Saturday November 3 from 10:00 to 1:00 We will be doing a final weeding/mulching and can use all the help we can get. Please bring a wheelbarrow or cart if you have one, as well as shovels/rakes. Hope to see you there! Meanwhile, many many thanks to the volunteers who mulched and weeded during the […]

This morning (8/30) Roberta discovered many monarch caterpillars on the milkweeds we’ve planted at the train station—a long awaited success! “Many scientists are concerned about the eastern population of monarchs, which summer east of the Rocky Mountains. This group is occurring in ever smaller numbers, and its survival may be threatened by a series of […]

We had a successful work session at the orchard, finishing the weeding and mulching we started in May. The pollinator bed is packed with native perennials that are bursting with blooms! We hope neighbors will take the initiative from time to time to step down there for an hour or so—or even just a few […]

WCGN had a very productive work day in early May, but we weren’t able to do all the mulching we wanted to, so we’re planning another mini-workday July 14, Bastille Day. We’ll do weeding and mulching, starting at 9:00 and finishing between 11:00 and noon. If you can make it and if it is easy, […]

We had a really productive work session at the train station orchard/garden on May 5. The weather was perfect, and all told there were 18 of us doing digging and weeding, hauling and mulching, pruning and cleanup. I hope you all get a chance to stop by and see it. The perennials are on their […]

The garden has been bearing some fruit: red raspberries in early summer, and now black raspberries and peaches! The pollinator garden is buzzing, and a couple of monarch butterflies have been sighted near the milkweed patches. The weather has been so wet that we have only had to water once or twice, so most of […]