Bahai of North County visits Alta Vista Gardens March 27

Farmer Jones welcomed Bahai of North County on a sunny Saturday morning for an orientation and service tour around the gardens. Three families with gloves and buckets cleared wild mustard from the Jungle Trail and weeds from around the lower pond. Who knew weeding could be so much fun? We pulled up about 4 wheelbarrow loads of weeds and added them to the debris pile in the Children's Garden. Thank you for visiting and working too! Please come back soon!


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Sunrise Incredible Edibles Garden takes shape

March 24 marked the installation of our Agricultural Garden located below the Sunrise Discovery Pavilion within the Alta Vista Children's Garden.

First to Bryan - We really really really appreciate your support in making the CG Ag Garden take shape! Using the tractor to move those scoops of dirt and mulch makes the whole job so much easier! Your expertise is making this garden happen!

Next to Ed F. and Don N. - The beds are great! We appreciate you picking up the materials, building the beds and bringing them to the Garden.

And to our workers for installation: On March 24, our hard workers were Bryan, Carol Jefferies with her children Levi, Phineas and Oona; Gail Stram; Vincente; and Farmer Jones. We worked for more than 3 hours moving beds into the sunrise pattern according to the plan, leveling the beds, cutting and fitting hardware cloth (gopher-stoppers), shovelin' and rakin' that dirt around, spreading mulch, and building the half circle strawberry bed using leftover blocks and capstones from Discovery Pavilion materials as well as native rock.

The Sunrise Incredible Edibles Garden is one more special feature to add to our Alta Vista Children's Garden plan. Children and families will be able to see "What grows well here in Vista" and learn about nutrition from the garden. This garden was funded by a grant from the San Diego Farm Bureau which will also provide fencing.

At the Kids in the Garden class on March 13, our kids planted their seeds for beans, corn, radishes, broccoli, squash and lettuce. We will plant these starts into our new garden beds at the April 10 class starting at 9:00 a.m. Y'all come!

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Keep on Building...

Photos by Ivy Bodin and Nancy Jones

Board member Bryan Morse moving sculpture

Tony Imatto's sculpture 'Broken Link was installed in the Garden

The new Children's Garden shed has been installed and grading is underway on the A.D.A compliant paths.

Looking down into the Children's Garden

Raised Planters for the 'What we Grow in Vista' vegetable garden awaiting installation

Sub Contractor drilling holes for new light standards

New irrigation main being extended into Children's Garden. New irrigation Valves are installed as well. next to come...plants!

Bryan and Todd pose in front of the new porta potti

AVG Families in the Garden Composting Class to be at Vista Library April 18

After a meeting with Vista Library's new Branch Manager Wynne Weiss, Alta Vista Gardens will be offering a community contact program at the Vista Library.

On April 18 from 2 to 3 pm at the Community Room, Farmer Jones will share a free Families in the Garden: Composting class. She will teach what compost is, why we should be composting and what the ingredients are for compost. Each family will take home a bottled compost (bring at least one 2-liter soda bottle - more if you have them). Information sheets about compost containers will be shared.

Families will receive flyers encouraging them to join in the AVG Earth Day Festival 2010 on April 24 and the monthly Kids in the Garden Class.

Lia Strell's 'A Creative Bloom' joins our Garden

This Monday Lia Strell's sculpture called 'A Creative Bloom' was installed in the Upper Jungle Garden at Alta Vista Gardens. Here are some photos taken by Board Director Ivy Bodin. More work needs to be done to finalize its position

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Invitation to a Garden Event

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For more information, Read our previous Blog about this about this program