{"id":42711,"date":"2023-03-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=42711"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:00:00","slug":"community-garden-taking-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/03\/02\/community-garden-taking-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"Community garden taking reservations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>From Staff Reports<\/b><\/div>\n<p>STERLING \u2014 In Spring 2022, members of Hope Chapel, 35 Chocksett Road, started digging and preparing a community garden. Half of the free garden plots were reserved by people in the community. The other half was planted with seeds donated by church members and DiMeco\u2019s, with more than 670 pounds of food grown donated to local charities, including WHEAT Community Connections in Clinton. The church is taking reservations for the 2023 growing season, with 4-by-10-foot plots ready, for free.<\/p>\n<p>You are responsible for planting, weeding and harvesting your own plot, with the request that no one plants anything that will spread into someone else\u2019s garden plot and that you do not tend to the plot on Sunday mornings, when church is being held; otherwise, you are welcome to come anytime during daylight hours.<\/p>\n<p>People need to register at https:\/\/hopechapelsterling. org\/ garden.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Chapel is handing out free seeds around the towns, including Emma\u2019s Cafe in Sterling and Thirsty Lab in Princeton. Seed packets consist of parsnips, marigolds, and pac choy (also known as bok choy). There are a few packets with other seeds. These are seeds that have been saved by members of Hope Chapel. Each packet will have information to reserve a garden plot as well.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be free gardening classes, teaching when and how to plant seeds, companion planting and eventually harvesting. More classes will be offered as interest in the community grows.<\/p>\n<p>The first class is Saturday, March 18, at 9 a.m. at Hope Chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STERLING \u2014 In Spring 2022, members of Hope Chapel, 35 Chocksett Road, started digging and preparing a community garden. Half of the free garden plots were reserved by people in the community. The other half was planted with seeds donated by church members and DiMeco\u2019s, with more than 670 pounds of food grown donated to local charities, including WHEAT Community Connections in Clinton. The church is taking reservations for the 2023 growing season, with 4-by-10-foot plots ready, for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}