Wazi Lane
Custer, SD 57730
http://custercommunitygarden.com/
The Custer Community Organic Gardens’ mission is to provide residents with an opportunity to come together for the purpose of food production, environmental education and to encourage multi-generational gatherings. For more information, call (605)673-4824 or send an e-mail to CCOG@custercommunitygarden.com.
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Custer-Community-Garden/114043475292053
Chris Zdorovtsov of SDSU Extension sent us this message:
There will be a Youth Gardening Webinar May 16th starting at 3:45 pm CDT. These Webinars are perfect for schoolteachers and afterschool and summer garden program leaders – basically anyone who works with youth and would like to see youth step outside and embrace gardening.
The Webinars will run the last Wednesday of the month, 3:45-4:45 p.m. An additional Webinar will run during the growing season. Webinars are an hour long and will typically have two presentation topics running 15 to 20 minutes each with about 20 minutes for a question answer session within the learning community.
Presentation 1 Ages & Stages in the Garden by Marilyn Rasmussen, 4-H/Youth Development Specialist, SDSU Extension
Presentation 2 Food Safety in the Garden by Lavonne Meyer, Food Safety Field Specialist, SDSU Extension
Discussion Time to Get Growing- status updates
Click here to join the webinar. You can join the session up to 30 minutes before it starts.
Jillian Anawaty sent us this post:
Announcing the 3rd Annual Sturgis EarthFest
Attention all Earth and Nature Enthusiasts
As summer approaches, area residents and visitors have many opportunities to, as Sturgis EarthFest puts it, “celebrate the abundance of nature and life in the Black Hills.”
Planning for the Third Annual Sturgis EarthFest is well underway with intentions to raise awareness and connect the community around a love, enjoyment, and respect for the planet and each other.
Sturgis EarthFest is a free celebration of green, local, and healthy living in the Black Hills with a farmers-market-type set-up of local foods and goods, live acoustic music, demonstrations and hands-on learning seminars for children and adults. Topics include local resources, gardening, composting, healthy eating, bee keeping, recycling, and outdoor activities. There will be on-going activities and projects throughout the day.
The festival will be held Saturday, June 16th at the park next to the Sturgis Community Center, 1401 Lazelle Street. If there’s rain, EarthFest will move inside the Community Center.
Sturgis EarthFest is accepting applications for vendors and presenters who offer earthy wisdom and/or have something to sell: food, an idea, or a product with an underlying organic, green, local, sustainable goodness. Applications can be submitted at SturgisEarthFest.com.
“We want to bring together some fantastic people who enjoy and showcase the goodness of the earth and renewal,” says Jillian Anawaty, Sturgis EarthFest co-organizer.
What: Sturgis EarthFest 2012
When: Saturday, June 16th from 10 am to 5 pm
Where: Park next to the Sturgis Community Center, 1401 Lazelle Street
Cost: FREE
Contacts:
Jillian Anawaty Herben Legends, Vibrant Life (605) 484-5401
Scottie Bruch Sturgis Yoga (605) 490-7972
Michelle Grosek Bear Butte Gardens (605) 490-2919
Area gardeners will soon have a great opportunity to get together, share plants, and acquire new plants at very low cost thanks to the Pennington County Master Gardeners and the Rapid City Garden Club. The fourteenth annual Rapid City Plant Share will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at the 4-H building at the Central States Fairgrounds in Rapid City. Plant check-in will be from 7:30 to 9:30. Those contributing plants will receive a single coupon for four plants and can purchase additional coupons for $1. Please label the type of plants you bring. If the variety is unknown, include as much information as is known such as flower color, height, etc. Plant pick-up will begin at 10:00 and will proceed in order according to coupon number. (The first people to drop off plants will be the first people to choose plants.) Bring buckets if you would like to collect city compost that will be available. There will also be a free table for gardeners to share other materials such as gardening magazines, pots, or tools.
Dakota Local Food Network will be there with free seeds to share that remained from our Seed Exchange in February. Keep in mind that we plan to make our winter seed exchange an annual event. This is a great way to obtain seeds that are not only free, but are also adapted to our area and so are more likely to thrive in our conditions. This fall we hope that area gardeners will gather up some of their seeds to share with others and trade for something new. Meanwhile, we hope to see you at the Plant Share.
I confess that I often feel intimidated when faced with the task of preparing a meal using a wild/local protein such as trout, venison, elk, etc. They aren’t proteins that I prepare frequently and I don’t want to waste the protein or my time if the dish fails.
Help is here for people like me! Wild game cooking classes will be offered at the new South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Outdoor Campus-West in Rapid City. The next cooking class will be offered on Tuesday, May 8th. The featured proteins will be trout and salmon. For more details, visit the Outdoor Campus-West website.
