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A Sunny Harvest Celebration
These Harvest Festivals, they just keep getting better and better. This year, we enjoyed delicious food, excellent musical performances,...
Elaine Johnson
Oct 12, 20231 min read
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The September Garden
At first, the September garden is a continuation of the very productive month that proceeds it. Temperatures remain in the summery 80s...
Elaine Johnson
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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Elaine Johnson
Oct 1, 20230 min read
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Volunteers Help the GNG Grow
A garden may grow by itself (thank you, God), but it needs careful tending -- planting, weeding, regular watering, sharp eyes to spot...
Elaine Johnson
Sep 9, 20232 min read
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The August Garden
The August garden produces an embarrassment of riches. This month we harvested nearly 200 pounds of gorgeous cucumbers, beans, tomatoes,...
Elaine Johnson
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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A Church Built of Trees
I've been enamored of walled gardens since I read The Secret Garden as a girl. It's been my goal to create a thick wall of shrubs...
Elaine Johnson
Aug 16, 20231 min read
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The July Garden
The July garden is ramping up nicely to the explosion of vegetables it will produce in August. Cucumbers, beans, carrots, squash and...
Elaine Johnson
Aug 4, 20231 min read
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The June Garden
June offers a mere glimpse of the bounty of produce yet to come. While not prolific, the June garden is still pretty magical as the seeds...
Elaine Johnson
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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Adding Asparagus and Rhubarb
This spring, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry challenged Good News Gardeners to expand their efforts on behalf of the food insecure in...
Elaine Johnson
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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We Have Radishes!
For the second straight year, June 5 was Radish Day in the Good News Garden. Volunteers picked 1-1/4 pounds of the red beauties, which...
Elaine Johnson
Jun 10, 20232 min read
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Elsewhere in the Garden
The peonies were right on schedule, blooming by the traditional Memorial Day holiday, May 31. The lush, pale pink blossoms deserve a...
Elaine Johnson
Jun 9, 20231 min read
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The May Garden
At the end of May, the Good News Garden is definitely showing signs of robust life. It won't be long until the cucumbers send out...
Elaine Johnson
Jun 4, 20231 min read
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Planting the Plot
Right on schedule for Zone 5, our team of volunteer gardeners planted the first crop of vegetables in the Good News Garden on May 7 and...
Elaine Johnson
May 19, 20231 min read
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Season Opener
The Good News Garden season kicked off May 7 with an outdoor Coffee Hour under sunny skies. In keeping with tradition, the event featured...
Elaine Johnson
May 11, 20231 min read
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Good News Garden Kickoff
We will kick off the third season of the Good News Garden with an outdoor Coffee Hour at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 7, next to our newly...
Elaine Johnson
May 6, 20232 min read
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Sowing Seeds in January
After successfully experimenting with germinating seeds in milk jugs late last winter, the Good News Garden team got a helping hand from...
Elaine Johnson
Jan 29, 20232 min read
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The November Garden
Here's a roundup of activity in the Good News Garden during November. The goal is to keep track of our planting timetable and yields...
Elaine Johnson
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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The October Garden
Here's a roundup of activity in the Good News Garden during October. The goal is to keep track of our planting timetable and yields...
Elaine Johnson
Nov 3, 20221 min read
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Celebrating Our Bounty
St. Andrew's parishioners gathered together Sunday, October 23, to celebrate the bounty of the Good News Garden, the ingathering of 2023...
Elaine Johnson
Oct 29, 20221 min read
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Catfaced
Among the green tomatoes ripening on the kitchen windowsills are several catfaced specimens. I had never heard the term before this fall,...
Elaine Johnson
Oct 19, 20221 min read
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