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If you don’t find anyone at the Corvallis Environmental Center (CEC) these days, chances are good you’ll find them at the SAGE Garden, by Starker Arts Park. That’s the huge garden just west of the pond and stage with the colorful tool shed embellished with the garden’s name: SAGE (Starker Arts Garden for Education). Each week more vegetables are tucked into the soil and start to stretch towards the sun (when it visits). And, each week more people are drawn to the SAGE Garden like bees to spring flowers.
Many would like to …
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Some people who are following this blog have been “chitting” potatoes to increase their storage of solar energy and make their sprouts tougher prior to planting. This post covers how to plant your potatoes. If you’ve got some potatoes that are eager to get in the ground, here’s a simple method that yields good results. (As with all gardening techniques, there are about as many ways to plant potatoes as there are potato varieties – and that’s a lot! What follows is just one way that we’ve found works …
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The Alpine Park was established in the 1960′s by local residents. It is maintained entirely through the efforts of volunteers. Come and meet your “neighbors” and share in the fun of caring for this little park gem. We’ll be weeding, pruning, raking and making the park beautiful in time for Memorial Day weekend when visitors come and pay their respects at the Alpine Cemetery up the hill. After the work is done we’ll have a potluck picnic lunch for those who want to enjoy each others company …
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The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition’s new Neighborhood Gardening website is just the ticket if you’re a new gardener. It will also have information for those with years of garden soil under their fingertips, as well.
Here’s what Rachel LovellFord of this CSC Food Action Team says of the project and website:
Want to grow some of your own food? Never gardened before and looking for a hand? Envious of your neighbor’s tomatoes and wonder how they do it? Want to meet your neighbors? The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition has the answer: www.corvallisgarden.net.
This website, run …
