Richmond’s Neighborhood Gardens & Parks: “It’s a Community Thing” in this week’s Urban Views Weekly looks at community gardens across Richmond and has good words about the learning garden at Fulton Hill’s Neighborhood Resource Center:

“The idea is a learning garden because we have a preschool here,” says Mary Lou Decossaux, Co-Executive Director. “We also have an afterschool program here. Both groups of children participate in everything from planting the garden, to watering and weeding the garden, to picking the vegetables and eating them. We also have a café, a community kitchen which will serve vegetables picked from the garden. We serve them during Sunday brunch.”

Tricycle Gardens are presenting the first of a series of workshops on organic gardening: Introduction to Organic Gardening (7/24), Getting Started with Organic Gardening (8/7), and Fall Gardening and Winter Preparations (9/11). Each workshop will cost $15 and take place at 211 West 7th Street in Old Manchester. Please contact allison@tricyclegardens.org if you have questions.

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Attend Tricycle Gardens’ rain barrel work shop and build your own rain barrel! This Sunday, May 18, 2008, from 12-2:30ish @ Neighborhood Resource Center. Take home your own rain barrel for $40 OR $10 to attend and learn only.

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By Stacey R. Hamman

When you enter the Neighborhood Resource Center in Fulton Hill, you might be stopped immediately by a young entrepreneur who is raising money for a school project.

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Do you enjoy working with children AND working in gardens? The fine folks at Tricycle Gardens are looking for a few volunteers to work with the Fulton Hill NRC Learning Garden and the Winchester Greens Childrens’ Garden for the growing season of 2008. Call 804.231-7767 for more info.