One Dry January

The monthly Crop Swap returns to CACG on Wednesday January 22nd at 6:15pm.

 

January Crop Swap

Wednesday the 22nd

Arrive at 6:15 trading starts at 6:30 pm

 

We will be trading winter veggies, fruits, eggs, honey, nuts, home canned goods, recipes, ideas, gently used clothing, books, music, magazines, CD's and DVD's

 

We will enjoy a Bon Fire and hot coco providing it is not a "No burn day".

 

 

On January 18th from noon to 3pm the Golden Gate Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers will hold their annual Scion Exchange  Nothing to do with vehicles but passionate garden types swapping sticks! Please click on the link to see how it works.

This fun event will be held in Berkeley next to the Ashby BART station. It's a chance to learn a lot, meet some great people, share your favorite fruit tree prunings and be gifted with a rare opportunity to graft some obscure variety onto your tree at home.

Circling the tables laden with scions (tree prunings) are more tables with local groups showcasing their contributions to the fruit growing community.

This year, for the first time, Martinez Permaculture Center and the Center Avenue Community Garden will have a table to display and present our activities to the fruit friendly assembled masses. Jennifer and Tammy have volunteered to organize and be there to represent us.

Jennifer harvesting potatoes from the potato towers



 

Tammy moving trimmings after the frost

To Top it off our Garden Friend Ritch Davidson has created a beautiful flyer to accompany the event.

It really is a work of art and most worthy of posting here on the blog if I can find a way of doing that. Currently it is not in a format acceptable for uploading to this blog.

Thank you so much Ritch for applying your professional design skills to this informative document that will serve us for some time to come.

 

Attempt to protect our citrus trees from the very cold nights of low 20's F temperatures. It appears that they all made it!

The Kale came through unscathed and I feel tastes a little sweeter after being frosted.

The Huglekultur bed has been raised up with woody garden waste and small branches from the locally harvested mulberry limbs. It was topped with compost and wood chips then seeded in December with Red Clover and Kale as a cover crop. If we had received a normal amount of rain the pile (I believe 'Hugle' means pile in German) would have settled somewhat and now in mid January be green with seedlings.

 

Mike and Jennifer harvesting potatoes.

Our Friend Kiel has on many occasion extoled the virtues of going bare foot or at least paying tribute to our connection to the Earth. He has demonstrated his footwear with magnets and educated us on the health benefits of grounding our bodies through our feet.

I have found several websites related to this issue. Here is one promoting a bare foot lifestyle. 

 

More soon .... David