Upcoming Events
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Summer Potluck!
It’s our summer potluck! Come join us and get to know your fellow local food enthusiasts.
Zoom Garden Plot - Season 5
Monday April 22nd - 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Online Zoom gathering
Gardeners of all levels are welcome to join us for the 5th Zoom Garden Plot season. We learn about gardening from local experts and share our gardening questions, thoughts and solutions. Email garden@sustainablewarwick.org if you would like to receive the invitation for the next Zoom session. You can watch the videos from the first 4 seasons here to see what the sessions are like. We meet twice a month through the growing season.
Composting Strategies Demonstration
A demonstration on best strategies for managing a 3 bin pallet system to create beautiful compost.
Zoom Garden Plot - Season 5
Monday, April 8th - 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Online Zoom gathering
Gardeners of all levels are welcome to join us for the first session of our 5th Zoom Garden Plot season. We learn about gardening from local experts and share our gardening questions, thoughts and solutions. Email garden@sustainablewarwick.org if you would like to receive the invitation for the next Zoom session. You can watch the videos from the first 4 seasons here to see what the sessions are like. We meet twice a month through the growing season.
Plant Natives Fair
Participants will learn about how to adopt native plants in their own yards and how to get involved in community efforts to support biodiversity. Brought to you by the Warwick Valley Plant Natives Alliance.
GLGWL Meet and Greet / Seed Giveaway
This event will feature a short film piece (from documentary Tomorrow), seed giveaway, snacks and breakout groups. Join us!
GLGWL - Free Regenerative Film Series: Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
This film gives voice to a growing number of people building a more beautiful world. Featuring grassroots activists from every continent alongside internationally known figures like Noam Chomsky, Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein,and Jane Goodall.
GLGWL - Free Regenerative Film Series: Food Forest cohousing
In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in Southeast Portland, OR and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest.
Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who all help farm where there was once pavement, grass, a swimming pool, and an overgrown weed patch.
GLGWL - Free Regenerative Film Series: The Biggest Little Farm
A couple are followed through their successes and failures as they work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.
Muckville - Free Movie Screening
"Muckville" follows the story of Chris Pawelski's family farm through time, from the 'Polish wave' of the early 20th century, through the onset of climate-driven crop failures in the 1990's and subsequent pitfalls of US agricultural policy, and Chris's resulting existential crisis.
Seed Collection and Native Plant Dig Workshop
Changed to Sunday October 8th, due to weather. We will be digging up some Native Pollinators for you to bring home. We have a bounty of beautiful Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) for your garden and also some Sweet and Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), and a fun, informative walking tour to collect seeds from native pollinators and some veggies as well.
Food Preservation Demonstration
Learn all the basics of food preservation. This program will be an introduction and a “dry” demonstration of several popular food preservation methods including Home Canning, Dehydration, Pickling and Freezing, with a focus on food safety. Handouts and additional resources on each method will be provided.
Grow Local Greenwood Lake Farm to Table Dinner Fundraiser
Grow Local Greenwood Lake is thrilled to invite you to an extraordinary evening celebrating the bountiful harvest of our local community at our first annual Farm to Table Dinner.
Tickets are sold out!
Dirt Magazine Kitchen Garden Tour
Grow Local Greenwood Lake is sponsoring Dirt Mag’s Kitchen Garden Tour.
Weeds and Seeds
If you've ever asked yourself "Is that a weed or something I grew?" or if you've ever pulled out something you later regretted, then this is the workshop for you.
Come learn how to tell weeds apart from veges, which weeds are in fact edible, and also harvest some golden Coreopsis seeds which are now ready. In the process, help us get our garden ready for the 2023 Dirt Mag Kitchen Garden competition.
Flower Dig at GLGWL Common Ground Community Garden
We have a bounty of beautiful Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) for your garden and also some Sweet and Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum). Bring that plastic pot lurking in the back of your shed to bring them home!
Summer Potluck!
Come join us for our Summer Potluck and get to know your fellow local food enthusiasts! RSVP here.
Rain Water Harvesting Workshop
Rain Water Harvesting Workshop - free - led by Christopher Harrison, PE, of Harrison Regen.
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
We at Grow Local Greenwood Lake are so honored and excited to be part of World Localization Day!
We will be showing the amazing documentary ‘Planet Local - A Quiet Revolution’ and have a post screening discussion.
Lakeside Farmers Market
Lakeside Farmers Market opens June 10th and runs every Saturday from 9 to 1:00 through the month of October. Fresh vegetables and fruit to enjoy and a great way to support our local farmers! Grow Local Greenwood Lake will be there each weekend collecting food scraps for composting. Come on by and bring us your peelings, egg shells and coffee grounds - we’ll make some beautiful compost from what you once thought of as garbage!
Greenwood Lake Street Fair
Grow Local Greenwood Lake is excited to announce that we will have a booth at the Street Fair. Come visit us there!
Ongoing Events
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Zoom Garden Plot
2nd and 4th Mondays - 7:30pm
Zoom Garden Plot with Sustainable Warwick. Join us during the growing season to discuss your gardening questions with newbies and old pros. Go to the Zoom Garden Plot webpage to view past meetings and to request the link to join the next session. All are welcome!
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Food Scraps Drop Off
Saturdays - 9am to 1pm - June 10th through October
Look for our compost drop-off
bucket every Saturday at the Lakeside Farmers Market at Winstanley Park, Greenwood Lake. You can also drop off compost at the Common Ground Community Garden whenever volunteers are working in the garden. -
Crop Swap
Wednesdays - 6:30 to 7:30pm
June 30th through SeptemberWe invite our neighbors to come together regularly to share the abundance of their garden-grown fruits and veggies at the Common Ground Community Garden, located at 13 Poplar Street, Greenwood Lake.