Article List
DateSubjectAuthor
08/13/2022 GROWING POTATOES FROM A FIVE-GALLON BUCKET
EXPANDING THE CONCEPT FOR WHAT YOU CAN GROW IN A FIVE-GALLON BUCKET. You don’t need a lot of space to grow vegetables—even if you live in an apartment or...
Liz Berry
08/13/2022 LOVING THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
WHY DO I LOVE THE GARDEN SO MUCH? Everything that you need to learn about anything that is important can be found in nature. In an urban setting, the closest...
Liz Berry
08/11/2022 HEMP IS LEGAL TO GROW IN THE USA
HEY Y'ALL, IT'S LEGAL TO GROW HEMP IN TEXAS! Actually, growing hemp is legal in all of the USA. President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law in...
Liz Berry
08/09/2022 UPDATE ON THE GREAT OKRA EXPERIMENT
Okra and lots more to come! Notice the cut stems on the plant. This is where previous okra pods were harvested. I never thought about how an okra grows until...
Liz Berry
08/03/2022 EDIBLE WEEDS
EDIBLE WEEDS Sometimes it takes a long time for an idea to manifest into reality. And so it is with a brainstorm I had several years ago—create a bed filled...
Liz Berry
07/29/2022 WHAT’S UP WITH THE PUSH TO GET PEOPLE TO EAT BUGS?
Fried Insects are already available as street food in Germany By Wilhelm Thomas Fiege / insektenwirtschaft.de - Own work CC BY-SA 4.0,...
Liz Berry
07/26/2022 Seed Libraries
Libraries are great places where knowledge is stored and shared with communities. In the past few years the concept of library has been expanded. We now have...
Liz Berry
07/11/2022 GETTING READY FOR FALL GARDEN
100+ Temperatures and Thinking Fall Garden? Yep! I am! All the garden books I read tell North Texas gardeners to start planting seeds for your fall garden...
Liz Berry
05/23/2022 STEALING FROM THE GARDEN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
STEALING IS STEALING Whether from a Grocery Store or a Community Garden “Community” in the Garden refers to the community of the people who garden there--the...
Liz Berry
05/21/2022 RETHINKING AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
Perhaps if we put more emphasis on working together and sharing instead of competition, we might all be better off. In addition, we might want to rethink our...
Liz Berry
05/10/2022 PATRON SAINTS ABOUND AT THE GARDEN
We have many versions of Saint Fiacre, the Patron Saint of Gardeners--people who do good for our Garland Community Garden and for our community. Some, like...
Liz Berry
05/04/2022 GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN EVENT
PLANT EXCHANGE AND GARDEN CHAT GALAND COMMUNITY GARDEN 4022 NAAMAN School Road (Brand and Naaman School Road SATURDAY MAY 7 - 9AM TO NOON [If it rains,...
Liz Berry
04/29/2022 CONSIDER ADDING WHEAT
Now, more than ever, is the time for urbanites to grow some of the food they eat. . . and to even consider growing unconventional crops normally reserved for...
Liz Berry
04/22/2022 HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN! WE ARE 8 YEARS OLD! April 2022, marks the 8 th year for The Garland Community Garden For some...
Liz Berry
11/13/2021 GARLAND COMMUNITY UPDATE NOVEMBER 13, 2021
Girl Scouts in Garland enjoying the Garden A Great, Crisp Saturday in Garland! I saw bunch of people at the garden this afternoon as I drove by to the grocery...
Liz Berry
11/13/2021 GARLAND COMMUNITY UPDATE NOVEMBER 13, 2021
We are inviting the public to join us in sharing food items with those who are having economic challenges this season. In addition to about 50 pounds of sweet...
Liz Berry
11/07/2021 NOVEMBER UPDATE FROM GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
Margie Rogers with a fake sweet potato root beard Gunvant Patel (Pat) approves-- I think. TIME FLIES! REPORT FROM SWEET POTATO EVENT OCTOBER 24TH It’s already...
Liz Berry
10/22/2021 UPDATE OCT 22 FROM GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
LOVING GARLAND GREEN DELIVERY TO GOOD SAMARITAN’S OF GARLAND. This morning Loving Garland Green donated fifty pounds of produce and canned goods to the Good...
Liz Berry
10/18/2021 A NEW ADDITION TO THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
Volunteers and clients at Good Samaritans of Garland helped us load the new addition for the Garden. Today Charlie and I picked up a picnic table donated to...
Liz Berry
10/07/2021 Wonderful Magical Okra
Yes, It is official! I am an okra fanatic. We have 40 okra plants at the Garland Community Garden and I planted 25 of them. Here are some facts about Okra in...
Liz Berry