Africa House Garden Work Party

The Intergenerational garden at EPCC isn't the only one IRCO manages. The Africa House  is having a work party to restore and rejuvinate the vegetable garden for next spring. We'll have African music, food, and a chance to meet people from this wonderful community.

When: Friday, November 9th from 10AM until 1PM
Where: 631 NE 102nd Ave
Bring: 
We will provide some food potluck style, any that is brought by volunteers is greatly appreciated.
Any work gloves or gardening tools that you may own.
Wear clothes that can get a little dirty, and make sure you plan for cold and wet weather!

We will primarily be cleaning out and tilling up the raised beds and placing cover crops in the existing soil. Additionally, we have some raspberries to plant in the ground, general garbage to pick up, and we're hoping to put mulch down in between the raised beds to help prevent weeds and make the garden look uniform and beautiful.

If you'd like to take part in the event, let Lori Rooney (lorir@mail.irco.org) or Abby Noon (noon.abby@gmail.com) know via email. The more the merrier, and anyone is welcome to come out.

See you there!

Photos From the Garden

There are still some flowers adding color to the native garden!

Collard greens and a cabbage that are almost ready for harvesting. Last week the kale, arugula, and swiss chard were harvested with cover crops popping up in the empty beds this week.

The garden basking in sunlight and a fresh watering.

Autumn Update

Hello! I'm Abby Noon, your new Volunteer Coordinator for the Intergenerational Garden at East Portland Community Center. I became involved with IRCO through Student Leaders for Service, a student department at Portland State University. I'm a double major in Economics and International Development there, with a long history of working in gardens up in Alaska, where I was born and raised.

I'm excited to be part of this project and see it blossom over the winter. The last few weeks I have worked on general maintenance in the garden: watering, weeding, and beginning the process of extracting fallen leaves from the plants in the native garden. My hope is to gather more volunteers and work on beautifying the garden space over the winter. Murals on the raised beds and multilingual sign posts for each different plant are just two ideas. The possibilities are endless as we take this garden through its first year.

I will be working in the garden every Wednesday from 1-3pm. Everyone is welcome to come by and help, munch on some arugula, or simply chat while enjoying the plants.

-Abby