Berea Garden Party Chronology

Click on the date to see the original invitation for a particular party (look for more to come in the near future).

You can also click on the hosts name to access their personal web-sites.

 

DATE                              

HOST(s)

PROJECT

·        October 25, 1999

Timi & Tambone

Boston Brainstorm!

·        November 20, 1999

Jane Post & Tim Hensley

Seed/idea exchange, planning

·        December 27, 1999

Monthly Party Announcement

Newsletter only

·        January 2, 2000

James & Erin Passmore

Clearing for gardens

·        February ?, 2000 *

Timi Reedy (Tambone in Boston L)

Plugging mushroom logs

·        March ?, 2000 *

Josh Bills, Susana Lein, Robert Rorrer, Damien & Sarah Mallen

Dowsing, digging spring and cistern, planting ginseng, farm-naming contest (Salamander Springs wins!)

·        April 30, 2000

Chris & Bobi Smith

Garden bed preparation, Clifford England presentation

·        May 28, 2000

Bob & Kathy Fairchild

Water line installation, rock removal

·        June 25, 2000

Robert Rorrer

Shack deconstruction, clearing

·        July 29, 2000

Berea College (Sean Clark)

Garden Tour, transplanting strawberries, double-dug beds

·        August 20, 2000

Josh Bills

Dry stacking stone foundation

·        September 10, 2000

Timi Reedy & Tambone Clemons

Dome raising

·        October 29, 2000

Susana Lein

Clearing, large rock relocation, solar oven demonstration, garden beds

·        November 18, 2000

England’s Orchard & Nursery

Tour, cleaning beds, repotting seedling trees

·        December 16, 2000

Joe Dinwiddie

Brainstorming, pruning holly trees, house repairs

·        January 26, 2001

Bobkat Farm Profile

Newsletter only

·        February? *

 

 

·        March 31, 2001

Carol O’Brien

Rock relocation, clearing brush

·        April 22, 2001 *

Salamander Springs

Tree walk, Earth day party

·        May 20, 2001

Bob & Kathy Fairchild

Burying waterline, building trellises, stump removal

·        June? *

 

 

·        August 6, 2001         (July Party)

Berea College SENS Program

Strawbale construction workshop

·        August 25-6, 2001

Dane Adams

Painting, clearing, fencing

·        September 30, 2001

Jane & Tim

Cob oven, root cellars, discussion, seed exchange

·        October? *

 

 

·        November 4, 2001

Bluebird & Levi

Planting garlic, foundation grading

·        March  23, 2002

Joan Reynolds

Cordwood masonry construction

·        April 28, 2002

Carol O’Brien

Digging foundation, relocating soil

·        June 2, 2002

      (May Party)

Robert Rorrer

Loft framing, board de-nailing

·        June 23, 2002

Jason Strange

Garden bed preparation, fencing

·        July 21, 2002

Damien Mallen

Foundation, framing, moving hellishly big timbers

·        August 5, 2002

Timi & Tambone

Plywood subfloor, cleaning & de-nailing oak floor pieces

·        September 22, 2002

Jane & Tim

Opening concrete cistern, pouring concrete collection pool, re-doing cellars

·        October 19, 2002

Joe Dinwiddie

Clearing, firewood

·        November 23, 2002

Susana Lein

Ditch digging, rock sorting, garden beds, grey water, water hydrant, pond

·        December 21, 2002

AnnaLou Ritchie

Derek Law’s presentation, seed exchange, hacky sack!

·        January 19, 2003

Jane & Tim

Organizational meeting

·        January 25, 2003

Timi & Tambone

Drywall installation

·        February

 

Vagina Monologues

·        April 5, 2003

(March party)

Josh Bills

Foundation, humanure house, planting, weeding, refinishing porch swing

·        April 27, 2003

Joan Reynolds

Cordwood workshop

(1-year anniversary)

·        May 31, 2003

Carol O’Brien

Deconstruction of an ugly and oppressively large shed

·        June 21, 2003

·        June 28, 2003

T&T’s Sustaina-ball

Haiti Block Party

BobKat’s Hoot-n-Holler

Multiple celebrations of shelter, summer, and community!

·        July 27, 2003

Snoopy Moberly

Barn gable, weeding, and mulching

·        August 10, 2003

Mitch Barrett & Carla Gover

Roof frame for outdoor stage and weed-eating

·        September 21, 2003

Berea College (Sean Clark)

Hoop house Project

·        October 19, 2003

Damon & Lisa Rosenbarker

Rock gathering, carpentry and bridge work, firewood splitting

·        November, 16, 2003

Levi Gordon & Bluebird Whitehead

Porch building, garlic planting

·       December 21, 2003

Timi & Tambone

Solstice celebration!

·       January 2004

None due to crappy weather!

N/A

·       February 22, 2004

Jane & Tim

Tore down porch and began framing new porch, de-nailed and sorted lumber, installed a drain around the solarium, and inoculated mushroom logs

·       March 28, 2004

MERJ Market

cleaned out and inventoried the storefront building, cleared adjacent beds,  cleared brush, cleaned trash, cleared and plowed garden beds, transplanted/ thinned daylilies, built compost bins, pruned,  cleared locust trees from the large greenhouse and chipped for mulch; replaced light bulbs in the garage

·       April 18, 2004

Berea College (SENS & Ecovillage)

Refurbished College Gardens strawbale shed, planted permaculture guilds in Ecovillage Food Forest

·       May 8, 2004

Appalachia—Science in the Public Interest (ASPI)

 

·       May 23, 2004

Jay Hensley

Made 3 raised gardens beds, a berry patch, and a mini vegetable garden, and planted a red bud tree and 2 rhododendrons

·       June , 2004

BobKat’s Hoot-n-Holler

 

·       July 31, 2004

Joan Reynolds

Cordwood construction and celebration

·       August 21, 2004

Jane & Tim

Worked on bunkhouse loft and Pappy’s new shed, installed gravel for gray water and ram pump

·       September 25, 2004

Berea College (La Vida Nueva)

Constructed a compost bin, painted a sign, painted the Berea Bikes workshop door, put away vegetables

·       October 23, 2004

Susana Lein

Close-in and roofed house and worked in the gardens

·       November 27, 2004

Robert Rorrer

Built and installed forms, moved gravel, dug trenches

·       December 18, 2004

Josh Bills & Andri Kukas

 

·       January 2005

None due to crappy weather!

N/A

·       February 19, 2004

Appalachia—Science in the Public Interest (ASPI)

 

 

* Note: Shaded months denote those for which there are no invitations (in Jane and Tim’s collection).  There are a total of 6 missing invitations, but there were at least 3 parties confirmed for those months. 

 

The Garden Party is a fun monthly gathering in which people learn about and practice sustainability and social responsibility through the local sharing of food, labor, and goods; through the networking of sustainability-related knowledge, news, and events; and by serving as a model for the formation of other Garden Party groups.

 

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