First planting May 30th, 1pm

Everyone is invited to the inagural planting of the Three Sister Community Garden located at Church of the Saviour UMC (map). You may also join us for a potluck lunch at noon in celebration of Homecoming weekend at Church of the Saviour. We look forward to getting our hands dirty and making new friends. We are looking for donations, both monetary and otherwise so if you have any of the following please bring them along (to use for the day or donate):

• Rototillers (especially larger ones will be useful for evening out the soil)
• Shovels
• Rakes
• Gloves
• Other garden implements
• Scrap wood/trellacing
• Fencing

Please feel free to bring along any seeds, seedlings or plants you care to share with us. The 3S Garden Committee will be shopping for plants this Friday and plan to purchase at least some of the following:

• Tomatoes
• Berry plants
• Beans
• Asparagus
• Corn
• Herbs
• Zucchini
• Cucumber
• Melon
• Squash/pumpkin
• Grapes
• Greens
• Flowers

Don't forget to check with our website regularly. We'll be posting pictures, stories about the garden, updates about what is growing or available for harvest as well as a few recipes using produce from the garden.

You can keep track of updates on this website by e-mail or by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Hope to see you on Sunday.

Three Sisters Gardens

Welcome to our website. We've chosen the name Three Sisters for our community garden to reflect the loving support of the three churches who are sharing in this project. But the name also refers to an intercropping gardening technique in which crops grow along side each other. There are many variants, but plants like corn, squash, and beans are often used. This type of planting was common among Native American groups.

The different attributes of the crops benefit the entire group. The stalks of the corn supply support for the beans. The beans add nitrogen to the soil. The leaves of the squash keep down weeds and retain moisture in the soil. By growing together, the crops grow better. That's how we like to think of our community and church, too.