John Zon Community Center Community Garden

  • Post published:09/28/2019
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The Pleasant Street Community Garden provided garden plots for over 20 people until that whole site was razed a few years ago. Davis Street School, the surrounding paving and the gardens all disappeared. There was great mourning, but last year the John Zon Community Center was completed. Hedges and trees were planted, and a Meadow Garden was planted by volunteers, but there were no Community Gardens. One could imagine that the Community Garden was just sleeping, because there…

Climate Change Rally Right in Greenfield – September 20, 2019

  • Post published:09/26/2019
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The Climate Change Rally in Greenfield brought many children, inspired by young Greta Thunmberg, to the Greenfield Common on Friday, September 20. The Children and the Adults were all protesting. Our climate is dangerously changing and there are protests this day all around the globe. Some Students went to Boston to participate in the Youth Climate Strike What can we all do?  Vote!  Learn about ways you can stop global warming. We can't leave it all up to…

Industrial Hemp Uses

  • Post published:09/22/2019
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Everybody is talking about hemp. When we recently attended a family gathering in Vermont we talked to three of my young cousins, Heidi, Tammy, and Debby who had planted hemp. A change in the Vermont laws now makes it legal to plant hemp. Four hundred and fifty or so farms are now doing just that. Dairy farming is not as profitable as it was, and hemp is now in demand. Please remember, industrial hemp does not contain THC,…

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – September 15, 2019

  • Post published:09/15/2019
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On this Garden Blogger's Bloom Day I went out into the garden in the mist to take my photos. These asters just started blooming on the 'hellstrip.'  A few other plants are  blooming like the coneflower and a pink phlox. The Firelight hydrangea (one of three hydrangeas) is getting pinker every day. Blooming flowers around her include a helenium, Grandpa Ott's morning glory, a delphinium and a pink  honeysuckle. A lot is still going on in the garden.…

Daniel Greene – My Good Bunch Farm At Last

  • Post published:09/14/2019
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Good Bunch Farm didn't grow overnight. Like many new students entering the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Daniel Greene did not know what he really wanted to do. This was a new environment, filled with new people, new freedoms, and new ideas. He did know he was concerned about climate change and other environmental issues. Academics and learning were important but he was eager to get to work, get his hands dirty. But his ultimate goal was not clear. As…

Autumnal Flowers Provide Bloom Through October

  • Post published:09/07/2019
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Tomorrow it will be September. How did autumn creep up on us? There are only 22 days before we celebrate the autumnal Equinox on September 23. The real question is have we selected flowers that will bloom through the fall? As I look around my garden I see a number of plants that have just begun to bloom. My ever larger clump of pale pink Japanese anemones, Anemone vitifolia ‘Robustissima’ has just begun to bloom. I love the…