The Sweet Briar Community Garden

Hi All,

We will have a workday at the Sweet Briar Community Garden on Saturday, November 10 at 10 am. The purpose is to tidy up the flower gardens. If you would like some divisions for your garden, we should have some available. There will also be Jerusalem artichokes for anyone who wants them.

Please bring clippers since few are available in the garden.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hope to see you on Saturday.

Best,

Sue

Please join me in thanking Lisa, Sue, Marcia, Pam, Greg, Theron and Ami for this year’s wonderful jams and jellies.  They’ll be available at Homecoming (in the Guion parking lot) on October 20 and before the Thanksgiving and Winter breaks (at Prothro).

We have about 30 lbs of community strawberries picked, processed, and frozen.  It’s a short season, and the more berries we get the more jam we can make and sell in the fall, so keep picking!  Go for berries that are ripe but firm.  A bit of white on some berries is good, since it adds some pectin to the mix.  You can bring what you pick to my house and I’ll take care of the processing.

Thanks to Ami, Lisa, Bonnie, and Olga for all their efforts.

Joel Salatin spent the day with the Sweet Briar community on January 31, including a visit to the garden, where he added his signature to our “wall of honor.”

Joel Salatin's signature

Following the garden tour, we met with Mr. Salatin and discussed ways in which we could make our community more sustainable.

Recordings of Mr. Salatin’s two talks should be available, I believe through the library, in case you were unable to hear him in person. Contact Bonnie if you have any questions.