growing people newsletter - summer 2007
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Ever Growing
Frigid rain, biting wind, and
overall miserable weather could
not keep committed GICD
volunteers and a few die-hard
plant enthusiasts from attending
the first day of our plant sale on
Saturday, April 14, at the East
Dallas Community and Market
Garden. Though sales that first
day were slow, by Sunday, and
for next weeks Plot Against
Hunger Sale at Our Saviour
Garden, the weather was beau-
tiful and a steady stream of
visitors purchased vegetables,
herbs and bedding plants.
Overall this years 12th an-
nual fundraising GICD plant
sale raised over $5000 for our
educational programs. A spe-
cial attraction each year are
tomato, pepper and herb plants
grown by our staff and volun-
teers.
Many thanks go to all those
who volunteered to work at
the sale, making this years sale
one of the most profitable
ever. Special thanks go to our
corporate sponsors and indi-
viduals whose donations of
plants, a gift basket, and gift
certificates make this fundrais-
ing sale possible. Business do-
nors included: Blue Ribbon
Lady Landscaping, Bruce
Miller Nursery, Naud Bur-
nett at Casa Flora, Vickery
Nursery, Green Lake Nurs-
ery, Oak Tree Nursery, Rui-
bals Plants of Texas, Jimmys
Food Store, Calloways at
Greenville Ave., Smith & Haw-
kins, and NorthHaven Nursery.
Individuals who contributed
plants and a gift basket included:
Cathi Haug, Sibyl Koss, and
Patsy Aguilera.
A very special thank you goestoYC Nursery that had originally
promised 100 flats of bedding
plants, but sent over 200 flats for
the sale.
GICD Plant Sale A Success
Gardeners In Community Development
GICD WISH LIST:
garden benches
garden tool shed
new lap top computer
wheelbarrows
gardening tools
canning jars
Mantis tiller
Kubota tractor with
loader and tiller
friends with trucks
volunteers
Mission: improving the quality of life in neighborhoods through community gardening
Summer 2007 Dallas Area Community Gardening
Hope Garden on Water Wise TourApproximately 70 people
visited Hope Community Gar-
den during the 12th Annual
Dallas Water Utilities Water
Wise Tour on Saturday, June
2, 2007.
One of five Water Wise
(Xeriscape) award winners last
year, Hope Garden can now
participate each year in the
tour as a demonstration gar-
den. Visitors toured the gar-
den, talked to gardeners and
volunteers, learned about do-
nating fresh produce to food
pantries, and were shown the
use of water-wise techniques in
the home vegetable garden.
Many visitors were amazed to
learn that in a 40x60 plot, Hope
Garden had donated over 2000
pounds of freshly harvested pro-
duce to area food pantries in
2006.
Gardeners In Community Development
901 Greenbriar Lane
Richardson, TX 75080
www,gardendallas.org
Whats in this issue:
True Blue Friends 2
New Fence 2
D Magazine 2
APEX 3
New Gardens 3
Garden Gleanings 4
Heifer Volunteers 5
Starbucks 6
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True Blue Friends
New Fence At East DallasCommunity and Market Garden
Asian Gardeners Featured in D Magazine
The Blue Bird of Happiness
is singing a thank you to the
youth group from Preston
Hollow Presbyterian Church
for making bird houses during
GICDs Blue Bird NestboxProject.
On Saturday, June 16,
GICD volunteer carpenters,
A.L. Nickerson, Michael
Brown, and their apprentices,
Andrew Brown and Michael
Smith, precut 40 cedar bird-
houses. Then on June 26th,
37 youth and 4 adults from
Preston Hollow Presbyterian
Church volunteered all day at
Our Saviour Garden. Theyweeded, mulched, reworked
the compost pile, and learned
about GICD, community gar-
dening and Heifer Interna-
tional and constructed 27
bird houses. It was like a
their life and what they grow in
the garden. The article in-
cluded photographs and a brief
explanation of how to use
green pepper, edible canna,
and bitter melon in Southeast
Asian cooking. Congratula-
tions to these three women
whose stories of loss and tri-
umph are representative of all
refugee farmers.
The gardeners of the East Dallas
Garden and Market
The East Dallas Commu-
nity and Market Garden and
three of its gardeners were
featured in a two page article in
the June 2007 edition ofD
Magazine. The magazine had
as its theme Eat Local. In an
article written by Sarah Eveans
and photographed by Eliza-
beth Lavin, gardeners Sophorn
Moeul, Nang Ting, and
Chhuen Chung told about
from various businesses, in-
cludingHome Depot ,
and a matching grant of $500
from GICD, members of the
church worked for several days
constructing the fence only
to have to rebuild it the next
week after someone drove into
it. That is the true spirit of
giving and volunteering.
Members of the Dallas
11th Elders Quorum of the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints replaced
the small, dilapidated fence at
the main entrance of the Asian
garden with a new, beautiful
fence which accents the en-
trance to the garden and beau-
tifies the street and neighbor-hood. With in-kind donations
In a sense, this [the
Asian Garden] is the
only farmers market we
have, it is truly farm to
table.
- Don Lambert in D Magazine
Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 2Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flash .net
Fresh From the East DallasCommunity and Market Garden
Dallas hot, humid summers allow most Asian
vegetables to thrive at the East Dallas Commu-
nity and Market Garden. Starting now look for
amaranth greens, basil, bitter melons, eggplant,
ivy leaf gourd tips, lemon grass, long beans, loo-
fah, Malabar spinach, peppers, snake gourds, taro
stems, water spinach, and wax gourds.
The East Dallas Community and Market Gar-
den is located at 1416 N. Fitzhugh and is openevery day. In general, bunches
of freshly harvested produce cost
$1.00 each. Saturday and Sunday
mornings are the busiest times,
with some specialty produce sell-
ing out quickly.
Ripe Snake Gourd
Before
Habitat for Humanity build
for our feathered friends.
The bird houses will be
used to support wildlife in our
gardens and extras will be soldfor $10.00 each. Contact Re-
becca at (214) 564-5801.
After
Did You See?
Hope Community Garden,its gardeners, and an inter-
view with Don Lambert on
Fox 4 TV.
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New Community Gardens
Grocery Stores Reward Cards Support GICDKnow of a
communitygarden?
GICD would like to puttogether a list of all thecommunity gardens inNorth Texas. Sendinformation [email protected].
Don Lambert, Executive
Director of GICD, and Re-
becca Smith, Education Assis-
tant, have been busy this spring
consulting with and helping toestablish several new commu-
nity gardens throughout Dallas.
One garden, the UTD Stu-
dent Community Garden
was dedicated in May and is
already producing produce for
the students and donating to
area food banks. Also in con-
junction with a UTD Alterna-
tive Spring Break Program,
several students along with our
staff helped low income fami-lies build gardens in their own
back yards to grow produce for
their families.
Don and Rebecca have also
played a major consulting role
in the establishment ofGreen-
hill Schools on-campus gar-
den, which will be used as an
educational laboratory for thestudents.
In addition, several area
churches, includingSt. Tho-
mas Episcopal Church, have
consulted with us about start-
ing donation gardens. What a
good time to be involved in
community gardening.
Asian Professional Ex-
change of Dallas (APEX), an
organization of Asian Profes-
sionals, has adopted the East
Dallas Community and Market
Garden as one of their on-goingservice projects. Over the past
year they helped during work-
days and donated new wheelbar-
rows and tools to the garden.
Working side by side with the
older Asian gardeners has been a
positive experience for both
groups as these young profes-
To link your Tom Thumb re-
ward card with GICD, just fill
out a Good Neighbor Applica-
tion Form at the Customer
Service Desk with GICDs
Tom Thumb account num-
ber 6714. Then just be sure
and use your reward card every
time you shop.
And, if you are a Kroger
Do you shop for groceries?
Of course!! Well, if you shop
at Tom Thumb or Kroger,
heres a quick and painless way
to support GICD at no cost to
you. Just link your Tom
Thumb or Kroger reward
cards to GICDs organization
and a percentage of your pur-
chase price will automatically
be donated to us.
shopper, pick up a Kroger
Share Card from Don Lam-
bert or Rebecca Smith, or con-
tact GICD at 972-231-3565 or
[email protected]. We will
happy to send you a card,
along with our many thanks.
What could be an easier way
to support GICD and commu-
nity gardening in Dallas!!
Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 3Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flas h.net
Formoreinfor
mation
goto:www.communit
ygarden.org
sionals demonstrate such respect for
their heritage and elders. Both the
gardeners and GICD thank APEX
for their support and involvement.
Area Community
Gardens on the web:
Coppell Community Garden:
www.coppellcommunity garden.com
Education Community Garden at Dallas:
www.educationcommunitygarden.org
Gardeners in Community Development:
www.gardendallas.org
Plano Community Garden
www.jlplano.orgclick on outreach projects
APEX Adopts Asian Gardens
APEX volunteers working in the garden
Greenhill School garden
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Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 4Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendal las.org grower@flash .net
Garden Gleanings:
From Seedlings toMature Gardeners,
GICD Cultivates
Them All
Planting the Childrens Garden
at Hope which is sponsored by
Susan and Brandon Pollard
East Dallas Gardener
Hope gardener Myrna
Gorchoff with pantry
donations
Worm class for Growing
and Giving science club
Senior harvesters from
Cathedral Gardens
Amanda Brown teaching
youth from Fireside
Recreation Center
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Marys interaction with the children with
their many props and Marys wearing a hat
in the shape of a cow is a delight for both
the children and adults.
Mary also, while on a trip to visit the
Heifer project in the Hopi nation, brought
back authentic Hopi corn seeds to plant a
Three Sisters Garden. This native Ameri-
can method of gardening features corn,
squash and beans that live in harmony
with one another and are the primary
crops of the native American people. The
Hopi corn is planted at the East Dallas
Community and
Market Garden to
honor this heri-
tage and both
Hope and Our
Saviour gardens
have planted
variations on this
native American
way of gardening.
A faithful band of enthu-
siastic Heifer Volunteers
play an important role in
GICD gardening pro-
jects. GICD is one of Heifers North
American Urban Agricultural Pro-
jects, and the only Heifer sponsored
Urban Agricultural project in North
Texas. In particular, Our Saviours
Plot Against Hunger project has be-
come dear to Metroplex Heifer Vol-
unteer hearts.
Under the capable and fun-loving
leadership ofMary Ridgway , DFW
Area Heifer Volunteer Coordinator,
volunteers are passing on the gift
by participating in our workdays and
by holding occasional Heifer volun-
teer meetings in the parish hall at Our
Saviour. In addition, Mary and Paula
Scott have presented several pro-
grams about Heifer International to
children at both Our Saviour and
Hope gardens. Watching Paulas and
Passing On The Gift
By their fruits, ye shall know them
Ever Growing Summer 2007 Page 5Gardeners In Community Development www.gardendall as.org grower@flas h.net
A Basketful of Thanks To
GICDs Fantastic Gardeners and Wonderful Volunteers
Whats Sprouting?Up and Coming Events
at GICD
Starting A Community Garden- TBA
Tiahs Canning Classes TBA
Master Composter Class TBA
2008 Plant Sale April 19 & 20
.. and more to come..
As part of the generous grant from
Heifer International to GICDs DallasUrban Gardening Initiative Project
over 100 fruit and nut trees, as well as
berries and grapes, have been planted
at Our Saviours Plot Against Hunger.
In a few years, this planting will pro-
vide fresh fruit and nuts for the food pan-
tries.
Many thanks to all the volunteers who
have worked on this project. They dug
holes (in both last years drought and this
years monsoon season), planted, mulched
and watered the trees.
Digging the holes
Boy Scout Troop 783hand watered the trees
throughout the drought of 2006
Gardeners in Community Development
A 501 c (3) Non-Profit Organization
Board of Directors
Cathi Haug, President
Amanda Brown, Vice President
Carolyn Bush, Secretary
A.L. Nickerson, Treasurer
Patsy Aguilera Azenath Wright
Don Lambert, Executive Director
Support Community Gardening
Your tax-deductible donation will support
GICDs community gardening program. Any
and all donations are gratefully accepted!!
Please make your check payable to: GICD
Send to 901 Greenbriar Lane, Richardson,
TX 75080
Mary and heifer
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Harvest
Donation
1943 pounds
Next time you are in Starbucks ordering your
favorite latte, you can remember that you are
supporting GICD as well as many other non-
profit organizations. Through Starbucks
Make Your Markprogram, volunteer time is
matched with money and donated to partici-pating non-profits. Over the past year, Star-
bucks has donated over $4000 to GICD. So
have another cup of Starbucks coffee (or tea)
and know that you are supporting our pro-
grams.
Our champion in this effort is Cathi
Haug, a star Starbucks employee, who at-
tended one GICD workday and got hooked on
community gardening. In addition to coordi-
nating Starbucks volunteer projects, she has
her own garden plot at Our Saviour Garden.
In 2006 Cathi won the coveted GICD Volun-teer of the Year award. As our pickle lady
she raised money selling her own homemade
pickles and donated the profits to GICD. In
addition she grew over 100 Texas Wild toma-
toes to sell at our plant sale, and is now our
board president. She even changed her email
address to gardens2give. Now that is an exam-
ple of a true volunteer and we cant thank
her enough for her enthusiasm, commitment
and time.
Starbucks Supports GICD
Gardeners In Community Development Ever Growing
901 Greenbriar Lane
Richardson, TX 75080
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Barbara Baughman (left) and Cathi Haug (right) selling
Cathis homemade pickles at Starbucks
Produce harvestedfor food pantries in
2007