Harvest Fair
This is the second year I've tended the Tea Garden bed, as part of our Edible Landscapes of Yamhill along project on Alpine Avenue. I love my garden box, with its well established perennials, which need little care beyond the watering. The lemon verbena came through winter, and i planted a few tended plants in spring. Tea Garden in June Last year, our group officially 'adopted' the 8 block stretch of Alpine Avenue, for periodic trash clean up. The city of McMinnville provides kits (vests, rubber gloves, grippers, signs and garbage bags) which make it easy for groups to tend the roadsides! I joined the cleanup last spring, and again this week, just before our Harvest Fair - Matthew and I gathered 2 1/2 bags of trash along the 6 block area! You can read about last year's harvest fair here . Nadya and Matthew For the Harvest exchange, Members brought produce from their own gardens and boxes, gathered produce from local farmers at the end of the market, ...