McCall Community Garden

in 2009, SOLV’s Food & Garden Group started a community garden on 1/3 acre of private land owned by Don & Connie McClaran which sits behind City Market (411 S. 3rd/Hwy 55).  Anyone who wants to join this effort can use reply box below or email to: sustainable.outlook@gmail.com.  We are eager to tap fresh enthusiasm and more volunteers for the garden so we can consider pursuing grant financing, non-profit status and other planning in order to achieve goals such as decent fencing, irrigation, raised beds and maybe someday a greenhouse.

Informal meetings and work parties for the garden are held Wednesday evenings throughout the summer, at the McCall Community Garden behind City Market on Hwy 55 (south end of McCall), 5-7pm.  As the season demands, bring tools for planting, weeding and harvesting.

Gallery photos of the garden in progress can be viewed HERE.

Proposed garden design by Jennifer Church for 2010 and beyond can be viewed and commented on HERE.

GARDEN UPDATE 8/2/10 – Now with 400 linear feet of raised bed and an automatic drip irrigation, the garden is off and running at ever greater impressiveness (as are the weeds).  We are already harvesting lettuce, kale, radishes and peas.  The potatoes and carrots are coming along nicely too. Regular garden meetings and work parties every Wednesday 5-7pm throughout the summer at the garden.  Come enjoy the work and the harvest.

GARDEN UPDATE 5/15/10 – Nails were pulled from reclaimed redwood 2×6 decking.  Four 20′x3′ raised beds were assembled with materials ready for about 12 more.  Some of the beds were lined at the bottom with about 10 layers of recycled newspaper, in the hopes that the remaining grass roots will be smothered.

GARDEN UPDATE 3/24/10 – We are meeting every 2-3 weeks in early spring to coordinate plans for a successful garden again this year.  If you wish to get involved in a big or small way, please comment below or email to sustainable.outlook@gmail.com. Donnelly is now starting a community garden.  For more on their efforts and progress, click HERE.

GARDEN UPDATE 10/1/09 – Our first really hard frost.  Some yards might have experienced 19 degrees.

GARDEN UPDATE 9/28/09 – About half our potatoes were harvested to donate to the food bank – beautiful reds & russets.  What a wonderful treat to find hidden beneath our soil.

GARDEN UPDATE 8/21/09 – Donation today to the food bank in New Meadows (United Methodist Church). Thanks to Susan Bond for doing the delivery.

GARDEN UPDATE 8/19/09 – Today, we proudly picked some of our produce and donated extra harvest to the Heartland Food Bank: red kale, collard greens, bok choi, beets, lettuce, peas

GARDEN UPDATE 6/13/09 – Potatoes were planted this morning in the 4 remaining open rows: New Red potatoes (thanks to City Market) and some russets. We also planted some herb and veggie starts that were generously donated by Jenn Swenson, of Webster Ranch Natural Farms in Horseshoe Bend.  The chard and Austrian winter pea cover crop are up.  Thanks for all the rain Saturday night, since we do not yet have irrigation in place.

GARDEN UPDATE 6/8/09 – We were not able to get good pictures, darn it, but it was an especially beautiful evening at the Community Garden.  We planted peas, lettuce, collards, beets, carrots, Italian parsley, cilantro, chard, zucchini and maybe some other food crops.  We still hope to plant potatoes if we can find some good seed potatoes.  With luck, we will get some rain soon, since we have not watered the newly-planted seeds.

GARDEN UPDATE: 6/1/09 – We planted the green manure plowdown crop of Austrian Winter Peas, using two push type planting units, seeding about 3/4 of the field in a little more than an hour.  We also removed some large rocks and trash from the field. With luck, we will have rain soon for the peas. With quick work and good hands we will have an irrigation system very soon too.  About 1/4 if the plowed field remains for planting annual food crops this season, which needs to be done soon. See below for Planting Committee members.  Those interested in design & layout general  aspects of this project should contact Jennifer Church or other Planting Committee members (see below).  There will be a fencing party soon – another chance for many hands to make light work.  Stay tuned for date & time.  For progress photos of the garden, see the GARDEN GALLERY.

For preliminary garden design proposals provided by Jennifer Church, CLICK HERE.

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