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WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW

Can you Feel the Buzz?

Wells Park/Sawmill Action Buzz Garden

Plots are currently available for the 2011 growing season and many opportunities exist to help out with this wonderful program – from financial support to event organizing and community work days. It’s a great way to expand your community ties and tangibly impact the quality of life in Albuquerque. Please join us for sun, fun and fresh food!

The Action Buzz Garden is a community garden space located at 1255 8th Street NW (about three blocks north of Mountain on 8th Street NW). Situated on a formerly vacant lot in the Wells Park neighborhood, the program provides 8’X4’ plots to individuals and households for a modest $25 annual fee. A community development program of Harwood, the gardens seek not only to mitigate the negative elements of a vacant lot, but to transform it into a positive social space for the benefit of the local community.

If you are interested in growing food or otherwise helping out at the Action Buzz Garden, please contact Wade Patterson at 242-6367 ext. 119 or wade@harwoodartcenter.orglots are currently available for the 2010 growing season and many opportunities exist to help out with tis wonderful program – from financial support to event organizing and community work days. It’s a great way to expand your community ties and tangibly impact the quality of life in Albuquerque. Please join us for sun, fun and fresh food!

If you are interested in growing food or otherwise helping out at the Action Buzz Garden, please contact Wade Patterson at 242-6367 ext. 119 or wade@harwoodartcenter.org

Garden Workshops

Grow, eat, stay healthy!
Urban Growers Workshop Series

This year, we will again be teaming up with our wonderful partners at GardenersGuild and Rio Grande Community Farm to offer a series of practical garden workshops. Topics address issues at the appropriate time of year so you can apply your newfound knowledge right away.

Admission is FREE to kids and members of Rio Grande Community Farm, Gardener’s Guild or Harwood Art Center. Suggested donation is $5

March 26th

“Seed Starts, Transplanting, and Direct Seeding” @ Rio Grande Community Farm
Bring a lawn chair!
10 am - Noon
Download the flyer

April 9th

“Permaculture: what goes around, comes around” @ Rio Grande Community Farm.

June 4th

“Beekeeping: what, why and how” @ Action Buzz Neighborhood Garden (1255 8th Street NW, at the intersection of 8th and Summer Ave.)

Schedule (dates and locations may be subject to change, so please consult our website closer to the event)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Check out our two short videos showing how the garden was built and how the Wells Park Community Center kids participating in or After School Art Program built and installed worm bins on site.

"Featured Community Garden: Action Buzz Neighborhood Garden," an interview with Wade Patterson, Director of Arts and Community Development at The Harwood, written by KT LaBadie (read the interview)