Friday, September 24, 2010
Making Pesto
We had an awesome Pesto workshop last week. We harvest most of the basil in the garden, which was a small mountain worth of leaves. Now, we have frozen pesto, ready and waiting for our pasta workshop in November!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Become a Garden Caretaker
Sign-up to be a Garden Caretaker (Just like this lovely Bee in our garden)
Garden Caretakers are dedicated garden members who commit to the following:
- Attend or run four office hours throughout the semester. The garden will have a set time each week that will be open for office hours, when people can drop by and find out about it, help weed, etc. Garden Caretakers will be there to guide volunteers and make sure everything gets done.
- Attend/Help Coordinate One Building Day: Building Days are usually on the weekend, and will happen maybe 3 or 4 times this semester. We'll be using these days to build new raised beds, install cold-frames, or make improvements to the shed. The Garden Coordinator (Parker Porfilio and his assistants) will provide all the tools and know-how. You just provide the (wo)man-power, and maybe some of your own expertise~ If you absolutely cannot attend any of the Building Days, you can fulfill this requirement by doing other building work on your own time.
- Potentially join the Watering crew. We'll make a little rotation of who's in charge of watering. If you live off-campus, this won't apply to you unless you really want to do it.
Doing these three things (About 10 hours of time spread over the semester), you'll become a Garden Caretaker and will get to join in on Communal Garden Dinners. These are dinners where we go out and harvest whatever is ready, and people pitch in bread and cheese and other things, and we enjoy a tasty meal together.
If you're interested in signing up, or have any questions, please contact Parker at parkerp@brandeis.edu
- Attend or run four office hours throughout the semester. The garden will have a set time each week that will be open for office hours, when people can drop by and find out about it, help weed, etc. Garden Caretakers will be there to guide volunteers and make sure everything gets done.
- Attend/Help Coordinate One Building Day: Building Days are usually on the weekend, and will happen maybe 3 or 4 times this semester. We'll be using these days to build new raised beds, install cold-frames, or make improvements to the shed. The Garden Coordinator (Parker Porfilio and his assistants) will provide all the tools and know-how. You just provide the (wo)man-power, and maybe some of your own expertise~ If you absolutely cannot attend any of the Building Days, you can fulfill this requirement by doing other building work on your own time.
- Potentially join the Watering crew. We'll make a little rotation of who's in charge of watering. If you live off-campus, this won't apply to you unless you really want to do it.
Doing these three things (About 10 hours of time spread over the semester), you'll become a Garden Caretaker and will get to join in on Communal Garden Dinners. These are dinners where we go out and harvest whatever is ready, and people pitch in bread and cheese and other things, and we enjoy a tasty meal together.
If you're interested in signing up, or have any questions, please contact Parker at parkerp@brandeis.edu
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