Come join us in the garden for our First Annual Holiday Garden Craft Fair. We will make holiday crafts and ornaments using recycled materials.. some thing for everyone, ALL AGES WELCOME! No charge to make crafts, we ask that you bring a non perishable item for St. Joseph's Family Center. Drop in anytime between 1pm and... 4pm this Saturday, 12/ 4. We're at Eigleberry between 6th and 7th Streets.
The folks from the Gilroy Senior Center will be selling hand made goods
and quilts!.. and Patti Tartaglia, owner of "The Food Fixx L.L.C.",
will be serving a fabulous "Curried Pumpkin and Apple Soup" made from
the organic pumpkins grown in the garden.
Please stop by and try this great holiday recipe!
Looking forward to seeing you in the garden!

Visits from the Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts

In November, we were honored by visits from the Boy Scouts, as well as, the Girl Scouts. We enjoyed giving them individual tours around the garden, having them pick and sample some fava beans, having them join in and pull some weeds and planting some California Poppies in our drought tolerant beds. Hanna (a boy scout's sister) was glad to learn about the fava beans, that when her girl scout troop came the following week she shared the beans with them. The garden is contagious!

Seems our organic herbs are getting pretty popular.. Thanks everyone:)
By special requests, we're adding Thanksgiving hours at the Garden.
This week only (weather permitting), we'll be open Mon - Wed 9am - 12noon for you to get fresh, or dry, herbs to marinade/add to your dishes.. or olive oil + herb dips. We also have lots of organic lettuce!

Oh, & in case you haven't heard.. we now have ORGANIC SATURDAYS! GDG Farm Stand 10am - 1:30pm.. here in downtown Gilroy.. help spread the word.

Tom & Judy planting young grape plants for our grapevine fence, while our 1st Saturday Organic Farm Stand had butternut squash, eggplants, beets, celery, large variety of lettuce, zucchini, pumpkins, green & red peppers, parsley, sage, rosemary &... ALL organic.. woo hoo!!

Our Saturday Farm Stand Song

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme - our saturday Farm Stand song!
Yep.. we're gonna have a farm stand starting this Saturday from 10 - 1pm. There's lots of fresh organic herbs for your holiday needs + organic seasonal produce. Let's start gearing up for our Farmers' Market coming this summer!.. YEP! We're SO excited!!...

We're also excited about our Saturday workdays - are now Potluck workdays. 10 - 1 garden.. 1 - 2 Potluck..

Come by any.. rosemary and thyme..!

Imagine creating angels with corn husks, bird feeders with pine cones.. or.. making your own stationery with garlic skins.. that's what we'll be demonstrating before the downtown Christmas parade on Sat, 12/4.

Wander in & join us between 1 - 4pm .. We'd love to break pumpkin bread with you at our Garden Holiday Craft party:)

BTW... here's the link to our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gilroy-Demonstration-Garden/161038493917945

Hit the "LIKE" button (after you sign in) and we can tell you more about our upcoming potluck workdays, summer farmers' market, recipe book...

Holiday Craft Day in the Garden

We're gonna have our first Holiday Craft Day on Sat., 12/4!
We're thinking that we have pine cones we can decorate.. lots of egg cartons that can make nice ornaments.. maybe make paper mache ornaments or small pinatas.. Nora's making paper stationery with what's in the garden and we could make a garlic doll or corn husk dolls or angels. We'll have apple cider & pumpkin bread.. come create with us before walking to the downtown Christmas Parade.