Saturday, May, 16th for a potluck dinner and presentation from 5:00pm to approx 8:30pm. Bring a dish to share as well as your own plates, cups and utensils along with a chair. Also, join Farmer Randy (starting at 10:00am) and others throughout the day for a community work party before the meal. As a special feature following the evening dinner, the Pitzer Interns will be giving us a sampling of their final presentation as a culmination of their time spent at the Tri-City Community Garden and at Amy's Farm this past spring term.

Workday at Tri City with Otterspace

Saturday, April 3rd, Jen Rosen and Mary beth Fletcher were kind enough to hold a class at Tri City garden. They talked to the kids about gardening, then painted murals on the cinder block walls with them.

Free Tree Pruning Workshop, April 23, 2010

Greetings to all. Mark your calendars for the next Tri-City Fruit tree Pruning and Thinning Workshop. On Friday morning, April 23, Tom Spelman will be teaching how to do a spring pruning and thinning of the prolific new fruit on our four year old trees at Tri-City. Bring your own shears and be prepared to work! We have 50 trees that need a lot of love. This workshop is free and begins at 9:00 and will wind down before noon. Tri-City is located at 2008 N. Garey Ave. in Pomona and is two blocks south of Laverne Ave. on the East side of Garey. Remember, this is a Friday not a Saturday event. (Tom doesn't do Saturdays) See you there!

With Faith Hope and Love, Randy

A Welcome Presence

A new bunch of friends has recently started frequenting the garden. During our February first-Saturday-of-each-month "come-one-come-all" Work Day, a woman excitedly made contact with Randy, Paul, and Al. Cathy lives in Pomona and has been adopted as Grandma by the kids in her neighborhood. Her own story reflects a move from unhealthy to healthy eating (and gardening), and she has a desire to introduce the local children to a better -- more healthy -- way of life. With permission of parents she has launched the Berkeley Kids Growing Co-op for her special friends right here at Tri-City Community Garden.

This amazing woman and the eager members of her co-op have been working hard turning last year's tomato patch into ready-to-go community growing plots. The group, as well as interns from Pitzer College and other active members of the community garden, have worked side-by-side weeding, clearing, and tilling the soil. Last Saturday (at the March Work Day), some initial transplants were set in place.

This promises to be an amazing educational opportunity for these kids. These children are going to receive something too few kids in our industrial world get: front-and-center engagement with growing real honest-to-goodness veggies. They are sure to enjoy the food they grow, since its food they grew. And they'll be learning about soil (not dirt, as they were taught on their first day in the garden!), seeds, cultivation and so much more.

Tri-City Community Garden was founded for just such a purpose. Everyone is very excited to learn with, and from, the kids co-op and their gracious mentor Cathy, as the seasons unfold.

We Value Making New Friends...

We thought the work day would be rained out this Saturday but there was a break in the weather and with it came encouragement beyond our expect-ations. A group of about 9 Pomona College students representing their environmental club came out for a first time tour of the garden hosted by Farmer Randy. They then stayed and weeded the farm demonstration beds and beyond. Thank you Pomona students--you know who you are! Thank you, Deidra, for tipping them off to come our way and for sharing them even in the midst of your own project needs that day. And thanks for everyone else who came out that soggy day. we all know that when it rains, so come the weeds! So Saturday was a real boost to the garden and to our community.