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Sorry for the late notice, but my garden hours from 2-3pm today are cancelled, I have a meeting to attend. Sorry for any inconveniences!

Kristen

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Hello all,

We, at Sustainable Carolina, are doing a series of events this semester, called CHAT: No Impact, as an extension of the themes of sustainability in this year's First Year Reading Experience book, No Impact Man.

The final installation of this series will be on April 18th at 7pm, in the Green Quad Learning Center, as one of the festivities for USC's Earth Week. We invite you to join us in the showing of the film Urban Roots, followed by a thoughtful discussion. We feel that the themes of this film relate to your groups' interests and want to share it with you all. Please fell free to pass this email along to your colleagues and anyone else that may be interested in coming. [...]

Hey guys! Unfortunately I have to cancel my garden hour today from 3-4pm, as I'm under the weather. Sorry! See you back next week for my final garden hour of the semester!

:D Christy

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Matt,

Please take me off this email list - I will no longer have this email.

Please use cs_wofford@hotmail.com

From: * GQGARDEN -- Green Quad Community Garden [mailto:GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Kip
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:48 PM
To: GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU
Subject: onions take two

Hey folks,
My Monday gardening time got rained out. I'm going to try again this Friday with planting out our onion starts. There are scattered showers predicted so we'll tentatively be out there about 10:30 if it's not pouring. We'll also be weeding and mulching among the raspberries, getting the bed ready for its spring explosion of growth. All bets are off this year about those March and April killing frosts. I suspect we won't be getting them, according to how mild this winter has been, but I'm shy to commit to it being early spring. Last time I fell for that I lost all my tomato plants to frost in April. Hope you'll join us on Friday. -Matt [...]

Hey all-

Glad to see that y'all have had a productive spring and are moving on into the summer so strongly. We are a little behind here at The President's House vegetable garden, but are about to be going strong. We have prepped our garden and will lay it out this week. We will be changing the garden from the traditional row and furrow type garden, to a simple geometric parterre in the Italian style. We have rooted upright rosemary over the winter for the clipped hedge and will be laying out our vegetable garden rooms. This is a new type of gardening for me and I look forward to taking on the challenge of making a new type garden that is still just as productive as our old one and looks really neat and more refined. [...]

Hey all,
We have harvested lots of lettuce to make way for the summer garden. Come help yourself to a head or some loose leaf lettuce in the Green Quad Learning Center refrigerator. Here's some updates on what's planted in the summer garden so far: We have bush beans in the second row from the sidewalk. These are real providers, producing extra long beans all summer long. The next row from the sidewalk is now partially planted in sweet peppers. The rest of the peppers needed for the row are in flats in the greenhouse. I'll get them down to the garden on Friday, unless anyone wants to get them planted before then. If so, respond to this email and I'll meet you to get them from the greenhouse for you. In the last row from the sidewalk we have the first of our tomatoes and basil planted. We'll need to work on trellising for the tomatoes. I hope to start that this Friday as well. Come out and pick strawberries! They're coming on strong. You might also want to bring a knife in case some artichokes are ready. We harvested the first of them today. Wait until the buds [...]

An interesting event if you have time this coming Friday.

The Department of Geography colloquium series
is pleased to welcome
Dr Amy Trauger
Department of Geography, University of Georgia
Geographies of Food Sovereignty
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Please join us!

Friday, March 23, 3.30 pm

Callcott 201

Pre-colloquium snacks at 3.15

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Jack,
If you don't find your glove around the garden somewhere, check the bucket of garden gloves in the tool shed. Someone may have picked it up and tucked it in there. Thanks for the weeding help! -Matt

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:33:40 -0400
From: jack.gerstner@GMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: {SpamScore: ssss} more onions, compost turning, spinach planting
To: GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU

Hello all, I lost a gray knit glove at the community garden monday, let me know if anyone finds it, thanks! Did some weeding.

I am having the same non-luck with spinach in my home garden, planted some in flats and two weeks later, some in the ground, *maybe two sprouts so far. [...]

Hello all, I lost a gray knit glove at the community garden monday, let me
know if anyone finds it, thanks! Did some weeding.

I am having the same non-luck with spinach in my home garden, planted some
in flats and two weeks later, some in the ground, *maybe two sprouts so far.

thanks.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Matthew Kip
wrote:

> Hey folks,
> Late notice I know, but I hope you'll join me tomorrow (Monday) morning
> from 9-11am to plant another small flat of onions, turn a couple compost
> piles and hopefully plant more spinach. Mysteriously we've been having
> mediocre seed germination this spring. Some spinach came up from our last
> sewing, but not nearly enough. We'll try again. I'll see you there. -Matt
>
> for more information about our Community Garden please visit: Our Website
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Hey all!

In the spirit of Spring cleaning, Experiential Learning Team is running a drive to gather materials for the Creative Design Workshop with Kirkland Smith!

Here is a list of materials that can be donated. This is not a exclusive list. If you find any other paraphernalia the students can use, bring it on down!

Suggested Assemblage items:

Anything small and plastic!!
Bottle caps- plastic, metal
Small toys- fast food, army men, animals, etc.
Buttons
Disposable pens, markers
Office supplies
Costume jewelry
Plastic utensils, straws
Make-up containers (lipstick tubes, mascara wands, etc.)
Mardi Gras beads, coins
Dice
Cell phones
Remote controller
Sunglasses, 3-D glasses
Hair clips, combs

There is a box with a lovely pink label "Creative Design Workshop, Donation Box" out in the left corridor outside of the kitchen. The drive will be open until Friday 3/23. [...]

Good morning garden lovers,

Experiential Learning Team is putting together a service opportunity for a group of girls in Zeta Tau Alpha. Is anyone available this Friday, 3/16, afternoon for a group to volunteer in the community garden? This Friday would be ideal for them as their coordinator would be able to attend but if not, next week would work too!

Thank you,
Becca Marasco

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Hey folks,
Late notice I know, but I hope you'll join me tomorrow (Monday) morning from 9-11am to plant another small flat of onions, turn a couple compost piles and hopefully plant more spinach. Mysteriously we've been having mediocre seed germination this spring. Some spinach came up from our last sewing, but not nearly enough. We'll try again. I'll see you there. -Matt

-- Green Quad Community Garden Listserv --

Please use this list to update members about Garden Related Activities, specifically: garden work done outside of regular group work times, Columbia area growers events and information, local permaculture events etc....

For More info about the Garden or to see a list of Current Garden Times please visit: http://www.cas.sc.edu/greenquad/garden [...]

Hey folks,
My Monday gardening time got rained out. I'm going to try again this Friday with planting out our onion starts. There are scattered showers predicted so we'll tentatively be out there about 10:30 if it's not pouring. We'll also be weeding and mulching among the raspberries, getting the bed ready for its spring explosion of growth. All bets are off this year about those March and April killing frosts. I suspect we won't be getting them, according to how mild this winter has been, but I'm shy to commit to it being early spring. Last time I fell for that I lost all my tomato plants to frost in April. Hope you'll join us on Friday. -Matt [...]

Hey everyone,
If we don't get rained out, I hope you'll join me tomorrow from 9-11 am at the garden. We'll be planting some onion starts, flipping the compost pile in our cedar bins, and maybe delicately weeding among the cabbage seedlings. I'll bring my friend's Irish storm kettle again, to fix up some quick cups of herbal tea, blended with alfalfa greens from the bioswale in front of the learning center. See you out there if it's not soggy! -Matt

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Hey Sheila,
Yeah we're spreading compost on top of our previous garden beds, which we're first loosening up with spades or pick axes. You might remember how hard-packed the existing clay subsoil is. We're getting somewhere with softening it through organic matter and earthworm activity. When we started the garden a shovel bounced off the surface of the ground. It was like concrete. Now we can sink in the depth of the shovel where we've been growing and adding compost all these years. Glad your tomatoes are working out. Homegrown are the best. Strawberry seeds....I haven't started them intentionally but they've come up readily in compost, so maybe they're easy. Take care, and keep in touch! -Matt [...]

caylee, looks there is an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of matthew's
first email, so you can unsubscribe yourself.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, LEVY, CAYLEE wrote:

> I'm unable to be in this club anymore can someone take me out of the
> emails? Thanks
>
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> *From:* * GQGARDEN -- Green Quad Community Garden [
> GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU] on behalf of sheila goldsmith [
> sheilagoldsmith@GMAIL.COM]
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:39 PM
> *To:* GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: spinach, carrots
>
> Hi Matt. So you put a layer of compost on top of the dirt and then plant
> the seeds in that? I'm trying tomato seeds inside for the first time, and
> they appear to be getting their 2nd set of leaves even though I have those
> energy efficient windows that are supposed to block the sun. Someone gave
> me strawberry seeds (!), know what I do with those?
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Matthew Kip > > wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>> Come join me Monday from 9 to 11 am to plant some spinach, weed among
>> [...]

Hey Matt,
We are hoping to join you! Just an FYI that grad students and full time staff have a meeting at ten. Hope to see you in the morning.

Carter Cox
Sustainable Carolina
University of South Carolina
Coxcc2@mailbox.sc.edu
Caracartercox@gmail.com

On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:57 AM, "Matthew Kip" > wrote:

Hey everyone,
Come join me Monday from 9 to 11 am to plant some spinach, weed among young cabbage seedlings, prepare a bed for carrots, and plant those as well. We finally have enough compost available to build good deep raised beds like the garden had several years ago. It gives crops like carrots lots of space to form deep tap roots, the part we eat obviously. If the weather's good I'll bring my friend's Irish tea kettle, a simple old rocket stove design that heats water as quickly as a microwave, and we can have warm herbal tea as we work. See you there! -Matt [...]

I'm unable to be in this club anymore can someone take me out of the emails? Thanks

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From: * GQGARDEN -- Green Quad Community Garden [GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU] on behalf of sheila goldsmith [sheilagoldsmith@GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:39 PM
To: GQGARDEN@LISTSERV.SC.EDU
Subject: Re: spinach, carrots

Hi Matt. So you put a layer of compost on top of the dirt and then plant the seeds in that? I'm trying tomato seeds inside for the first time, and they appear to be getting their 2nd set of leaves even though I have those energy efficient windows that are supposed to block the sun. Someone gave me strawberry seeds (!), know what I do with those? [...]

Hi Matt. So you put a layer of compost on top of the dirt and then plant
the seeds in that? I'm trying tomato seeds inside for the first time, and
they appear to be getting their 2nd set of leaves even though I have those
energy efficient windows that are supposed to block the sun. Someone gave
me strawberry seeds (!), know what I do with those?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Matthew Kip
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> Come join me Monday from 9 to 11 am to plant some spinach, weed among
> young cabbage seedlings, prepare a bed for carrots, and plant those as
> well. We finally have enough compost available to build good deep raised
> beds like the garden had several years ago. It gives crops like carrots
> lots of space to form deep tap roots, the part we eat obviously. If the
> weather's good I'll bring my friend's Irish tea kettle, a simple old rocket
> stove design that heats water as quickly as a microwave, and we can have
> warm herbal tea as we work. See you there! -Matt
>
> for more information about [...]

Hey everyone,
Come join me Monday from 9 to 11 am to plant some spinach, weed among young cabbage seedlings, prepare a bed for carrots, and plant those as well. We finally have enough compost available to build good deep raised beds like the garden had several years ago. It gives crops like carrots lots of space to form deep tap roots, the part we eat obviously. If the weather's good I'll bring my friend's Irish tea kettle, a simple old rocket stove design that heats water as quickly as a microwave, and we can have warm herbal tea as we work. See you there! -Matt [...]