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Island Garden Tour
Saturday August 1, from 10 am - 2 pmGathering Ground is happy to present our first garden tour. We've asked 8 Island gardeners to open up their gates to visitors and share a little bit of Island...
Community Composting: Why and How
Let's say you live here on the Island, or regularly visit, and don't have your own compost pile. You now have a way to compost your organic matter at Gathering Ground! "But why is this important?...
Community Compost
Beginning in July, our community compost program will be up and running. Our goal is to recycle the kitchen and yard waste from Island households and businesses, up to the holding capacity of our structure, diverting the waste from being dumped and carted off-island. All while producing black soil to enrich our gardens and orchards.
Mass Trapping of Rose Chafers
The last few years have been very trying for many gardeners on Washington Island due to massive numbers of rose chafers. We have been researching methods of organic and biological control at...
How to Prune Apple Trees
On a quiet April day, Casey Dahl of Folk Tree Farm on Washington Island shared his pruning knowledge with a couple of neighbors in their old apple orchard. The trees had not been pruned in years and...
Winter is for planning and reflecting on the land
By Russell Rolffs. This article first appeared in the The Washington Island Observer. Winter evenings are best spent sitting near the stove and dreaming of what to plant in the spring. The same is...