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Gardening Season 2023: Seeds!

Are you getting ready for all things SEEDS? Free Community Events start next week already!

Winter Sowing Workshop

Meet at the Green Connection on 15th Ave.
Catherine Shenk will be demonstrating how to start your seeds early and toss them out in a snow bank in a milk jug—well, the brassicas at least. Come and get all of your questions answered and leave enthused.

Details: Winter Sowing Workshop


Seedy Saturdays

Anchor Gardens has teamed up with all sorts of great organizations around town to give all of you the opportunity to share your excess seeds. Who really needs all 25 seeds in a package (unless you are a market gardener). Come and trade, pick up a new variety you’d like to try, share ideas with other gardeners, meet new people and attend workshops.

  • February 25th from noon – 3: Alaska Botanical Gardens and Yarducopia will join with Anchor Gardens at the Botanical Garden
  • March 4th from noon – 3: The Anchorage Museum, which also houses the tool lending library, will join Anchor Gardens at the Museum
  • March 11th from 3pm-5pm: The Eagle River/Chugiak Branch Library and That Thing Goin’ On will join with Anchor Gardens at the Library.
  • March 18th from noon-2:30pm: The Mountain View Library, which also houses the Seed Library, will join with Anchor Gardens at the Library.

The first 25 kids to ask for a seed planting kit at each event will receive a bag and instructions to take home!

Donate Seeds

If you have seeds you’d like to donate before any/all of these events, you can drop them off at Neighborworks, 2515 A St, Anchorage, AK 99503 before February 23rd and they will be distributed.

Guidelines for sharing seeds

Labels:

  • Please label all seeds well
  • Please be more specific than “little yellow flowers”
  • One variety per envelope

Varieties:

  • Bring seeds only 3 years old or younger.
  • Bring Vegetables and Flowers
  • No invasives please

Update your information for 2023

While you are thinking about Anchor Gardens, now is a good time to update your survey. This year we are going to focus on composting, so we are looking for sources of waste to share in our neighborhoods to build great compost piles, as well as folks who want to collect scraps from neighbors for their chickens or worms.

If you can’t find your “key” to get into our secure directory, click HERE to resend your unique link to access your survey. It may go to your junk mail, so look for an email from noreply@sum-app.net to get your entrance key. You might want to move your “noreply@sum-app.net” emails to your contact list or primary in box.

Alaskan values are all about sharing. Joining Anchor Gardens is a unique way to share with your neighbors and the community. We all bring value to Anchorage and we value you. We hope to meet you at one or more of these events.

Thanks so much!

Cindee Karns & the Anchor Garden Team


Donations help our mission!

Donate money: If you really love what Anchor Gardens is doing, please consider a donation of $10 or more to Anchor Gardens today. Donations are made through NeighborWorks Alaska (make sure to pull down to the Anchor Gardens tab under Gift Designation!).

Donate materials: Anchor Gardens is all about reusing waste that would normally go into the landfill or trucked to the valley. We use it to grow food and sequester carbon. Each summer we stockpile waste from horses and other farm animals here in Southcentral to distribute to backyard gardeners and farmers. We accept leaves and grass from lawn services and individuals. We take food scraps for compost from neighbors. We take all sorts of cardboard. Each neighborhood in Anchorage has at least one coach who connects neighbors to each other to reuse our waste leaving less for our landfill and more food security for Anchorage.

Things you can start collecting now:

  • Start a backyard frozen compost pail (or 35 gallon trash can) now that the bears have gone to sleep.
  • Add your coffee grounds, non-meat/dairy scraps, leaves, etc
  • Shred your old newspapers, phone books, other paper to layer in your compost pile.
  • Stockpile your old Amazon or other cardboard boxes to use in the spring.
  • Cardboard is a perfect weed blocker.

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