Hi All,
Isn’t it GREEN outside today? Does everyone know what the acronym GREEN stands for in Project GREEN? “Grow to Reach Environmental Excellence Now”. This has been the motto for Project GREEN since its beginning, in 1968. Thanks to Gretchen Harshbarger, Nancy Seiberling, and Jim Maynard for their vision of GREEN for our Iowa City community. As we Project GREEN volunteers walk the 8 acre park, known as the Project GREEN Gardens, it’s upon these beginning times and the shoulders of the first who imagined the difference nearly 60 years of GREEN can make. Check out the projectgreen.org website and learn more about the important work volunteers, past and present, have accomplished. Currently Project GREEN volunteers donate to the GREEN weekly by giving time and energy to the Gardens helping make our fair city a special and welcoming place to live. Bravo to all!
There were 12 volunteers in attendance for our 6th week together caring for the Project GREEN Gardens (PGG). Each volunteer donated time from 9 – 11 a.m., which is two hours. Otherwise, the Week 6 volunteer time is listed after their name. They were: Diane Allen, Jerri Harding, Rina Sjolund 1 hour, Nick Goergen, Jim Peters 7 1/2 hours, Monica Hoherz, Pat Yeggy 4 hours, Cindy Parsons, Kara Frankman master gardener hours, Evelyn Frey 2 hours, Lisa Haverkamp master gardener hours, Susan Ahrens 3 hours. Our goals today were: eating birthday donuts, weeding flowerbeds and deadheading spent flowers, planting remaining flowers on the driveway, placing 250th signs in beds, chatting with Pat Yeggy about labels, straightening the garage (please take bottled water to refrigerator in Ashton House lower level), and cleaning and filling with fresh water our three bird baths located at the Northside Garage bed, Arch, and Nancy Seiberling peony bed.
Enjoy these pictures showing our signs celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary. Thanks to Cindy Parsons and Gary Kleinfelter to getting the signs ready for life at the Gardens.
The 9 a.m. temperature was 77 degrees when we began our time together and by 11 a.m. it was 81 degrees. The air quality was 43, described as “good.” Since we last met, the rainfall was 3 1/2 inches to 4 inches.
Here are the numbers for Week 6 at the Gardens. Weeks 1 – 5 + Week 6 = 379 hours + 27 1/2 hours + 3 hours writing this summary
= 409 1/2 hours volunteering at the 2026 Project GREEN Gardens! Congratulations to each and everyone of you.
Our next time together will be Monday, June 15th from 9 – 11 a.m. Until then, happy gardening! Diane