One of the New Eden gardeners introduced us to this cool website. On growveg.com you can plan your garden, get reminders of when to plants your different veggies, good gardening tips and more. Click here to get more info.
Online Garden Planning Tool

Green Artists League at work on New Eden’s Sustainable Future Mural

by Garden GAL

The Green Artists League (GAL)  have embedded “articulturists” in the New Eden Community Gardens dedicated to offering
GAL intern Cathy Stevens painting on the New Eden Collaborative Mural at First Parish Chuch
challenge, support and reinforcement of the creative process of  members of the New Eden Collaborative. In the summer of 2008, GAL began working on a [...]

July 27th, 2009 | Category: Announcements, Eco and Community art | Leave a comment

To Till or not to Till

by Garden GAL

The beauty of working together in a large community garden is that we come to the garden with  a wide range of experience and knowledge. We also come with different positions on our approaches to gardening. All though all the New Eden Gardens follow the garden’s organic gardening guidelines as part of their New Eden [...]

July 27th, 2009 | Category: Community Forum | One comment

2 Excellent Arugula Salad Recipes

by Garden GAL

Gillian Swart, New Eden gardener and uber scribe sent me several of her favorite recipes from her sister Sarah:
Two salad recipes using arugula (although for the one with fennel, I’ve used Boston lettuce with excellent results). From my sister Sarah …
I (Sarah) “invented” the one w/the arugula and bean sprouts…also the salad, since I had [...]

July 26th, 2009 | Category: Recipes | Leave a comment

Tasty Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

by Garden GAL

Here is a great family pickle recipe from one of my all time favorite First Parish deacons and master bean supper lady. Jean Garnett:

BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES
1 gallon cucumbers cut paper thin
8 medium onions, cut paper thin
2 green peppers, cut paper thin
1/2 cup Kosher (canning) salt
10 pound bag of ice or the equivalent of ice from [...]

July 26th, 2009 | Category: Recipes | One comment

Garden Diary: One Rainy Night

by Garden GAL

Veggie seed share with seeds donated by Corliss Brothers Nursery in Ipswich.
Welcome to our first installment of the NEW EDEN DIARY. Our premier entry is by J. F. Nocera.
They tell me it was a Friday night in mid-March.  I have no idea if that is true or not, so I’ll just have to take their [...]

July 25th, 2009 | Category: Garden Diary | Leave a comment

Garden Diary: Who’s Keepin’ Who?

by Garden GAL

Our second installment of the NEW EDEN DIARY. This entry is by Sandy Comeau
The offending gray "light house" bird house with FPC birdhouse with golden rooster in the foreground
Don’t get me wrong.  I really do love nature and that is exactly why I became involved in this organic gardening venture to begin with.  But, [...]

July 25th, 2009 | Category: Garden Diary | Leave a comment

New Eden Food Preservation Classes 7/29-October 10/7

by Garden GAL

Wondering what to do with all those great fruit and veggies from your garden, farmers’ market or CSA?  How about preserving those fleeting moments of Summer Sunshine through home food preservation?

New Eden Collaborative of First Parish Church is pleased to announce their first sustainable cooking series.  The series feature demonstrations on most forms of traditional [...]

July 16th, 2009 | Category: Hey, you missed it! | One comment

Good bugs, Bad Bugs?

by Garden GAL

Here are several bugs that I have found in my garden.  Who are they and what do they like to eat?  That first bug is such a lovely shade of green I don’t know if it is the spiky reindeer antlers  on the golden one but I found it menacing. In fact when I [...]

July 13th, 2009 | Category: Garden Diary | One comment

New Eden Pest and Pestilence Control

by Garden GAL

I squished some stunningly beautiful, yet voracious, cabbage caterpillars today.  Nothing brings out the homicidal tendencies of a normally mild mannered gardener than seeing one of your beloved crops under siege.  Now that potato beetles, grubs, and cut worms are laying waste to some veggies,  gardeners have been asking me what they can [...]

July 10th, 2009 | Category: Garden Tips, Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs | One comment

Get Ready for the New Eden Collaborative Harvest Fair September 27

by Garden GAL

Nurture your prize heirloom tomato, groom your most handsome rooster and start pickling your  best baby squash in preparation for New Eden Collaborative’s 2nd Annual Harvest Fair on Sunday September 27.  In the tradition of county agricultural fairs, we will be celebrating the bounty of the harvest with music,   food, children’s games,  and lot’s [...]

July 10th, 2009 | Category: Hey, you missed it! | Leave a comment