Sunshine Weekly Weeder Newsletter
2 June 2016
www.sunshinecommunitygardens.org
MICAH 6 Food Pantry Project News:
Our first Thursday spring delivery to the Micah 6 Food Pantry will be coming up tomorrow, June 5. Donations will be needed by 2:30 PM Thursday for the afternoon delivery. We have already harvested over 25 pounds of tomatoes and squash with more to be harvested today and Thursday morning. We need some volunteers to help harvest the eggplants, peppers, tomatoes and more squash in the Micah 6 garden (but not the butter nut squash yet!). Also gardeners are encouraged to donate what they can by washing their donations, if needed, and placing them either in the refrigerator or in the cool room. There are clear plastic bags on a roll in the cool room. Also, we will be making a second delivery Saturday morning around 9:00 AM.
As vacations begin, we ask gardeners to consider donating at least some of your produce to this food pantry. You may identify your plot by number by putting an adhesive dot on the map in your plot AND placing a flag (located in the corner of the cool room) in your plot. This helps the harvester to be sure to harvest from the correct plot! Please write instructions for volunteer harvesters on the white board in the cool room and include beginning and ending dates.
We really need harvesters and delivery folks especially during the summer months. You won't have to deliver frequently. Those who volunteer to support this project at any time are given credit on their required service hours. We know the weather is challenging at present. Folks' need for nutritious food is ongoing no matter what the weather!
If you are available to assist with harvesting or delivering, please let Dana Kuykendall (kuykendall@austin.rr.com), 512.496.6575 or Mary Gifford (mgifford@austin.rr.com), 512.453.9742 know if you can help in any way.
Food Preservation Workshop
Texas A&M AgrilLife Extention Office. 1600-B Smith Rd. 78721
Saturday, June 4th. 9:30 - 12:00
Registration Deadline - 6/3/2016
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office of Travis County will conduct a Food Preservation Workshop on Saturday 6/04/16 at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office located at 1600-B Smith Rd., Austin TX 78721 from 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Topics covered will include basics of drying fruits, vegetables and herbs.
It will be taught by Dr. Jenna Anding, AgriLife Extension Specialist and Associate Head of the Nutrition and Food Science Department at Texas A&M University in College Station.
The cost of the class is $40.00 per person and the class will be limited to 30 individuals. The workshop is open to adults and youth, who are 8 years of age and up.
Register online at
https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/Travis.
Click on Events at the top of the website and then go to Filter and
type June. Then you can select the Food Preservation Workshop to register.
Register by phone: 979-845-2604
For more information, contact Sonia Coyle, Travis County Extension Agent at 512-854-9605. Participants with special needs requiring auxiliary aid should contact the Travis County office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service prior to the program in order for appropriate accommodations to be arranged.
6th Annual Tomato Tasting
Our 6th Annual Tomato Tasting event will be held on Saturday, June 11, from 9-11 am. Please come and taste what's ripe. We will have paper bags in the trailer so you can drop off tomatoes starting on Thursday, June 9, or bring 'em on Saturday, June 1. Please label the bag with the variety and your name (optional). If you grew potatoes and/or peppers this year and would like to show them off, please bring them to the tasting on Saturday. We will have a form you can fill out with the details of how you grew them.
We also need volunteers to help set up tables and slice tomatoes. If you're interested in volunteering, please contact Kay McMurry (scg.plots@gmail.com) or Randy Thompson (jartdaht@gmail.com).
Gail Reese will be conducting the potato show-and-tell, which was a big hit last year. Steve Uecker will be in charge of the pepper tasting.
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Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Garden
Officers
- President - Jeff Monks garden@jeffmonks.com
- Vice President - Jim Willmann jhwillmann@gmail.com
- Secretary - Shannon Posern shannonposern@gmail.com
- Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
- Director - Vacant
- Director - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
- Director - Katy Davis katydavis@austin.rr.com
Zone Coordinators
- Zone 1, Martin Morales marmoral512@gmail.com
- Zone 2, Katy Davis katydavis@austin.rr.com
- Zone 3, Ludmila Voskov lvoskov@austin.rr.com
- Zone 4, Ila Falvey ila.falvey@gmail.com
- Zone 5, Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
- Zone 6, Charlotte Jernigan charlotte@cybermesa.com
- Zone 7, Jing Li jingli80@yahoo.com
- Zone 8, Irina Kadukova irina@austinshrooms.com
- Zone 9, Kerry Howell casonhowell@gmail.com
- Zone 10, Christopher Schroder christopher.s.schroder@gmail.com
Other Coordinators
- Weekly Weeder Newsletter - Margaret Powis purslane2013@gmail.com
- Plant Sale - Michael Hall fibercable@austin.rr.com
- TSBVI Liason & Volunteer Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
- Plot Rental - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
- Compost Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
- Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jennifer.woertz@urs.com
- Education Committee - Shannon Posern shannonposern@gmail.com
- Carpentry & Repairs - Robert Jarry r.jarry@sbcglobal.net
- Water Leak Repairs - Steve Schulz sschulz784@aol.com
- Tools & Wheelbarrows - Bob Easter beaster1@austin.rr.com
- Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jennifer.woertz@urs.com
- Website Coordinator - Sharon Rempert scgardenweb@gmail.com
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