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 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, July 9, 2012
Support from numerous Dunwoody groups, global outreach led to the victory in national contest. A time for the orchard groundbreaking has yet to be announced.
Thanks to the Community Garden, a fruit orchard will soon be growing in Dunwoody's Brook Run Park. The Community Garden won the orchard last week in the Communities Take Root national competition. The program, which is supported by Edy’s Fruit Bars and the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, awards fruit orchards to communities across the country as a way to beautify and strengthen communities and to encourage healthy eating habits. The Community Garden received 33,655 votes and finished in third place in second round voting that ended Monday night. The first three winners in this round received more votes than any of the five first round winners, which means the Community Garden has received the third most votes of all the gardens in the …
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, May 28, 2012
First five of 17 winners will be announced Thursday; Garden in 8th place, hopes to be one of four second round winners
The Community Garden is in a strong position to win a fruit orchard as the Edy’s Fruit Bars Communities Take Root contest enters the last week of the first round of voting. The first five of 17 gardens that will win a fruit orchard from Edy’s Fruit Bars will be announced Thursday. The other 12 winners will be announced in groups of four on June 30, July 31 and August 31. All 17 winners will receive a fruit tree orchard, irrigation system, a groundbreaking party and Edy’s Fruit Bars to celebrate their new orchard. Also, to ensure that every applicant has a starting point to grow an orchard, Edy’s will donate three fruit trees to all participating organizations that do not win an orchard. The five leading first round gardens and…
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 ›