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Category: GCMGA Volunteer Projects

Helping Hands

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Under the guidance of Freda Steward, fourteen members and neighbors helped tidy up Rick and Sandy Krause’s yard. Helping Hands is a new project of the association designed to get a member back on track with their yard.

Bluebird Grant Workshop May 24th 2022

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Seventeen of us had a great morning at the Community Garden at Snellville learning how to make predator guards for bluebird houses.  These guards prevent raccoons, squirrels, and snakes from reaching the nests.  Terry Dempsey (GPLT) and Carol Hassell (GCMGA & GPLT) let the teaching and all of us shared in the different parts of building these guards.  This year’s grant was part two of raising awareness of the importance – and enjoyment – of having bluebirds in our environment.  The houses were built last year in July.  The Community Garden received a second bluebird house and it was installed today by Wes Nettleton and Martha Whitman.  Other houses are going to other community gardens, butterfly gardens, parks and schools.

SE Growers Co-Op

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The Co-op received one of GCMGA’s grants for 2021.  According to Jackie Daniell, Master Gardener Extension Volunteer (MGEV) and project leader for the Co-op Garden which produces fruits and vegetables for the Southeastern Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry in Grayson, when you are faced with raised beds and limited space to grow food crops you should be judicious in how you plan, schedule, and allot space in your garden. This is particularly important when you are trying to feed as many people as possible with the resources at hand. In addition to space saving with plants growing closer together, if you know what plants get along together and enhance or antagonize one another’s growth you can increase your food production with intercropping and side crops using companion planting. This goes beyond just the basic rotation of crops and consideration for plant families. For example, everyone’s favorite garden veggie is tomatoes, but if…

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Our mission is to serve as stewards of the environment; operate in cooperation with UGA, the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and the Gwinnett County Extension Service; and voluntarily educate the public of Gwinnett County, Georgia about horticultural practices that will foster both a healthy environment and beautiful gardens.

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