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Plant Starter Sale
Organically grown plant starters for your garden! Classic varieties and unique varieties.
Tea and Tea towels; not your average tea party!
We’ll be busting out the hammers and getting a little loud in the garden as we sip some cool, home brewed teas and pound out some pretty cool tea towels using plants we find in the garden.
The Deep Impacts of Composting
Not a garden event, but all the same very much related!
Head on Down to the Island’s Ferguson Museum for a highly informative talk about compost!
More details at The Deep Impacts of Composting – Henry L. Ferguson Museum
Bugged out!
This one’s for the kids. Curious about those creepy crawlies that live in garden? We’ll be learning about some of the bugs that plague gardeners and the army of beneficial bugs that fight for juicy vegetable justice! Kids will have a chance to see some of these bugs in person and help release them into the garden to ensure a good harvest this year.
Shadow Drawings
A fun way to interact with the garden; come sit quietly and trace the shadows of the plants growing in the garden to make your own unique sketch. Very easy for all ages and abilities, pencils and paper provided, a great way to get a closer look at the textures and lines that make a garden look beautiful.
Potluck
This time we’re partying under the summer sun. Bring a favorite dish to share and come hang out for some good old fashion fun.
Evening in the Garden 2024
September 7th, from 6-8 P.M.
Please join us for our 3rd annual Evening in the Garden
At the end of the summer, the garden is at its most beautiful, especially as the sun starts to set and dusks golden rays kiss the earth.
We’re doing things a bit more informal this year, but still with plenty of wine, delicious food, and lights.
No entry fee, however, we ask that you’d bring your generous heart as this is a fundraising event.
Seed Swap
A fun event from a couple of years ago, bring any extra seeds you may have and join us to trade seeds and tips with some neighbors. No seeds, no problem, there are plenty to go round.
Fall Harvest Potluck
Bust out your favorite family pie recipe and get ready to have a good time. We’re opening up the garden for the sake of getting together and sharing some great food. A free community event, just bring yourself, your family, and if you’re up for it, something yummy to share, we’ll have some simple old fashion festival games, some tunes, and a whole lot of happy to go around!
Seed Snakes and Caterpillars!
After a dry, dry July it’s nice to see some green again as August is often aglow with a rainbow of color in the garden! A fun activity for little ones, come assemble some wacky garden buddies! We’ll be stuffing some stockings with soil and seeds so they can sprout and get some giggles going!
DIY Rock Garden
Another fun in-garden activity for all ages over two! Come assemble your very own take home rock garden! Great for gardeners with black thumbs!
Evening in the Garden
The Evening in the Garden is back, only this time it’s dinner! Please join us for a beautiful evening under the lights in the garden and enjoy a delicious garden themed meal of roast vegetables, seared steak, and chicken all prepared by Karla Heath and hosted by the FICG Committee along with Ms. Barbie Riegel! Tickets available soon. Rain date July 18th
Special Guest visit from Drew's Honeybees
Joining us in the garden for a discussion with a couple of great guys from Drews Honeybees.(Drew's Honeybees–From Bees to Balms to Better Human Outcomes (drewshoneybees.com) ) We’ll be gleaning some great knowledge as these gentlemen share some of what they know about our local pollinators and the art of keeping honeybees. This event is free to the community so grab a buddy and buzz down to the garden for what will be an amazing look into the life of bees.
Paint and Plant!
Come have fun with us in the garden, decorating pots and planting up beautiful flowers to take home. This activity is for people of all ages, (2+) All necessary supplies will be provided, just bring your artistic side and a smile!
Starter Sale!
Looking for some Organic/Heirloom Starters? We’ve got some! Come meet up with us Saturday Morning between 10 and 11 am on June 3rd. Site to be announced! The proceeds, as always, go right back in to making the garden a haven for the community, as well as supporting fun in-garden community activities! Don’t worry if you miss us, the starter sale will be running for a few weeks, in the garden.
Annual Scarecrow Contest
Time to put on our thinking caps and enter the Annual Scarecrow Contest! Dream it up, assemble it, and bring it on down to the community garden to hang in the garden! Scarecrows will be judged on the 27th of November. This year we’re giving out trophies! Entry fee of $10 dollars goes towards kids’ programs next summer!
Some suggestions: classic, last year’s costume, a play on words, a familiar community face (got someone you’d like to pay tribute to?), rummage sale model, a knight in shining armor (spray paint old plastic flowerpots with silver and string them together to make the segmented armor), beach bum (make one out of things cleaned off the beach), a gardener.
Get ‘a-head’ - having a hard time figuring out how to make the head?
Some options could be a hollowed-out pumpkin that sits on top of “t” shaped sticks, an old bouy, a recycled jug, a stuffed t shirt gathered into a ball.
Looking for more ideas? Check out some videos on YouTube such as this one (353) How to Make a Scarecrow - Step By Step Craft Project - YouTube
We’ll see you in the garden!
An Evening in the Garden
An Evening in the Garden, come join us in the garden to help raise funds for next year’s programs. see our home page for more information and where to purchase tickets.
Flower Pot Potluck
A potluck of another kind, instead of food we’re looking for flowers!
Pot up some of your favorite plants in your own flowerpot arrangement. Drop off your creation in the garden where it will be displayed along with other community flowerpot arrangements.
Please remember to include a plant label with your name and number so your arrangement can make it back home to you.
Seed Swap
Spring is in full swing, and getting your seeds in order to start starters, and plan your garden beds can be very exciting!
On Saturday April 23 the garden will be hosting a super casual seed swap. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and any extra seeds you may have (because who needs to plant all 300 tomato seeds that came in the packet?) and head on down to the garden!
No seeds? No problem. The garden has some to share with everyone, and a seed swap is a great opportunity to chat with other gardeners.
Swap starts at 11 am with a rain date for the following afternoon at 2.
What is a garden?
We’re inviting kids and community members to draw a picture of what a garden means to them.
Pictures should be submitted via email, mail (P.O. Box 238) or dropped off at the garden in our white drop box.
All pictures submitted will be shared at the garden as well as on our website.
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” - Claude Monet
Fishers Island Community Garden, P.O. Box 238 Fishers Island, NY 06390, 788-7709, fishersislandcommunitygarden.@gmail.com, www.ficgarden.com
Holiday Gift Basket Raffle
A Handsome woven jute basket full of Gardening fun for the gardener in your family! Valued at $100 dollars, the basket contains an indoor grow light, edible flower seeds, snips, twine, blown glass watering bulbs, thistle socks, “double surprise” tulip bulbs, gardening gloves, a ‘grow-your-own’ mushrooms kit, gardeners hand soap/salve, and seed saver packets. Tickets will be available for sale on the weekends at the post office starting thanksgiving weekend, and daily as ‘self service’ in the garden. 1 ticket for $10 or 4 tickets for $30. All proceeds keep the garden growing!
Scarecrow Contest
Think you have what it takes to build a winning Scarecrow? Inspired by the Scarecrow contests held in the Hamptons, we’ll be hosting our own scarecrow contest in the garden. Individuals, families, or groups, can get their creativity juices flowing to build their own ‘one-of-a-kind’ scarecrow. The scarecrows will be displayed in the garden for a little more than a month, and will be judged for creativity, humor, originality, effectiveness, etc. Entry fee of $15 dollars a spot.
Shed Assembly
Our garden shed should be arriving in late August, we’ll be needing hands to help assemble it! If you have carpentry experience or would simply love to lend a hand it’s sure to be an great opportunity to work together and learn something from one another as we will quite literally be ‘raising the roof’! Stay tuned for more exact dates and times!
Build and BBQ
Come join us to help assemble the garden. We need help building raised beds, setting the fence, leveling spots and much more. Even if you simply lend a hand to hold a 4x4 in place while the holes are filled, it makes a great difference! We’ve got tasks for all physical abilities. We would really like to take advantage of the remainder of this year’s growing season, and without hands to help we can’t make this project happen fast enough. So please, come on down; lend a hand. We’ll be cooking up some burgers and dogs, enjoying some cold beverages, and listening to some tunes.
Night at the Movie theater!
Got a question? We’d love to hear it, and you can ask it at our Q& A night at the movie theater! We’ll be sharing with the community a short 30 minute film about a year in one of Colorado’s community gardens, then opening up the floor for questions. So if you’re free, come on down!