Save the Date: Grand Opening Sunday, April 18th at noon.
This is an update for the Aptos Community Garden
Please join us for a blessing of the garden by Pastor Dale Sollum-Brotherton. Come and meet our donors, Board Members, local officials, and the people who have signed up to have garden plots. Guy Routley will be providing music and there will be light refreshments. Trent and Linda McNair will be providing free organic starts for the plots grown at their business Surf City Growers. Thanks to Board Member Michael Olson, Pastor Dale and Trent did a live interview with him at the KSCO radio station. Linda McNair prepared a news release for local papers, with a very fine article appearing in the March 15, 2010 Aptos Times.
Progress is being made on the layout of the garden. The donated pump from Capitola Pump is now hooked up to the cistern. Under the direction of CLC member Austin Pruitt and electrician Dan Bronson from A-Plus Electric, we are in the process of running power from the gazebo down to the garden to power the pump. CLC members Gene Sanden and Mark Zabel have also provided support for this project. Gene has collected over a dozen 55-gallon barrels donated by Smith and Vandiver. We will be using these for additional water collection and distribution in the garden. Smith and Vandiver are located at 480 Airport Blvd. in Watsonville. The barrels are provided to the public for free, and they qualify you for a $25.00 rebate if your water is provided by Soquel Creek Water District.
We are so thankful to the businesses and individuals who have donated to make this project a success. We look forward to thanking you in person April 18th at the Grand Opening. This is truly a community garden project.
Our business donors include:
Capitola Pump
Central Home Supply
Dirt Works Earth Engineering
Earth Works
Ecology by Design
Hoge, Fenton, Jones, and Appel, Inc.
Jeff Taldmadge Construction
Lakeside Organic Gardens
Las Animas Concrete
Monument Lumber
Rotary Club of Aptos/Capitola
Rotary Club of Santa Cruz, Sunrise
Sand Channel Greens
Smith and Vandiver
Surf City Growers
Warren Gilbert, Architect
Tags: Aptos Community Garden, community garden, locally grown, Surf City Growers
