Our Mission: To promote gardening at a community level, to educate, create and encourage community involvement for the betterment of the community, while providing members with the joys of gardening organically.

Announcements

OSU Extension Master Gardeners have provided Greene Acres with a Garden Journal containing a monthly to-do list. Click here to see what’s on the list for each month of the 2018 season.

Our Next Community Work Day is Saturday, August 4, 2018, 8-11am. Your participation is GREATLY appreciated!

First-time onion grower! Amazing “candy” onion!

Don’t forget about our VERY FULL rain barrel! Don’t drink or wash hands with it but it’s fine to water your plot!!

All gardens are filled at this time, but contact us to be added to the waiting list should one become available!

Check Out Our Photo Gallery! Great things happen at Greene Acres Organic Community Garden!

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“5 Questions” featuring Jillian:

1) My first garden was in my early 20’s…all I knew was planting tomatoes and peppers

2) There was this unbelievable exuberance of biting into a warm tomato fresh off the vine right from my backyard. I found it so amazing. From a tiny plant I put in the ground to ‘this’!!!

3) As the years went on I began to start my own plants from seeds. Oh wow…how incredible that was. I’d peek at them ‘every day’.

4) Before moving to Broadview Hts I lived on 2 acres and planted things anywhere I could. I experimented with all kinds of veggie plants and flowers. And that’s when I began my love of my favorite flower…the Lisianthus!!! Now I grow them in a big oblong container on my deck. They get quite tall and look like roses. When friends see them in a vase at my house…they don’t think they are ‘real’.

5) The soil…not many things soothe my soul like the first time in the season I can ‘get my hands INTO the soil’. It shouts ~ winter is over…and ‘let the planting begin’. I totally love how it feels…couldn’t care less how dirty my hands get or what a mess my nails are…after all…It’s ‘gardening season’!!! And my heart expands. ️

Thank you for the wonderful reflections, Jillian! Enjoy your garden!

Be sure to check back often for more updates from Greene Acres Community Organic Garden!

In 2018 please consider giving any extra produce to those in need. Think you’re up to speed on community hunger issues? Check out this article!

PAR = “Plant a Row” Here’s a link for more valuable info on feeding the hungry. Plant A Row

How many pounds do you think you’ll be able to contribute from your plot?

Food for thought: You could grow one plant in your plot for donation purposes only!

In 2017 we donated 460 lbs of produce from our garden! Thank you for your kind donations to the local food bank!

Here are the latest notes from our master gardener mentor!

Please submit any suggestions for future quarterly meeting educational topics here.
Important RAIN BARREL notice: Do NOT drink this water or wash your hands with it! It is NON-POTABLE! It may contain harmful bacteria that could be hazardous to your health! Use the fresh water from the hoses for these purposes.
Are you a “novice” gardener? Just learning the ropes? Feel free to reach out to Jo Ann Bartsch, who, as a Master Gardener, is our “mentor” at Greene Acres via email (jabartsch@att.net) with any questions. Click here here for some information on beginning your career as a vegetable gardener!
Are you thinking about your garden just as much as we are? Click here for some great tips on planning your garden this year, courtesy of Jo Ann.