Building of Raised Beds and Garden Work Day This Weekend, Oct. 15 & 16th

Building Raised Beds Saturday, October 15th Please come join your fellow garden members this Saturday, October 15 at 10am to help complete the Raised Beds for our garden plots. This project will help us regularize the size of the beds, fight erosion and path encroachment, and make it easier for gardeners to add fresh compost. […]

Garden Work Day this Saturday and Organic Gardening Workshop on Sunday

Our second Garden Day is this Saturday at 10am. This weekend we’ll be focusing on kids, so bring your little ones. At the Annual Meeting we discussed finishing the raised beds. We need help collecting the materials and planning. If you can help, please let the Alison, the plot coordinator, know via email - [email protected]. […]

Raised Plot Beds - It’s Happening!

Lots of hands (and paws) at work this week in the garden prepping for and building the new raised plot beds. Come by the garden this Sunday, May 16th, around 11AM if you’d like to help out.

DIY Soil Testing

If you would like to test your individual plots for lead, contact University of Massachusetts Soil testing lab (see below). It costs about $10. Last year the BQLT did some soil testing. Our pathways have some lead in the soil. The community and kids plots have almost no lead. Samples from all the other plots […]