Monday, July 30, 2012
Handy Andy Outdoors to provide auger, manpower to dig holes for the plants
The Orchard Planning Committee has selected a wide variety of fruit trees and bushes for the orchard the Community Garden won in the Edy’s National Fruit Tree Planting Foundation contest. Some of the varieties were chosen at the committee’s recent inaugural meeting. Others were selected by committee members who researched various types of trees and bushes after the meeting. Those selections have been shared with other committee members by email. Nicole Maslanka, the Community Garden Board member who submitted the orchard application to the Edy’s contest, said she expects all the recommendations will be approved at the next Orchard Planning Committee meeting. That meeting will be held this Thursday, Aug. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Community …
Monday, July 2, 2012
Nature Center’s signature event will include hundreds of butterflies, birds of prey, a parade and a treasure hunt
It’s the week of July 4, and summer calendars are filling up fast. If you enjoy gardening, here’s a date you’ll want to add to your list of fun activities: Saturday, Aug. 18. Beginning at 10 a.m., 9 a.m. for members, the Dunwoody Nature Center will host its signature event, the Butterfly Festival, in Dunwoody Park. The highlight of the festival will be a 20x20-foot walk-through tent filled with hundreds of butterflies. The butterflies will be loose and flitting about, feeding on fruit and nectar-producing flowers. Visitors will also be able to get in on the act and feed them from Q-tips dipped in red Gatorade. Representatives from the company that will supply the butterflies, Greathouse Butterfly Farm in Earleton, Fla., will be on hand to …
Monday, June 18, 2012
Volunteers have grown, collected or inspired donations of 2,011 pounds of food to Malachi’s Storehouse in first six months of the year
Volunteers at the Garden of Eatin’ at Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church have reached their “Ton for Hunger” goal before the year is even at the halfway mark. With almost two weeks left in June, Dunwoody’s well-known urban farmer Pattie Baker and other dedicated volunteers have grown, collected, or inspired the donation of 2,011 pounds of fruit and produce worth $10,055. The food has been donated to Malachi’s Storehouse, the food pantry at the church on North Peachtree Road. Organic Farm Consultant Rod Pittman put the garden over its goal when he arrived at Saint Patrick’s last Wednesday afternoon with 50 pounds of cucumbers he raised at the Veggie Patch Farm in Commerce. The donated food, said Baker, comes primarily from four sources: …
Friday, April 6, 2012
No "definitive leads" yet on who vandalized the garden at Brook Run Park
The Dunwoody Police Department is performing a full-scale investigation of the vandalism at the community garden at Brook Run Park, but so far investigators haven't had any strong leads, according to police. "The information we have gotten has been vague," said Officer Timothy Fecht. "We have no definitive leads at this time." Detective Jesus Maldonado is heading up the investigation. Information about vandalism at Brook Run has been coming in to investigators, aided by the high-profile nature of the case, Fecht said. Media outlets across Atlanta reported the destruction of fencing, trellises and vegetables in the garden that occurred late Friday or early Saturday. The community garden was planning before the incident to donate many of the…
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Reward increases to $1,500 for information
The reward for information leading to the arrest of those who vandalized the community garden in Brook Run Park last weekend has tripled to $1,500, according to Dunwoody Police. The vandalism at the community garden is just the latest in crime problems and mischief at Brook Run Park, said police. The vandalism at the community garden late Friday or early Satuday included ripping down fencing, damaging trellises and destroying vegetables that were growing in the garden and headed for a local food pantry. Dunwoody Police reported on March 27 that people had been in the nearby dog park at Brook Run Park and lit dog excrement on fire. The police say that they are actively investigating each incident of vandalism at the park and haven't ruled …
Monday, April 2, 2012
Vandalized garden is getting cleaned up and being replanted
It didn’t take long for Dunwoody’s community garden to get things turned around. Vandals ransacked the garden in Brook Run Park late Friday night or early Saturday morning, breaking fencing, tearing up signs, destroying trellises and strewing around lettuce that was ready to be harvested for a local food pantry. On Monday, it was a different story. Volunteers with the garden, about 15 to 20 of them, pitched in over the weekend and Monday and repaired the fencing, threw away ruined vegetables into compost bins, and turned an eye toward the spring and summer crops that will soon be planted there. “If you were to go over to the garden now, you wouldn’t be able to tell,” said Don Converse, head of the board of the nonprofit Community Garden. “…
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Dunwoody police are investigating the overnight incident.
The Community Garden in Brook Run Park suffered extensive damage from vandals sometime Friday night or before dawn Saturday. Most of the beds in the garden, which last year contributed donations of more than 3,000 pounds of produce to families in need in Dunwoody, appeared to have suffered varying degrees of damage. “This looks like wanton destruction to me,” Garden President Don Converse said as he surveyed the damage. “This is just such a shame,” said Nicole Maslanka, who coordinates the production of the food pantry beds at the garden and in the park greenhouse a short distance away. Other garden members expressed the same shock and disbelief as they began arriving at the garden throughout the day as word of the vandalism filtered out …
Pattie Baker
10:42 am on Monday, June 18, 2012
Tom: Thanks for all the support you continually show for our food pantry efforts. I'd like to add just a bit more detail; James Tola and Nancy Amstrong are the leaders of the food pantry garden at St. Pat's. I am simply the person who keeps trying to make sure the good news gets communicated! Also, re: my dear friend David, I've actually known him for about 8 years--he is an actor and was in … more ›