Join us for a day of planting sunflowers and pumpkins, garden crafts and fun science experiments with plants for children and their families.

Saturday, May 11, 10-12pm
NOPL @ Cicero LibraryFarm

Registration is requested, click here to sign up!

Find out more about our LibraryFarm.

Other upcoming events:

Starting Thursday, June 27 – *NEW* Junior Gardeners
A new club meets over the summer to plant and tend two raised beds in the LibraryFarm community garden. For children ages seven and up. Find out more!

Wednesday, May 22 – Habitat Gardening For Life
Presented by Janet Allen, President of Habitat Gardening in CNY. By providing habitat for even the smallest creatures and by using earth-friendly landscaping practices, we can help create a healthy planet for future generations. Become a habitat gardener and watch your yard come to life. 6:30pm – 8pm. Sign up.

Tuesday, June 4 – What’s Bugging Your Garden?
Nothing is more frustrating for a vegetable gardener than to find that something is destroying your vegetables. Often the pest is not even seen. Slugs and bugs slip in and cause trouble that you may not notice until too late. What’s Bugging Your Garden? is about things like squash vine borers, cucumber beetles and cabbage worms, and a few larger creatures such as groundhogs and rabbits, and ways to stop or minimize their damage. Presented by John Allen. 6:30pm – 8:00pm. Sign up.

Saturday, June 15 – Seed Saving
Learn about saving seeds from your plants this season and participate in a seed swap program. Presented by Jenny Stratton. 11am – 12pm. Sign up.

The LibraryFarm is an organic community garden on one-half acre of land owned by the Northern Onondaga Public Library in Cicero, NY. Anyone can “check out” a plot! The purpose of the LibraryFarm is to provide a place for the community to grow, share and learn about food literacy, and organic, sustainable gardening.

At the LibraryFarm, half of the area is dedicated to the Community Garden; the other half is dedicated to the LibraryFarm Plotters – our individual gardeners. All gardeners agree to follow organic growing practices.

Come visit us! We are located at the NOPL @ Cicero Library.

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2013 Activities, Classes and Related Programs

January 19 – LibraryFarm Meeting
January 23 – The Herb Academy “Skin Care”
February – Herb Academy “Herbal Cleaning”
March 16 – Whole Food Nutrition Class
April 20 – Garden Party (click here for details)
May 11 – Family Fun Day (click here for details)
May 22 – Habitat Gardening for Life: Presented by Janet Allen (click here for details)
May 28 – Library Farm Plotters Meeting (click here for details)
June 4 – What’s Bugging Your Garden? Presented by John Allen (click here for details)
June 15 – Introduction to Seed Saving: Presented by Jenny Stratton (click here for details)
June 17 – Library Farm Plotters Meeting (click here for details)
July 31 – Library Farm Plotters Meeting (click here for details)

Previous Activities, Classes and Related Programs

November 17, 2012 – Library Farm “Bedtime” meeting
September 22, 2012 – Food Canning and Preservation
August 12: Herb Academy – Rosemary & Thyme
August 6, 2012: Herb Academy – Sage & Lavender
July 30, 2012: Herb Academy – Dill & Mint
July 23, 2012: Herb Academy – Parsley & Basil
May 19th, 2012 – Library Farm Kickoff
May 12, 2012 – Build Your Own Mesclun Year Round (Jennifer Cleary)
April 30, 2012 – May 2: Master Composting class with OCRRA’s Greg Gelewski
April 21, 2012 – Planting Seeds and Transplants in the Garden
March 17, 2012 – Timing: When to Plant What (John Allen)
February 18, 2012 – Food Isn’t Ugly: Fitting Edible Plants into Your Existing Lawn, Landscape & Garden (Terry Ettinger)

December 10, 2011 – The Slow Food movement (Chef Abigail Henson)
August 31, 2011 – Garden Fresh Cooking
September 10, 10:30am – Edible Gardening CNY
August 20, 2011 – What do I do with all this squash?
May 21, 2011 – LibraryFarm Kickoff event
May 14, 2011 – Pests and other problems.
May 2-4, 2011 – Master Composting Class, with OCRRA’s Greg Gelewski
April 9, 2011 – Watering, fertilizing.
March 19, 2011 – Compost, Compost, Compost!
February 19, 2011 – Starting seeds indoors.
January 8, 2011 – Succession planting, ordering seeds (link)

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