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COMMUNITY GARDEN at the Keep Homestead Museum

Autumn at the Garden

Autumn at the Garden
(photo by Theodore B. Ruegsegger)


Mural designed by Shelley Shicoff and painted by volunteers

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Week by Week

Garden

Fall, 2010 - Garden Plot with Manure

 

4.6.11

Garden on April 6, 2011

5.1.11

May 1, 2011

Manure

May 8, 2011 - Manure Plowed In

 

Rotilling

May 16, 2011 Pete Lloyd Rotilling

May 18, in the Rain

May 18, 2011 The Garden in the Rain

May 22

May 22, 2011 Prepping the soil

 

May 24

May 24, 2011

May 31

May 31, 2011

6-2-11

June 2, 2011 After the tornado

 

Porta-Potty

Porta-Potty in field after tornado

6.21.11

June 21, 2011

6.27.11

June 27, 2011

 

7.5.11

July 5, 2011

7.12.11

July 12, 2011

7.19.11

July 19, 2011

7.26.11

July 26, 2011

8.1.11

August 1, 2011

8.10.11

August 10, 2011

David's Tomato

2+ Pound Brandywine Tomato
from David Ramsey's Garden

8.24.11

August 24, 2011

8.30.11

August 30, 2011
Not much damage after Hurricane Irene

9.6.11

September 6, 2011

9.20.11

September 20, 2011

9.27.11

September 27, 2011

1-.4.11

October 4, 2011

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October 11, 2011

 

10.18.11

October 18, 2011
End of the Season
Manure Spread

11.22.11

November 22, 2011
Winter Rye Sprouting


Porta-Potty & Shed

Thank you, Monson Community Preservation Committee
for the grant to provide comfort for our gardeners!

Thank you, Monson Savings Bank!
Gardeners at the new community garden will have a water supply

Thank you, Monson Garden Club
For lime & manure


  • Fall cleanup is ongoing
    • All the plots have been cleaned out and fencing romoved
  • Manure has been rototilled in
  • And winter rye planted

For more information, to donate or to volunteer to help,
call David Ramsey at 413-218-6271
or email him at David Ramsey

For a print-able copy of the application form, click here

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