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Returning Gardener Zoom Meeting

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
6:00 pm7:00 pm

All return gardeners at the Living Earth Community Garden are required to attend this Zoom meeting prior to the 2024 growing season. The meeting will go over important updates and get feedback about some important issues. If gardeners are not able to attend, please reach out to Mal Muphy and she will send you a link of the recording.

Living Earth Garden Opening, Clean Up and Potluck

All are welcome to help get the Community Garden ready for the 2024 Season! We will lay down pathways, clean the barn and tools, and prepare partner plots. We will have a potluck around lunch, so please bring a dish a pass. You don't have to be a gardener to come enjoy some sunshine, fresh air, (some) work, and community! This event will happen rain or shine so please dress for the weather.

If you registered and were informed that you received a garden plot at the Living Earth Community Garden, welcome! All new gardeners must attend a new gardener orientation to learn the basics and rules of gardening at the Living Earth Garden and select your garden plot. Please register for one of the three available dates. If you cannot attend any of these three dates, please get in touch with the Garden Manager, Mal Murphy, to schedule a meeting with her. Welcome! We are excited to grow with you.

NOTE: These new gardener orientations are ONLY for registered people who have been informed by LEC staff that a plot is available and confirmed for them.

New Community Gardener Orientation

If you are new to the Living Earth Community Garden, registered for a garden plot, and have received confirmation that we have a plot available for you, welcome! We are excited to grow with you this season. All new gardeners must attend a New Gardener Orientation to help you learn the basics of gardening at the Living Earth Garden and select your garden plot. You can choose to attend one of the three orientations offered. Please RSVP for the date that works for you. If you are unable to attend any of them. please get in touch with Garden Manager Mal Murphy to schedule an independent time to meet and select your plot.

NOTE: New Gardener Orientations are ONLY for those who have registered for a garden plot and have been contacted by LEC staff to confirm that a plot is available. If you are unsure if you are confirmed for the 2024 Season, please reach out directly.

If you registered and were informed that you received a garden plot at the Living Earth Community Garden, welcome! All new gardeners must attend a new gardener orientation to learn the basics and rules of gardening at the Living Earth Garden and select your garden plot. Please register for one of the three available dates. If you are unable to attend any of these three dates, please contact the Garden Manager, Mal Murphy, to schedule a meeting with her. Welcome! We are excited to grow with you.

NOTE: these new gardener orientations are ONLY for registered people informed by LEC staff that a plot is available and confirmed for them.


LEC News and Updates


Living Earth Center is honored and grateful for Consolidated Communications Community Foundation's support of our Community Food Connection Program.

Their $2,500 grant will support LEC's  Community Food Connection Program (CFC). Through the CFC LEC directly connects people to the land and to healthy, organic produce.  We are able to confront the issues of food insecurity and sovereignty in our community collaboratively through a multi-faceted approach. 

Living Earth Center has published its Annual Report for the 2023 - 2024 fiscal year.

Look out your window.  How does your yard fit into the natural world?  Margaret Renkl’s yard in Tennessee seems to fit well, and in her book, The Comfort of Crows, she expresses her joy in nurturing and experiencing it.

In Crows, Renkl, who is a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times, chronicles a year, week by week, of observing and reflecting on the natural world, mostly in regard to her yard.  As in her NYT columns, Renkl writes about flora, fauna, politics, and culture. However, Crows is more personal...