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April 15, 2008
Orientation to Working in the Olivia White Hospice Garden
Orientation Day
Tuesday, April 29th from 1030am - 1200pm. Stay for lunch and help us get started in the garden.
Have you driven past our gardens on Switzer Canyon Drive? There are even more gardens and adapted beds behind the home. Do you enjoy gardening (green or black thumbs welcome)? There are a variety of reason you might want to join us.
You would like to help Northland Hospice and the clients they serve.
You would like to learn more about specific gardening skills or plants (roses, native, xeriscape, Rock-Tea-Faerie gardens, greenhouses, adaptions for those with physical limitations, building pathways, drip systems, etc.)
You already have many gardening talents/skills and could teach us a few tricks.
You need to get volunteer hours to become a Master Gardener.
You like to get your hands in the dirt and don't have much space at home.
You enjoy the company of other gardeners.
Come join us for orientation day at the Olivia White Hospice Garden. Our regular crew has been meeting over the winter to plan the 2008 garden year. If you are interested in joining our group occasionally or as a weekly volunteer please come hear about plans for the year. Orientation will include:
What is hospice? and what is the Olivia White Hospice Home for?
A brief history of the development of the gardens
Goals and plans for 2008
Volunteer procedures
Tours of the garden and home
Our regular days in the garden are on Thursday mornings from 8am-12pm (May-October) You can come for all or any part of that time. We are also doing one Saturday a month this summer (4th) and will occasionally have special workdays for specific activities (weeding, rose pruning, staining the gazebo (May), major plantings (July), bulb planting (October).
If you are unable to attend the orientation but want to help in the garden please call Cynthia Davis (527-7548) or Loni Shapiro (522-8635). They will schedule a limited orientation.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature— the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. - Rachel Carson
Loni Shapiro
Olivia White Hospice Garden Coordinator
Posted by maxmaddy at April 15, 2008 3:34 PM