Monday, July 16, 2012
Community leaders join team to select plants, design layout for fruit trees, bushes in Brook Run Park
The Dunwoody Community Garden has received an enthusiastic response to an invitation it extended to gardeners and community leaders to form an Orchard Planning Team. The garden won a fruit orchard earlier this month in the second round of voting in an Edy's Fruit Bars national competition. The program, which is supported by Edy’s and the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, is awarding 17 fruit orchards to communities across the country as a way to beautify and strengthen communities and to encourage healthy eating habits. The goal of the team will be to decide on an orchard layout and to select trees and shrubs for the orchard. A preliminary basic plan for the orchard, which will be planted at the Community Garden in Brook Run Park, can be …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Vendors to mark return to historic farmhouse with a hoedown; July 11 is last day at Dunwoody Village
It’s official. The Dunwoody Green Market will relocate to the Spruill Gallery on July 18. Paula Guilbeau, market president, and Robert Kinsey, Chief Executive Officer of the Spruill Center for the Arts, signed papers agreeing to the move and had them notarized last Wednesday at Piedmont Bank in Dunwoody Village. Guilbeau then obtained an administrative permit from the city allowing the market to do business at the gallery. The permit is a Special Administrative Permit that allows temporary outdoor sales of merchandise from July 18 through November 21 at the Spruill Gallery, said Edie Daman, Marketing and Public Relations manager for the City of Dunwoody. The market will need to reapply for a permit to do business in 2013, Damann added. “…
Monday, June 11, 2012
Date for move is still to be determined; July 11 is Market’s last scheduled day in Dunwoody Village Post Office parking lot
The Dunwoody Green Market is returning to its roots. The Market Board of Directors voted last Wednesday to relocate to the Spruill Gallery at the corner of Ashford Dunwoody Road and Meadow Lane. The date when the move will take effect has not been determined. The market’s last scheduled day in its current location at the Dunwoody Village Post Office parking lot is July 11. Vendors are being forced to move because the financially troubled federal agency is closing the Shallowford Road postal facility. The Dunwoody Village Post Office needs the space where the market operates from mid-April to mid-November for parking for employees who have been working at the Shallowford building. “We are definitely going back to The Spruill farm house,” …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Gift of two vegetable plots solves problem of shady growing area for crew of nearby fire house
Usually it’s the firefighters who answer the alarm and save those in trouble. This time it was the firefighters who needed help, and a Dunwoody Community Garden volunteer who rushed to the rescue. Some of the crew from DeKalb's Station 18, near Brook Run Park, came to the Garden’s annual plant sale at the greenhouse complex in Brook Run Park several weeks ago to buy a few tomato plants. They remarked that they would like to purchase other types of vegetable plants in addition to the tomatoes. But, they said, the area around the station doesn’t get enough sunlight for vegetables to grow well there. They told the right person. Diana Wood, Dunwoody Community Garden greenhouse manager and organizer of the plant sale, told the firefighters …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Decision could come this week, city manager says, as Post Office grants vendors a 30-day reprieve
Dunwoody's Green Market has been granted a surprise 30-day stay at its Post Office parking lot site, but the city is hoping there will be a resolution to the vacate order this week that will keep the popular farmers' market in Dunwoody Village. City Manager Warren Hutmacher shared that information at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association Sunday night at the North DeKalb Cultural Arts Center. Asked after the meeting if a move to privately owned land rather than city, state or federal property would cause zoning issues for the Green Market, Hutmacher said no. Hutmacher said if the market, which operates on Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to noon from mid-April to mid-November, moves into the privately owned …
Pattie Baker
7:43 am on Monday, July 16, 2012
To those on the fruit orchard committee (or anyone interested in adding fruit trees to their garden or landscaping plans)--if you don't already have this list, this is the Atlanta Local Food Initiative's list of fruit trees that it offered at its annual sale. I have heard good reports about these varieties for our local conditions. http://www.atlantalocalfood.org/Files/FruitProductGuide.pdf more ›