Article List
DateSubjectAuthor
11/11/2022 RETURNING HOME TO THE GARDENS
Okra is still blooming [November 11, 2022 -- Planted April 15, 2022 AMAZING TO RETURN TO THE GARDEN AFTER TWO WEEKS In part of my front yard I have a modified... 		Liz Berry
10/20/2022 Scarecrow Appears in Garland Community Garden!
New Resident in the Garland Community Garden--a female fashionista Scarecrow. SCARECROWS Many Gardens have a scarecrow and now the Garland Community Garden has... 		Liz Berry
10/14/2022 TAKE A NEARCATION TO THE TEXAS STATE FAIR
NEARCATION - Like a vacation only near to home, shorter, and much less expensive Yesterday Charlie and I took a nearcation. We went to the Texas State Fair.... 		Liz Berry
10/14/2022 UPDATE ON MONARCH CATERPILLAR
SHE WAS BORN ["eclosed"] Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on... 		Liz Berry
10/8/2022 Monarchs have arrived in Garland, Texas!
Garland Community Garden- Garland Texas October 8, 2022 1PM This afternoon I counted 25 Monarch butterflies in a Zinnia patch near our Monarch wings sign.... 		Liz Berry
10/3/2022 HOW I LEARNED ABOUT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
St. Joseph's Cathedral in the Cotton Patch near Munday, Texas In 2000, when I still lived by the beach in Southern California my mom called me as she often... 		Liz Berry
10/2/2022 At last! The wings are here.
No, you can’t eat them! At last! The Monarch Wings are installed in the Garland Community Garden. Yesterday, October 1, Charlie and I installed them. It... 		Liz Berry
9/9/2022 COMMUNITY GARDEN DEFINED
WHAT IS A COMMUNITY GARDEN? Judging from several posts that appeared recently on NEXT DOOR, there are quite a few folks in Garland who do not understand what... 		Liz Berry
8/27/2022 Beautiful Garland Community Garden and Beautiful People
THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE and the overwhelming majority of people who visit it are beautiful and like the garden itself, they teach me... 		Liz Berry
8/21/2022 CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF STEALING FROM A COMMUNITY GARDEN
UPDATE AUGUST 23: We filed a Garland police report on them this morning. At the least it will establish an official record. We are hoping it will enable us... 		Liz Berry
8/21/2022 ANOTHER THEFT AT THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
ONCE AGAIN SOMEONE STEALS FOOD THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM AT THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN. On May 22 of this year someone came and stripped 95% of the leaves... 		Liz Berry
8/17/2022 THERMOMETERS IN THE GARDEN
HOW HOT IS It REALLY? [As far as a vegetable garden goes, it's hot enough to water twice a day.] When I do things as I did yesterday, I soothe my bruised ego... 		Liz Berry
8/14/2022 Garland Community Event Saturday August 20 at 9AM
FOOD FOR HUMMINGBIRDS AND PEOPLE. BRING A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM. [canned goods; milk that is packaged for non-refrigerated shelf life; boxes of raisins,... 		Liz Berry
8/13/2022 GROWING POTATOES FROM A FIVE-GALLON BUCKET
EXPANDING THE CONCEPT FOR WHAT YOU CAN GROW IN A FIVE-GALLON BUCKET. You don’t need a lot of space to grow vegetables—even if you live in an apartment or... 		Liz Berry
8/13/2022 LOVING THE GARLAND COMMUNITY GARDEN
WHY DO I LOVE THE GARDEN SO MUCH? Everything that you need to learn about anything that is important can be found in nature. In an urban setting, the closest... 		Liz Berry
8/11/2022 HEMP IS LEGAL TO GROW IN THE USA
HEY Y'ALL, IT'S LEGAL TO GROW HEMP IN TEXAS! Actually, growing hemp is legal in all of the USA. President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law in... 		Liz Berry
8/9/2022 UPDATE ON THE GREAT OKRA EXPERIMENT
Okra and lots more to come! Notice the cut stems on the plant. This is where previous okra pods were harvested. I never thought about how an okra grows until... 		Liz Berry
8/3/2022 EDIBLE WEEDS
EDIBLE WEEDS Sometimes it takes a long time for an idea to manifest into reality. And so it is with a brainstorm I had several years ago—create a bed filled... 		Liz Berry
7/29/2022 WHAT’S UP WITH THE PUSH TO GET PEOPLE TO EAT BUGS?
Fried Insects are already available as street food in Germany By Wilhelm Thomas Fiege / insektenwirtschaft.de - Own work CC BY-SA 4.0,... 		Liz Berry
7/26/2022 Seed Libraries
Libraries are great places where knowledge is stored and shared with communities. In the past few years the concept of library has been expanded. We now have... 		Liz Berry