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The Archive

Links to news items of general interest featured earlier on this site.

Items specific to individual gardens are indexed on the main Tour The Gardens page.

2011

12-22-11 Screening worm castings: Here's how to do it.

11-19-11 Volunteers harvest the greens at a plot planted by Renfrow Hardware.

11-17-11 An update on the Thompson Family Focus garden from Garden Leader Laura Dobson.

10-22-11 Service Juris Day in pictures by Gaby Vincent.

10-16-11 Lawyers and their families will help out in the Charlotte Correctional Center Garden on Service Juris Day.

10-1-11 Scenes from the 2011 Garden Party.

9-7-11 A spruce-up day is planned to prepare the Demonstration Garden for the annual Garden Party.

8-28-11 Garden Coordinator Henry Owen figures in a gardening story in the South Charlotte News.

8-25-11 The Flaming Robo Duckies help out in the garden.

8-1-11 The July harvest: 3,800 pounds.

7-24-11 An Observer update on the impact of the Billingsville School Garden.

7-9-11 Canning classes. Here's how to register.

6-23-11 Henry Owen talks about the garden effort at Charlotte Correctional Center. In Diary at June 23.

6-22-11 Marking a milestone in the 2011 harvest, compared to 2010.

6-14-11 Cook's Community Garden featured in Today's Charlotte Woman's magazine.

6-10-11 Bees populate the Demonstration Garden hives.

6-5-11 Veteran community gardener Don Boekelheide writes about Reedy Creek in Lake Norman News; cache here.

6-1-11 An interim harvest report.

5-6-11 Workshops will cover basics of the summer garden.

4-28-11 A Sterling report.

4-27-11 South Charlotte News profiles Thom Duncan and the garden collaborative.

4-23-11 Plants donated from Hot As Possible will go into gardens across the community next week.

4-18-11 A greenhouse was donated today to the Demonstration Garden.

3-19-11 Pictures from the Spring Gardening Workshop at Cooks Community Garden.

3-6-11 Spring Gardening Workshop to be held March 19 at Cooks Community Garden.

3-4-11 A link to SouthPark Magazine's article on the gardens.

1-20-11 Garden coordinators meet.

2010

12-29-10 Our holiday greetings.

12-24-10 The Charlotte Observer profiles the Friendship Gardens project. Cache.

11-18-10 Total deliveries of produce to Friendship Trays cross the 1,000 pound milestone.

11-18-10 Will Walton completed an Eagle Scout project in the Demonstration Garden. See the slideshow.

11-14-10 Covenant Presbyterian volunteers work in the Sterling Garden.

11-8-10 Sterling Garden has a harvest.

11-8-10 A harvest at Seigle Avenue Presbyterian Church garden brings carrots and greens to Friendship Trays.

11-6-10 The Saturday harvest at Matthews Presbyterian Garden.

11-4-10 Patty Henderlite writes for Myers Park Baptist Church's newsletter about the Sedgefield Middle School Garden.

11-4-10 Fall greens at Covenant Presbyterian.

10-29-10 The fall garden at Matthews Presbyterian.

10-13-10 Rich Deming explains the Friendship Gardens strategy at Charlotte's TedX conference.

10-3-10 Click for a video record of the 2010 Friendship Trays Garden Party.

10-1-10 Radishes harvested at the Covenant Prebyterian Church Garden were delivered to Friendship Trays.

8-27-10 Tour the McAlpine Greenway Garden.

8-18-10 Tour the Frazier Park Garden uptown.

8-16-10 Six area gardens are on the Can You Dig It Community Garden Tour.

8-13-10 Tour the Huntingtowne Farms Community Garden.

8-6-10 Volunteers from Ernst & Young and Hands On Charlotte double the garden at Sterling Elementary School.

2009

9-11-09 Last day in the startup 2009 Demonstration Garden.

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