Fall Plantings

Just wanted to share these great shots of the garden using the Hipstamatic app on the iphone.

FCGA Board Meeting!

We invite all members to attend the meeting and get your voices heard. Thanks to Community FARE for letting us use their conference room. The meeting will be held next Tuesday, August 9th at 4 E Church Street, Conference Room B (the one on the right) in Kemp Hall at 7pm. I don't expect it will last more than 1 hour.

I promise I will bring delicious goodies!

Ukulele Concert to Benefit FCGA!

Joannie's Carrol Street Cafe

124 S Carroll Street #1

Frederick, MD

July 1st, 2011

7:30pm

Hope you can join us!

More water? Yes please!

As many of you may have noticed, we are quickly going through the garden's winter supply of water. We are happy to say that we have set up 3 more rain barrels to catch the rain water coming off the building. A huge thank you to Hunter Herrman for helping me set them up!

Why use rain barrels instead of just attaching a hose to the city's water system?

1. During the peak summer months a rain barrel can collect about 1,300 gallons of water, depending on where you live

2. Rain barrels help reduce erosion, storm water flow, pollution and flooding.

3. A rain barrel will help reduce the demand on the local water supply.

4. Rain water is naturally softer, oxygenated and more acidic than tap water. It doesn't have any chlorine, calcium or lime.

And best of all...It's free!

Now that everything is set up, we just need it to rain! Anyone know how to do the rain dance?