We’ve moved and would like to invite you to our new ning website. It is loads classier, and more accessible! Check it out at 1000NEWGARDENS.NING.COM – if you see the banner below, you’re in the right place! Peas, Max You can also contact an organizer(s) directly depending on where you live … In Missoula: [...]
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7 Jan
Gardeners Don’t Hibernate in January
It’s cold and windy, the Montana environment is at its most formidable. For first-time and returning gardeners alike, the weather conditions couldn’t be more aligned with the Winter gardening tasks–curling up on a tea-stained couch at night with seed catalogs and a mock-diagram of your garden plot. 1,000 New Gardens cultivator, Geoff Badenoch (ie. Tiger Prawn) spied a [...]
14 Aug
Seed Saving Workshop: August 22, 2009
It’s about time to leave pea pods on their vines (so the seeds fully mature) and a few biennial carrots in the ground (until next year for them to flower). The Basics of Seed Saving Workshop is also just around the corner at the Missoula Urban Demonstration site. The cost is $10 for members and [...]
13 Jul
Cooking Workshop with Pearl Cash of the Pearl Cafe!
So you’ve seen the cucumber plants extending and the spinach starts are making a lot of noise in the green forest at the far end of the garden…you’ve proven yourself in the fields…now it may be time to get together with other high-spirited harvesters and get some more ideas about how to turn yer bounty [...]
30 Jun
Finding Our Niche
Yippee to every voter, email spreader, writer and every new gardener. Whether we win 10,000 smackers or not, we will continue to support Missoula’s burgeoning interest in all things Arugula, Chard, Pumpkin. The response has been overwhelming and it’s been an excellent week to talk to people about the project’s vision and how other people’s [...]
25 Jun
“Mom, I helped 1,000 New Gardens get $10,000 today!”
As we speak, 1,000 New Gardens volunteers are leading a campaign to mobilize Missoulians to support our vision. The word on the street (maybe you’ve heard it, maybe you should spread it, maybe you should open the window and yell it out loud) is that 1,000 New Gardens is one of eight ideas in the [...]
5 Jun
1,000 New Gardens Promo
Thank you, Greta Rybus, for putting so much work into this video of 1,000 New Gardens! From the banjo music to the Brady Bunch-style editing of 9 of the households that are in the network in 2009 to the many interviews you conducted…this is a work of art. Check it out everyone!
5 Jun
1kng at the Love Your Mother Earth Festival
Hola campesinos! 1,000 New Gardens hopes to see you at the Love Yer Mother Earth Festival this weekend at Lolo Hot Springs! This is the next installment of our “Get Out The Garden” efforts–our goal is to attract 10 new gardeners for 2010 to the network and have a little fun doing it. The plan [...]
26 May
Get yer June on…
“The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe. Success in the garden is the moment in time, that week in June when the perennials unanimously bloom and the border jells…it’s easy to get discouraged, unless, [...]
19 May
gardening at 201 chestnut
Started gardening with lots of advice and expectation. Nearly poked eye with fencing, irrigation options, learn by doing
12 May
Creating a Space for Growth & Solitude
The amazing weekend of April 26th transformed my backyard from a green oasis to a thriving backyard farm. This newly created 300 sf area needed more than just dirt, horse manure and love, it needed its own space to grow (separate from the high energy dogs), and I needed my own solitude. This solitude has [...]
15 Mar
D-Day (1,000 New Gardens Dig Day)
On Saturday April 11th, 1,000 New Gardens’ volunteers will take the first step towards revitalizing Missoula’s legacy as the Garden City. We will remove sod and turn the soil over with compost/manure at 10 test plot gardens. After all of the hard work over the last two months, we will open our hands wide and [...]
15 Mar
From the lips of Jeremy Amo, aspiring gardener
Welcome to the Modern Age. An age where the majority of the food that you consume on a daily basis comes from the grocery store and every item in that grocery store, unless otherwise stated, is shipped in thousands of miles away via semi-trucks. There are thousands of problems that stem from this. There are [...]
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