Resources for Growing in Cambridge
From Get Growing, at Cambridge Winter Farmers Market, March 29, 2014
Beekeeping: Mel Gadd, melvinira@gmail.com
Mushrooms: Dan Bensonoff and Dan Schenk, jpmushrooms@gmail.com
Backyard fruit, chickens, bees: Sylvia Rozwadowska, sylvia.rozwadowska@educatius.net
Edible weeds, microgreens, sprouts: Helen and Jules Kobek, ejkobek@gmail.com
Composting: Adam Jankauskas, City Composting Co., adamj@citycompost.com
Plant Ecology Advocates for Literacy in Environmental Sciences (ALES) at BU. Contact: Liz Braun,
ecbraun@bu.edu
Seedlings (advice on starting, and seedlings for sale): Ann Marie and Jeff Harrington, Harrington Seedlings
harringtonseedlings@aol.com, www.facebook.com/HarringtonSeedlings
Expert farmer: Andrew Pollock, Silverbrook.Farm@Comcast.net [has a stand at the market]
Permaculture: Laura Quincy Jones, lauraquincyjones@gmail.com
Building a raised bed: Mitch Ryerson
Other resources for gardeners:
- City of Cambridge website on composting
http://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/ourservices/recyclingandtrash/aboutrecycling/Composting.aspx
- Somerville Garden Club, www.somervillegardenclub.org. Meetings second Weds. of each month, 7pm, 167
Holland St. Advice/mentoring, newsletter, other activities.
- Boston Natural Areas Network www.bostonnatural.org/citynativesnursery.htm
- Grow Native educates about invasive plants, has many events grownativemass.org/
- Urban Homesteaders League (Meetup, offers many workshops) www.urbanhomesteadersleague.org/about.php
- Plant Swap in Fayette Park, Camb. Twice a year (first Sat. in May, second Sat. in Sept.), gardeners exchange
plants and knowledge. To get notices: Snively@post.harvard.edu.
- Gardeners’ listserv. To join, go to url below, click ‘join this group’ and cursor through the questions.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MidCambridgeGardeners/
No growing space? Work with others (and have a blast!):
Garden in someone else’s yard/share your own: My City Gardens, Jessica Bryant, jess@mycitygardens.com,
www.mycitygardens.com
Harvest urban fruit: League of Urban Canners, https://www.facebook.com/LeagueOfUrbanCanners
Harvest unclaimed produce: Gleaners, http://www.bostonareagleaners.org/
Help in gardens at city schools: City Sprouts: http://citysprouts.org/
Help at the Harvard Community Garden, Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge (in front of Lowell House)
http://www.garden.harvard.edu/ Check website for weekly work day
Help at Friends of Alewife Reservation, maintain perennial garden: Ellen Mass, elnmass@verizon.net
Get involved at Somerville Community Growing Center: www.thegrowingcenter.org/about.html
List compiled by Helen Snively, Snively@post.harvard.edu. Please contact me with questions, or updates to this list.
3/20/2014