Judea Garden Archives - Steep Rock Association

19 Feb Judea Garden

Posted at 13:18h in Judea Garden, Volunteers

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30 Sep Introducing Harvest to Home: A Community Initiative to Fight Food Insecurity

Posted at 13:39h in Donor Impact, Judea Garden

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26 May Judea Garden kicks off 15th Anniversary Season

Posted at 12:04h in Events, Judea Garden, Volunteers

Judea Garden – The Giving Garden, a Steep Rock Association Community Project, is thrilled to announce the commencement of its 15th season and the celebration of the Garden, the People and their Stories. This remarkable milestone highlights a decade and a half of hard work,...

29 Sep In the Eyes of a Cottontail

Posted at 09:57h in Judea Garden, Natural Beauty, Wildlife

Written by Skylar King, 2022 Judea Garden Summer Intern ...

11 Jan Up Your Gardening Game in 2022

Posted at 10:05h in Judea Garden, Volunteers

Up Your Gardening Game in 2022Cross off two of your new year goals by growing your own organic food. You can make the world greener by reducing pesticide use, fuel for transportation and food waste (who could throw away something you’ve grown) while improving your health and wellbeing by spending more time outside connecting with the earth, eating super fresh vegetables, and feeling a sense of...

13 Dec Judea Garden Receives “Friend of the Green” Award

Posted at 09:18h in Judea Garden, Volunteers

Volunteers in Judea Garden during fall cleanup. The Friend of the Green Award is presented annually by The Frederick Gunn School to honor an individual or group that has contributed to the well-being of the town of Washington through their volunteer efforts. This year, in lieu...

02 Nov Climate Change in the Garden

Posted at 12:30h in Judea Garden

April Showers Bring May Flowers? Maybe not anymore. Climate change has shifted the weather patterns of old so that current gardeners can no longer rely on the patterns and rhythms of old. In 2020, Judea Garden saw a hard, killing frost on September 19th. In 2021, that...

15 Jul Observations from Judea Garden

Posted at 11:11h in Judea Garden

Did you realize that Milkweed has a fragrance? Though we allow Milkweed to grow wherever possible in Judea Garden (it is the single most important source of food for the monarch butterfly), we had never noticed its beautiful fragrance until recently weeding right beside a...

16 Aug Seed Saving

Posted at 09:02h in Judea Garden

Judea Garden has also begun to further incorporate the practice of seed saving. This practice is relatively easy, although it of course depends on the plant. We can look at this process through the example of the Arugula grown at Judea Garden. It is first planted in...

14 Aug Leaving them to Seed

Posted at 08:41h in Judea Garden

In Judea Garden some plants produce many seeds naturally that will come back year after year if you don’t clean out the beds. One example of this is the Ground Cherries found in our garden. This is a type of husked fruit that ripens as it...