We invite you to stop by and tour our raised bio-intensive garden beds. Vegetables are just now being planted, and community volunteers are sharing their time for this exciting endeavor. One month from now you'll see the results of all the prep work! Interested in joining our Garden Co-Op? Please contact Greenshire and we'll show you how to get your hands in the earth!
Gardening for KIDS (and their parents)
Date: TBA
Learn how to grow a really great garden. What plants grow best together? How is a garden prepared before planting? Why do we fluff up the soil? How can plants breathe, drink and grow strong? What vegetables did the Indians grow? How and why did they grow them together? Have you ever grown cotton? It's easy and fun! Mark Fischer: Bio-Intensive practitioner since 1997.
FREE for parents who attended the adult bio-intensive workshop.
New parents: $20.
Organic Gardening for Children
A New Creation in Progress!
Greenshire is looking for parents and children who would like to become part of their Organic Garden Co-Op. In addition to the existing gardens, Greenshire would like to create 'kids only' vegetable and butterfly gardens. Come put your hands into the earth: dig, plant, and harvest! Enjoy the beauty of the earth, and take home organic vegetables as well. If you are interested in being part of this new creation, please contact Greenshire. Donation.
The Singing Garden
As spring preparations are underway at Greenshire’s Bio-Intensive garden, the gathered women began with tunes and chants – and thus, Greenshire’s vegetable garden was blessed with a new name. Garden preparations included weeding and adding to the compost bin, planting cold-weather seeds, and double-digging to loosen the soil. The peas are up, the lettuce seedlings are beginning to show, and excitement is high. Another component to Bio-Intensive gardening is that of companion planting and controlling the usual garden pests with plants that will repel them. Many herbs do this fantastic job, and they will be planted in strategic locations. We are grateful to this fantastic team of women!!! If you’d like to join this wonderful community of garden-lovers, please let us know. Gardening is healing, it is grounding, and most of all, it is connecting in community with wonderful people.
No GMO’s for Greenshire!
One of the most meaningful ways you can connect to Greenshire Arts Consortium is by enjoying the presence of their beautiful gardens, all created by their community with generous donations of time and love. Being immersed in the journey of a garden, with earth preparation, planting, caring and harvesting, gives its stewards more than you can imagine – pleasure, satisfaction, peace, healing and the wonder of the miracle of creation.
Unfortunately, driven by the desire to grow larger crops on less land, large corporations have taken this miracle of creation and severely altered its inherent design, resulting in Genetically Modified Organisms, GMO’s. Using GMO’s has become common practice in agriculture today, and is found readily in corn, sugar beets, soybeans, and some fruits and vegetables, all of these creations finding their way into our food chain.
So what’s the harm? The genetic replacement strands come from other plants and species of life, as well as bacterium. This is done to produce a desired strain within the plant such as resistance to certain insects, funguses, and a larger yield on less land. However, scientists are now discovering that these genetic alterations are finding their way into the human genetic strands which may result in a permanent change in our DNA and also cause new human diseases. Unfortunately our country’s agencies that are entrusted in overseeing the safety of our foods are basically turning their backs on this situation. (Do not confuse this process with the age old process of hybridizing plants which is a totally natural process.)
Fortunately, it is also being discovered that by using open-pollinated (no GMO) seeds, and also through Bio-Intensive and Bio-Dynamic growing methods, the results can produce a healthy and much higher yield than ever, while growing healthy food for both animal and human consumption.
At Greenshire, this concern is the driving force behind their organically-grown gardens. No chemical agents are used, and only open pollinated seeds are planted. These vibrant ‘old-fashioned’ seeds will produce for the future, unlike GMO seeds which are for the most part, sterile. When you visit the Greenshire campus you will find beautifully landscaped and planted gardens, pleasing your senses and enticing your thumbs to turn green. The most notable is the Peace Garden that is designed as a spiral leading into a sacred circle with a nine foot sandstone monolith peace pole at its center. To the other side of the campus is the Bio-Intensive vegetable, herb and eatable ornamentals garden. With the beds outlined in gray Belgian block and red gravel, and a black wrought iron arbor at its entrance, this garden won first prize from Buck’s Beautiful. Based upon scientific and metaphysical thinking as described by Rudolf Steiner, a 19th century philosopher, there are Bio-Dynamic components that Greenshire is beginning to develop, as well.
A sneak preview of the gardens can be found at http://www.greenshirearts.org/gardens/the-greenshire-gardens.php. Greenshire also invites you to visit their gardens in person and immerse yourself in their on-going creations which are always open to the public. Even more, to enter into a conscious presence with the gardens, you are welcome to volunteer and become involved in their organized program of planting, maintaining and tending the gardens as a team, learning and working together.
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