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Fall at McDaniel Farm
Our GCMG/Gwinnett Extension Project at Gwinnett County’s McDaniel Farm Park is wrapping up for 2011 as our volunteers dig into fall. Spring bulbs were added today at the main parking lot entrance. Our big fall rennovation of the Farm House foundation shrubs included the use of the park’s tractor and a lot of help from the park’s maintenance heroes, Joe [...]
McDaniel Farm Projects Winds Down for the Season
Gwinnett County’s McDaniel Farm Project Master Gardener volunteers will be cleaning up the demonstration garden and harvesting the last of this year’s produce during September. For the 2011 growing season, volunteers have harvested over 600 pounds of produce making this a record setting year for the garden. All harvested produce is donated to help feed the hungry in [...]
McDaniel Farm Park Update
Here are some pictures taken out at McDaniel Farm Park in the garden today. We harvested about 60#’s of produce to send over to Annandale Village, our Plant-a-row for the Hungry location here in Gwinnett. We now have a total of 395#’s of produce harvested and donated to-date! The garden is looking great and we [...]
Ed Saulvester’s work with Habitat for Humanity
Ed Saulvester has been part of the Home Dedication program with Habitat for Humanity for many, many years, teaching each ‘soon-to-be’ homeowner about taking care of their landscape. He also incorporated into his class the subject of how to care and the proper use of their garden equipment since many homeowners he had noticed were [...]