Join us on April 9, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm for an event in collaboration with Here We Grow: Garden Supply & Tool Closet hosted by InnerSource Wellness Center
Present the New Castle County Garden Exchange
Spotlighting The Village Tree GardenNew Castle County Garden Exchange (NCCGE)
Seeds, plants, clippings, materials, supplies, and tools accepted in exchange.
New Castle County Garden Exchange offers:
> Gardeners a networking and trading space
> Provides gardening education
> Spotlights local community gardens to receive donations
> Resource giveaway
> Drop off location for HWG: Garden Supply Closet
> To provide 15 minute presentation on topic of choice. Possibly introduction of center.
For this kickoff event, we are spotlighting The Village Tree – Cecelia Rich (Founder)
The Village Tree is an organization that seeks to empower communities through strengthening individual and families, by means of utilizing the mind, body, and soul concept, while providing everyone with information and tools from local resources to assist them in self-sufficiency and sustainability.
Spotlight Needs List
1. Mushroom compost – 1 cubic yd
2. Children’s rubber coated gloves – 12 pair
3. Neem oil
4. Jobes – organic veggie and tomato fertilizer
5. Compostit – Compost accelerator for tumblers
6. Hand pruning shears – 5 pair
7. Water hose – 50ft or longer
8. PVC pipes and elbows
9. Rain barrel spigot diverter kit – 2 count
10. Irrigation hose
11. Hand trowels – 12 count
12. Wheelbarrow – 1
Our Spotlight Gardens are:
> Placed on event flyer to encourage donations prior to event with:
– Photo
– Contact info
– Short needs list
> Given donations collected during Exchange & mini campaign up to event
> Encouraged to trade unneeded items or donate them to HWG
> Present at Exchange to provide garden info & more in depth needs list to event participants
> Preferably can host an exchange at their location – NOT MANDATORY for Spotlight
> Automatically members of Here We Grow (HWG)
– Garden Supply Closet
Listed in the HWG Community Garden Directory New Castle County Garden Exchange (NCCGE), a partnership between Messiah’s Market and Here We
Grow, is a brand new garden materials exchange where individual growers and community garden representatives can meet up to trade what they no longer need for items that they do. With most exchanges being for seeds and/or plants, we developed the NCCGE with gardeners’ needs in mind. We
feel that more gardeners can bloom with the correct tools in hand, so we offer the opportunity to trade everything from seeds to pots to house plants to grow lights to harvested crops to mulch to tools and more. We also Spotlight NCCo community gardens to assist with them with gaining needed resources.
Here We Grow is a non-profit venture with the goal of maintaining the Garden Supply & Tool Closet to assist gardeners in NCCo with accessibility to materials, supplies, and tools; and the NCCo – Directory of Community Gardens & Urban Farms, making it easier for the public to find, contact, join, and/or assist our many community gardens that have been rapidly growing here in Delaware. Maintaining both allows HWG to keep a database making it easier to match incoming material and tool donations with available gardening recipients. If no matches are available, we add the donation to our inventory to be loaned out or given away later to community garden programs and home gardeners when they “shop”. Left over items from the NCCGE events are added to our inventory.
Here is a little about our event series: The New Castle County Garden Exchange.
– From April 9 to October 23
– 2 hours in duration – plus 1 hour set up & up to an hour break down
– Trading of goods – See list of examples
– 15 to 20 minute educational presentation will be at each
– Spotlight Garden is invited to make presentation otherwise one will be supplied
– Resource giveaway April 9 (items will vary at each event)
– Bamboo – for stakes and trellis construction
– Handout with construction ideas and instructions
– Coffee grounds
– Children’s craft table – Sponsored by Sovereign’s Sweets
