Lots of Garlicky Fun

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Rosedale’s 3rd Annual Garlic Event proved how much fun you can have when you infuse everything, and everyone, with lots of garlicky goodness.

Many thanks to all who attended and to our generous sponsors for the evening:

The Post Chicken and Beer, Divino Wine & Spirits, Sweet Action Ice Cream, Pajama Baking Company, Trompeau Bakery, Keith’s Coffee Bar, Baity Realty, and Harvard Gulch Golf Course for hosting the event in their clubhouse.

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The Post Chicken and Beer provided their wonderful craft brews for the evening, plus amazing Chicken Chicharrones – we’re talking the crispy chicken skin of your dreams with creamy, garlicky hummus on top. The Post Chicken and Beer will open in early December at 2200 Broadway, just a short walk from the garden. Can’t wait!

 

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Divino Wine & Spirits provided our event with specially selected wines to complement the garlic treats.  The Lenz Moser Grüner Veltliner Austrian white they chose is my new favorite.

 

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Lots of Rosedale garlic ready for sale.

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Carol is ready with lots of gazpacho. Made with vegetables from Rosedale garden and our own Korean Mountain garlic.

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Attendees sampling Rosedale garlic. You could try it raw or roasted, and in several garlicky dishes, including roasted garlic butternut squash soup, garlic scape pizza, garlic bread from Pajama Baking Company, and even a specially created garlic ice cream from Sweet Action Ice Cream.

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Baskets with Rosedale garlic and garlic-inspired gadgets were the perfect silent auction item to make your own garlic treats at home. Not to mention the more than $200 raised from the silent auction alone. Thanks to everyone who donated and to everyone who bid on the auction items.

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Learn all about planting, growing, and harvesting garlic while enjoying garlic scape pizza, and other goodies.

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Richard and Terry are ready to serve you specially selected wines from Divino Wine & Spirits.

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Mmmm. Chris serving up roasted garlic butternut squash soup made by Sara and Noelle.

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The band kept us rockin’ through the evening.  Right into…

 

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…a spectacular Colorado sunset.

Rosedale Garlic Tasting Event

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Garlic Clipart 3rd Annual Garlic Tasting Event

This event is SOLD OUT!!

When:  Saturday, October 1, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where:  Harvard Gulch Golf Course Clubhouse, located at 660 E. Iliff in Denver

Enjoy an evening of live music, gourmet garlic tastings, and sampling of a garlic-inspired tasting menu.

Try our garlic raw and roasted.

Taste the difference our gourmet garlic makes in garlic bread, garlic pizza, butternut squash soup, and more.

Even garlic ice cream!!

ENTER our cooking challenge!

Tickets are $15 and include tastings of all food and 2 drinks (beer and wine)

Tickets are advance sale only and space is limited.

This event is SOLD OUT!!

All of our Rosedale gourmet garlic varieties will be available to purchase.

All proceeds benefit Rosedale Community Garden and help us provide the garden with:  organic compost, organic straw for mulch, tools, water to keep our gardens growing, and many other items large and small.

Many thanks to our wonderful event business partners:

The Post Chicken and Beer – serving The Post Brewing Company beer and one of their signature dishes.  Opening early November at 2200 Broadway.

Divino Wine & Spirits – whose donation of wine will complement the event’s tasting menu.

Sweet Action Ice Cream –  creating a very special Rosedale garlic ice cream.

Pajama Baking Company – baking up garlic bread that will showcase Rosedale garlic.

Keith’s Coffee Bar – providing delicious non-alcoholic beverages

Trompeau Bakery – lots and lots of baguettes to slather with roasted garlic and the garlicky dips and spreads.

 

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Hopi Blue Corn Update: August 28, 2016

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Jackie and Milli are sending out big thanks to the crew who tilled and amended the blue corn plot at the beginning of the season.  To Russell, Sissy, Charles R., and Matt S., your efforts are paying off with a great crop of blue corn.

The best ones will be sent to the Santa Clara pueblo to be used in their traditional ceremonies. Read more about the Hopi blue corn project here.

Thank you!

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#CHOPITUP

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Thanks to everyone for being good composters and chopping your plants into manageable pieces this past week.  This, however, is Exhibit A under  “Composting Don’ts”.

Definitely a composting "don't".

Definitely a composting “don’t”.

Work Day: August 13, 2016

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Thanks to all who turned out for another great work day.  The garden is looking great!  We were too busy to take pictures while everyone was hard at work, but you can see from these photos that the results are amazing!

North Fence Line

Brenda led a team to weed and plant new perennials along the north fence line.  Thanks to: Jackie, Sue K., Steve K., Sarah M., and Trishia P.

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Play Area

Our fresh, new play area.

Thanks to Chris L. who dug out a base and spread a deep layer of wood chips for the playground equipment.

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Abandoned Plot Restoration

Charlie S. led a team to restore an abandoned half plot.  It looks beautiful!  And it has already been assigned for next season.

Many thanks to Tom M., Fran M., Sissy, Matt S., Linda B.

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Bokashi Test Site

The bokashi test site was weeded and a trench was dug to bury bokashi compost into.  We have a soil sample from before we began adding bokashi to the plot, and will take another sample at the end of the season to determine how the bokashi is improving the soil.

Many thanks Steve K. for the hard work of digging the trench, and to Charles M. and Priscilla for weeding.

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Bokashi Team Magic

Sorry, no photo, but the bokashi team did another amazing job of composting.  There’s plenty of bokashi tea ready to use as a foliar, or soil, treatment on your gardens.  My tomatoes are loving it! If the one gallon jugs are empty, there should still be plenty of tea in the two marked barrels on the farthest right end.  Help yourself!

Thanks to:  Marilynn, Andrew, Russell, and Zach.

I’m sure I have neglected to name everyone who turned out on Saturday, but everyone’s hard work is really appreciated.

Thank you!!

Arts in the Garden 

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Lead by Trishia Pollard

August 14, 2016 from 4-6 PM

Arts in the Garden

Lets get together for an evening of Art in the Garden.

Bring your own supplies, musical instruments, journals, drawings, painting, clay, dramatic props, cameras, or any other creative pursuits you enjoy. 

Bring along refreshments if you like. 

It will be fun to see another’s artistic pursuits.

Work Day: July 9, 2016

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It was the hottest work day of the season and everyone who participated ROCKED!!!  Maybe it was the desire to be done before we melted.  Thanks to everyone for all of the hard work.

The group harvesting garlic had everything out of the ground, bundled, tagged, and hanging in Amy’s garage by 11:00.  AMAZING!

Tom H., Helen B., Dennis H., Sissy L., Lara D., and Richard C. are rockin' Garlic Harvest 2016

Tom H., Helen B., Dennis H., Sissy L., Lara D., and Richard C. are rockin’ Garlic Harvest 2016

 

After the garlic bulbs are out of the ground, they need to be bundled, tied, and labeled.  The garden harvested 13 different varieties this year, so we really needed to keep them clearly labeled. Sissy and Helen were meticulous in keeping the different varieties properly identified.

Sissy L. and Helen B. bundling and tagging garlic before it goes to Amy's garage to cure for the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Sissy L. and Helen B. bundling and tagging garlic before it goes to Amy’s garage to cure for the next 4 to 6 weeks.

 

No excuses were accepted for not pitching in, either.  Allison T.’s due tomorrow, I think, but that didn’t stop her from harvesting garlic with us.

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The bokashi team harvested two new barrels of bokashi tea for everyone to use and started four new barrels on the bokashi cycle.  Tea is available for everyone to use and can be found in the many one-gallon containers near the barrels, or in the large blue barrel with the spigot for easy access, and in the smaller blue barrel, that you will need to dip your container into to fill containers.  If possible, please refill the one-gallon containers from the blue barrels after you use them and leave them for the next gardener.

Matt F., Heesoo C., Maryilnn B., on Bokashi

Matt F., Heesoo C., Maryilnn B., on Bokashi duty

Big shout out to Heesoo for joining us on this work day to help with bokashi after celebrating the birth of his daughter just four days earlier, on July 5!!!  Congratulations to Heesoo and Dawn, and a big welcome to Olivia, the newest Rosedale gardener.

 

We didn’t have time to snap shots of all the work that was being done, so thanks also to:  Charlie S., Fran M., and Pete S., for your help putting new chips on pathways, Tom M. and Fran M., for weeding the north fence line (still needs more work, if someone has some time), Paula G. for weeding and cleaning up around the PAH storage bin in the front of the garden. Allison S. for doing battle with the Japanese Beetles, and Allison S. and Kathleen M. for cleaning up the northeast corner of the garden.

And as always, sorry if I left anyone out, but your help is greatly appreciated and the garden looks great thanks to everyone’s hard work.

 

Evening Work Day – June 23, 2016

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The rains came and cooled everything off just in time for the start of the first evening work day.  Plenty of pizza and beer fueled another outstanding work day team.

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The goal was to clean up the perennial beds under the tree in the front of the garden, the herb garden, and the meeting area in the back of the garden.  Everyone grabbed a beer and started working while we waited for the pizza delivery.

Diane, Paula, and Doug tackle the herb garden.

Diane, Paula, and Doug tackle the herb garden.

 

Terry grabbed the hedge trimmers for some serious work on the meeting area…

Terry and hedge clippers vs. meeting area weeds. The weeds lost.

Terry and hedge clippers vs. meeting area weeds. The weeds lost.

 

The results in every section are amazing.  Check out this perennial bed BEFORE…

Charlie R. and Russell tackling the weeds in the perennial bed.

Charlie R. and Russell tackling the weeds in the perennial bed.

 

and AFTER….

Charlie and Chaz after a major clean up of the perennial bed.

Charlie and Chaz after a major clean up of the perennial bed.

 

Thanks to everyone for a great work evening!!