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Annual Houseplant Swap + BINGO!
Harvest Fest Social
Twas a lovely a’Fair!
Highlights from the AGA Agriculture and Gardening Fair
2021 Avondale Gardening and Agriculture Fair – August 29th – 12-5PM – 3300 N Whipple/Various Locations
Come tour Avondale gardens and learn about all things urban agriculture and sustainability. Whether you’re an apartment dweller, a homeowner, or a small business, we’ve got something for you!
Things like: Make your own non-toxic natural dyes; plan a drip irrigation system; attract birds and pollinators to your yard; learn homebrewing and growing; resurrect your houseplants; make seed bombs; harvest and process medicinal herbs; discover the benefits of fermenting foods; learn beekeeping and much more!
It’s all happening Sunday, August 29th, from 12pm to 5pm in a walkable area of East Avondale. Meet your neighbors and join our support network for new and experienced “farmers” and makers.
Get a virtual map from this event page starting Friday, August 27th or grab a paper map from Concordia Place at 3300 N. Whipple starting at noon on the 29th.
RSVP on the Facebook Event: RSVP HERE FOR UPDATES
See ya soon! #AGAF21 #AvondaleGardeningAlliance #AvondaleGardeners
*If you’re interested in volunteering, please reach out! The Avondale Gardening Alliance is completely volunteer run and all time and funding is donated! We can always use more hands on deck. AvondaleGardeners@gmail.com
Avondale Garden & Agriculture Fair Sun Aug 29th!
Third annual AGAF is in planning phase! YAY! Neighbors are volunteering yards, skills, and demonstration topics. Reach out if you’d like to highlight a skill you’ve learned or are well seasoned on and/or if you’d like to join the steering committee.
Seedling. Swap. Group.
2021 closed. Final swaps via centralized locations Sunday May 16th.
Hard to quantify how many seedlings we as a group swapped, but we had over 500 posts @ plants and 180 neighbors swapping.
Check out Avondale Gardeners Facebook group or contact AvondaleGardeners@gmail.com for more info.
Let’s get engaged!
You want TikTok? We got TikTok. You want Insta? We got Insta. We got FB; we’ve got a website that’s updated often; we’ve got an actual garden; we’ve got IRL (workshops, workdays, social social-distanced meet ups). Oh, snap… we’ve even got Slack. Join us. Watch us. Engage. Join us. avondalegardeners
2020: Weird and Kind of Wonderful
The pandemic presented challenges in 2020! However, AGA has remained active throughout, hosting virtual events/lectures/zooms; some with socially distanced COVID-smart protocol in-person components. Most of our outreach and event planning has been posted on our Facebook Group. Recapping the year that was:
Gardening 101: Let’s Talk Basics 4/23
Let’s Talk Backyard Chickens! 4/30
Soil! The Most Important Part 5/7
How to Care For Your New Seedlings 5/14
Gardening 101: I Got Plants In Dirt. Now What? 5/21
Let’s Talk Rain Gardens! 5/28
Pests and Disease 6/4
Urban Pollinators: Call for Citizen Scientists! 6/6
Shade Garden Workshop 6/11
Pollinators! 6/18
Weeeeeds- How To Identify And Conquer Them 6/25
Fertilizer! When? How? What? 7/2
Beneficial Weeds- The Girl Scout Badge You Need 7/16
Become A Seed Saver! 7/23
AGA: Scheming for the Future 8/6
End of Season Gardening 9/17
AGA Planning Meeting 10/8
Let’s Talk Food Preservation! 10/22
Houseplant Bingo 12/20 (reoccurring)
Houseplant Repotting 101, by Rooted
Winter sowing with Betty! 1/21/21
Worm Composting! 2/11/21
Pruning 101 2/19/21
Seed starting chat 3/11/21
Seed Swap 2/23
Seedling Swap 5/17
Carter’s Natives For Dry Avondale Basements Giveaway! 6/21
Harvest Spirit Week 9/28
Pollinator Prairie Patch Natives sale 10/4
Houseplant Swap 12/18
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