On a rainy April 28th morning the Parks Advisory/ Community Garden (PACG) members Robert O’Bryan, Diane O’Bryan, Michael Armstrong, and Mayor Rod Schilling,  loaded twelve completed flower box’s from Don Linwoods cabinet shop to various Lakeside business who requested them. This is part of the city beautification project of the Parks Advisory/Community Garden Committee. Two [...]

Gates have been installed at the “Funscape” playground, located at Lakeside city hall. It puts the finishing touch to the fencing, with the goal of keeping out sand loving dogs. After Robert O’Bryan’s bequest the guys met at Rod Schilling’s shop for a Park Advisory/Community Garden work day. With Rudy Sherych and Joe Orman measuring [...]

This year, Harmony garden has 20 raised beds available. As of this date there are five beds still available. Several holders have already started planting, some by seed and others by “starts.” Harmony’s cold frame bed has been planted with radishes, walla walla onions, green peppers, peas, cabbage and pak choi (a small cabbage like [...]

Robert O’Bryan, Rudy Sherych, Michael Armstrong, Dennis Langley and the Shutters Correctional Facility work crew, installed nearly all the chain link fence at the new playground. This was accomplished during a huge downpour. The fencing and posts were donated by Bonneville Power.

At the June, regular monthly Lakeside City Council meeting, Councilor Mack Eubanks reported on the Parks Advisory/Community Garden Committee. The Shutter’s Creek work crew placed the fence posts, and now the fencing will be completed in July at the old playground location. The plan calls for a Funscape to replace the very old equipment that [...]

Master Gardener Aaron Richards, will be at the Senior Center this Saturday, May 23 at 10 a.m. The public is encouraged to attend. The focus of the talk will be “worms eating your garbage” and garden composting. The former may even be a good thing. It’s here that you’ll find out the answer to this [...]

Saturday’s fertilizing and liming event for the community garden brought out mainly Parks Advisory Community Garden Committee (PACG) board members. They prepared 19 planting beds and a cold case for the upcoming garden season. And big ideas are brewing for a Lakeside makeover this summer. While the PACGC has been in action for just under [...]

Reserved a bed? Give your bed it’s first burp of the season and show up Sat. Feb. 21, at 10:00 A.M. Click headline for more.

BACKGROUND: For a historical review of the Harmony Garden project click here or click on the “Harmony Garden” heading on top of this site.

Garden applications will be available at city hall starting January 6, 2009.   It is requested that they be returned by the end of January. You will be notified by Harmony Garden if you have been assigned one.

Our community volunteers take down Christmas 08′. Guess what? Christmas 09′ is right around the corner. The trees from Mt. View Farms were still beautiful.