Free Garden Clinic Saturday July 30th- Organic Pest Management

Save the date for Parkdale Community Garden's second gardening clinic. On Saturday, July 30 at 9:00 a.m. at Parkdale Elementary School (park in the Girard Avenue parking lot and walk around back to the garden), Gayle and Mike Thorpe, owners of Thorpes' Organic Family Farm, will give a presentation on organic pest management. Learn how Gayle and Mike battle bugs, weeds, fungus, and other pestilence using organic methods.

Free Garden Clinic Wednesday May 25th 6:30pm

We’re excited that Ken Brown, long-time host of WBEN's The Home Garden Show, former Cornell Cooperative Extension Agent, and owner of Field of Dreams Farm, a cut-your-own Christmas tree farm in South Wales, has agreed to teach the PCG’s first community gardening clinic. The clinic will run from 6:30-7:15 during the open house. Ken’s topic is “gardening fundamentals” and will cover: Soil fundamentals and amendments, Garden planning and planting and Garden maintenance. Look for future community garden clinics on organic pest and weed control and food preservation.

Parkdale Community Garden Awarded $2000 from Lowes

We just received fantastic news! Lowes is giving the Parkdale Community Garden $2000 to start a school wide composting program! We are soo thrilled. The science and ecological lessons to be learned from composting are incredible.