Happy Thanksgiving Poem from Helene C.

Let us give thanks...

For generous friends...with hearts as big as hubbards 
and smiles as bright as their blossoms;

For feisty friends as tart as apples;

For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us we had them;

For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;

For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn -- and the others -- as plain as potatoes, and so good for you.

For funny friends, who are as silly as brussels sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends as complex as cauliflowers and as intricate as onions;

For friends as unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini, and who -- like parsnips -- can be counted on to see you through the long winter;

For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening-time, and young friends coming on as fast as radishes;

For loving friends, who wind around as like tendrils, and hold us despite our blights, wilts, and witherings;

And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens past, that have been harvested - but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter;

For all these we give thanks.  

Amen. 

Film "Farmageddon" on Friday November 18th at 6:30pm at Alcott School

Hello Gardeners,

Thought you'd want to hear about a film being shown this Friday, details below:

Don't miss the first of the Focus on Food Film Series screening of Farmageddon on FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18, 7:30 PM at the Alcott School, 93 Laurel Street in Concord Center. The FREE film is co-sponsored by ConcordCAN and Walden Woods, and features discussion with local filmmaker Kristin Canty after the film. Learn more about the plight of small family farms caught up in regulations geared to factor farm agri-business.

Red Wiggler Event - Thurs. Nov. 10th at 7:30 at Harvey Wheeler

VERMICULTURE BASICS: WINTER COMPOSTING WITH RED WIGGLERS

Come join us on Thursday, November 10 at 7:30 pm with Ray Pourali, Green Planet, at Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main Street, West Concord (same parking lot as the Concord Children's Center). Please RSVP to deb01742@comcast.net by November 8! Come on your own, or bring a friend! All are welcome.

Tired of trudging through the snow to your compost bin?  Try vermicomposting....get rid of  your kitchen scraps in an odorless, effective and low cost INDOOR compost! Sound intriguing?? Learn more from Ray Pourali...Environmental Engineer by day...and all-the-time champion  of  vermicomposting!

This spring, Debbie Bier and the community gardeners brought Ray to Concord to sell the start up kit of red wigglers to 25 gardeners. I can attest that mine are alive and well in my compost  bin...but they will not take freezing weather. They are best for indoor composting! 

Ray will  bring concentrated compost tea for sale (500 ml, 3000 ml) to feed plants this winter ( a popular  product),  and 1/2 lb packages of the starter kit and care instructions, including how to make your own vermiculture bin!

Come join the discussion...and reduce the volume of trash at your curbside pick-up this winter!