Last Saturday, our Edible Landscapes of Yamhill group met to discuss tending our 28 garden boxes this year! It was fun to see each other and meet the newest volunteers at Mac Market - I brought my own mug for a cuppa, and got a Mexican Mocha. Edible landscaping volunteers Last year, our group officially 'adopted' the 8 block stretch of Alpine Avenue, and this year we've received a grant to expand the garden box project to several other areas. The board members scheduled the quarterly clean up for after our meeting, and the city of McMinnville provides kits (vests, rubber gloves, grippers, signs and garbage bags) which make it easy for groups to tend the roadsides! Clean up crew It felt so rewarding to gather those bags of litter along Alpine - and what a great reminder to attend to the areas near and around our garden boxes! This is the second year I'll be tending the Tea Garden which I dearly love! It is ironic that the picnic tables (one nea...