Giving Garden Irrigation System

The irrigation system for the RCS Giving Garden was installed yesterday. A big shout out to RCS owners Steve Bachman and Gim Middleton for designing the system, purchasing/installing the equipment and donating their time. The irrigation system is designed with timers so that all areas of the garden will receive the appropriate amount of water at planned intervals according to the specific vegtable type. Fantastic job Steve and Gim!

Planting

Finally, the RCS Giving Garden has begun to take shape. Today we planted herbs, beans, tomato's, peppers, broccoli, cabbage, squash, melons, watermelon, blueberries and others. Thanks to the employees of RCS and Wendy from Buells Landscape Center in Hastings, the entire process took about three hours.
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Work Has Begun

The RCS Giving Garden is starting to take shape. Todd Bruchu brought over his John Deere yesterday evening and turned up our lawn. Ready for planting next week!

Donors

RCS would like to thank and recognize the supporters who have graciously donated all of the vegtables, seeds, shrubs, trees and materials for the RCS Giving Garden. Please support these donors:

Buell's Landscape Center

Chippewa Valley Growers

Future Farm Food and Fuel

Bergmanns Greenhouse

Ivy Rose Design

National Reprographics

Retail Construction Services

Houle's Farm, Garden & Pet

Minnesota Hobby Bee Keepers Association

Coca-Cola

Ground Breaking

Ground breaking on the RCS Giving Garden is scheduled to be completed by the end of this week. Todd Bruchu of Lake Elmo, MN will be dontaing his time and equipment to help break up and till the soil so that we can begin planting next week. Thank you Todd!