Project Learning Tree is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12.

Web site for Sunshine Supplies www.sunshinesupplies.com

For more information visit the Five Mile Creek District Partnership web page:

www.fivemilecreekgreenwaydistrict.org

Chilton Research and Extension Center Click here for more information.

It’s fitting that the Chilton Research and Extension Center is located in the shadow [...]]]> Come join Cawaco Board Member Jim Pitts at the Chilton County Experiment station August 7, 2010 for the Chilton County Farm, Home and Wildlife Expo.  See the directions and topics listed below.

Chilton Research and Extension Center Click here for more information.

It’s fitting that the Chilton Research and Extension Center is located in the shadow of Clanton’s famous giant peach water tower just off of I-65, because at the CREC, peaches rule. When the center was established in 1944, its mission was to identify superior varieties and develop new management techniques that would help Chilton County’s peach producers maximize their profits. And that’s still its mission today. The CREC does work with other small fruits—most notably kiwifruit—but peaches have priority.

August 7, 2010

Farm, Home and Wildlife Expo

12:00 Noon until 5 pm

Here is just a few of the activities that will be covered.

1. Milk Goat Demonstration – Ralph Hayes – See live milking and taste goat cheese.

2. Dairy Cow Demonstration – Amanda Griffeth – See live milking.

3. Dessert Tasting –Chilton Co. Master Gardeners

4. Alabama’s 10 Worst Invasive Weed Species – Stephen Enloe

5. Old Fashioned Hand water Pump Game & Peach Float – Gay West

6. Food Preservation – Janice Hall

7. Fruit Tasting – Gary Gray

8. Home Lawn Care & Irrigation Techniques – David Han & Rick Helms

9. Demonstration Garden Tour – Chilton Co. Master Gardeners

10. Blackberry Culture & Trellising – Arlie Powell

11. Peach Pruning Techniques – Tom Bentley

12. Fruit Benefits for Healthy Living – Floyd Woods

13. Home Fire Ant Control – Fudd Graham

14. Cage Fish Culture – Claude Reeves

15. Home Blueberry Production Practices – Elina Coneva

16. Meat Goat Production – Robert Spencer

17. Wildlife Control & Capture – Patrick Cook

18. Beef Cut & Cooking Demonstration

19. Blackened Catfish Cooking Demonstration – Greg Whitis

20. Satsuma & Blackberry Production – Jay Spiers

21. Kiwifruit Production – Bill Dozier

22. CREC General Farm Tour

23. Safe Shotgun Practices – Lee Brown

24. Muscadine & Bunch Grape Production – Chip East

25. Rainwater Collection & Irrigation Design – Tony Glover

26. Grafting Techniques – Ken Tilt

Cawaco has been helping this small neighborhood on Village Creek with a garden grant to supply rain barrels to back yard gardens.  The public is welcome to come learn how to put a rain barrel together while helping the community.

Flyer for Rain Barrel [...]]]> Come join us and the Sherman Heights Neighborhood for a rain barrel workshop.

Cawaco has been helping this small neighborhood on Village Creek with a garden grant to supply rain barrels to back yard gardens.  The public is welcome to come learn how to put a rain barrel together while helping the community.

Flyer for Rain Barrel Workshop

Where:

The Lighthouse Church, 20056 Hwy 31 – Thorsby, AL.

Chilton County

When:

WEDNESDAY, August 11, 2010

TIME: 10 AM- 12 PM

PLEASE RSVP SO WE CAN PLAN FOR LUNCH!

Crestwood Community Garden

Summer 2010 Urban Agriculture Project Birmingham Community Garden Mapping Steph Munkachy, intern at Jones Valley Urban Farm Emmie Johnson, intern from Birmingham-Southern College at Cawaco RC&D Council

Jones Valley Urban Farm and Cawaco RC&D Council are currently inventorying all of the community, neighborhood, business, and school gardens in the greater Birmingham area. [...]]]>

Crestwood Community Garden

Summer 2010 Urban Agriculture Project
Birmingham Community Garden Mapping
Steph Munkachy, intern at Jones Valley Urban Farm
Emmie Johnson, intern from Birmingham-Southern College at Cawaco RC&D Council

Jones Valley Urban Farm and Cawaco RC&D Council are currently inventorying all of the community, neighborhood, business, and school gardens in the greater Birmingham area. They will create an interactive map accessible via the internet for the general public to have greater ease of access to garden and food resources.

Steph and Emmie are interviewing folks at each garden to get contact information for the data base – name of garden, address, garden manager, garden history, public or private, and GPS location. Attached you will find an Excel document listing the gardens in the inventory. If you know of any more gardens that you do not see listed, please email any information about them to semunkachy@gmail.com.  This project sponsored by Francesca Gross/Cawaco, Rachel Reinhart/JVUF and Andy Olds/Catalyst.

Community Gardens List in Excel

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