Harmony Garden requests please do not pick produce.  The member gardeners of SCCGA invest love and hardwork in their garden plots to produce food for their families. They pay to use the garden plot.   Picking produce from the garden is stealing.

  Harmony Garden has been experiencing some generosity from an anonymous source, or maybe several generous sources.   First we found a bounty of a variety of herbs, all potted up and ready to plant. Then came some very charming garden gnomes, along with other garden accents.   It didn’t stop there, someone has very [...]

With about two hundred onlookers in attendance August 9, 2008, a beautiful sunny day, the annual Lakeside cardboard boat race was underway. Racer safety provided by the Lakeside volunteer fire department with an assortment of boats created in garages all over Coos county, the race was on. Boats had names such as silver speed, paper or plastic, and pink zebra. [...]

A happening in Lakeside……. What a spectacular event and opportunity to see vintage planes up close and personal……… A big thank you to the Lakeside Lion’s Club for hosting this event.

The drawing for the quilt took place Sunday the 17, at the boat races.  The lucky winner was Sandy Thayer.  Congratulations Sandy….. Paulette Rigsby creates art in fabric, she has received the quilter of the year award from the Coast Quilter’s.  She was recently the featured quilter at the Presbyterian Church in Reedsport.  The Harmony [...]

Aaron Richards demonstrating how worms are the perfect little compost makers,  perfect way to recycle your kitchen scraps and then use the resulting compost in your garden.  This was the second lecture of the summer garden series at the Harmony community garden.  There are two more lectures before summer’s end.  Watch here for the announcement.

  Street Fair Fun!        As a joint effort fund raiser, the Lakeside Chamber of Commerce, the Lakeside Women’s Club and Harmony Garden groups shared a both at the Independence Day Street Fair.  The Chamber provided hand out materials from local businesses, maps, magazines and periodicals to provide visitors with information on activities [...]

Watch for posting of guest speakers with gardening tips.

The Harmony Garden has been awarded two grants, one form the Coquille Indian tribe and one from Cow Creek. Diane O’Bryan, our master gardener is accepting and thanking the Cow Creek Association and the tribe for $1,000.00. She previously accepted $5,000.00 from the Coquilles’s.

This is Lakeside’s Community Garden. We gave it the name of ‘Harmony’, because that is what we dream of for Lakeside, harmony. It is beautiful. After the election of 2006 councilor Cathy Walker began assembling committees, her campaign pledge was to have an involved community. Out of the ‘blue’ she fell ill and asked Mack [...]