Fall is here and the gardens are starting to noticably change; many birds are migrating, the leaves are showing their brilliant fall colors, and the air is cool and moist – especially in the mornings. So, now is a good time come out to help us with some of our fall projects or just to plan a relaxing walk through the gardens, bring a friend, take advantage of and discover the many sights and smells of nature.
UPCOMING GARDEN EVENTS
If you are looking for a fun chance to learn about native plants and sustainability, you can get involved by volunteering in our volunteer gardens. Our next scheduled community workday is Saturday, October 17th (Note: Our Workday always happens on the 3rd Saturday of every month). We will also be having smaller special medicinal garden work days every Tuesday morning (8:30am until 11:30am) this month. These special workdays are intended to help get the medicinal garden renovation project completed by winter.
We encourage you to sign up at the front desk to become an active garden volunteer (NOTE: That plus attending a workday will earn you a free Marshall Native Gardens cap). See the workday logistics and more details below.
Upcoming Activities Scheduled:
- Saturday, October 17th at 9:30am will be our monthly 3rd Saturday Community Workday and “”garden party“. We will be joined by the Teens of Madison County and Project Challenge. We are clearing the Medicinal garden beds and volunteers will be able to take some of those plants for their gardens. Then, at noon we will have lots of finger foods and refreshments for all our volunteers. We hope you can join our many volunteers for this always fun Saturday event — they are always family friendly too.
- Every Tuesday in October starting at 8:30am we will be having a special workday in the medicinal gardens. We will be renovating that garden over the next couple of months by finishing bed preparations, installing rain barrels, woodchipped trails, a trellis for native medicinal vines, and over 380 native medicinal native plants. See our Blog for renovation plan details.
- On Thursday, October 29th join us for a family and adult education presentation by Tom Tribble – Subject is “Birds We Love”. Tom is always interesting and fun. Hopefully, you can join us for this MNG and Library co-sponsored event. More on this closer to the event…
Thanks for your ongoing interest and support for the native gardens. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at marshall.native.gardens@gmail.com.
Our upcoming garden volunteer events are list below as follows. View the full calendar, below. Note that we include events that are by invite only on this calendar.
