THE GARDEN STORY

Retail Construction Services, Inc. is dedicated to giving back.

We give back not only to those in need within our community, but also the future generations of this wonderful community. What started out as a great idea has grown exponentially and became an amazing reality. Here at the RCS Giving Garden, school groups, master gardeners, corporate volunteers, and our own employees work together for the common good of teaching children the art of gardening and the importance of healthy eating. Click Here for Full Story.

LOCATION:
Retail Construction Services, Inc.
11343 39th Street N.
Lake Elmo, MN 55042

From HWY 36 - go south on Lake Elmo Ave, turn left onto 39th Street, garden is at corner of 39th and Laverne.
From HWY 5- going west from Stillwater take right onto Laverne (near Fury dealership) garden is on the right at corner of Laverne and 39th street.

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The RCS Giving Garden

The RCS Giving Garden

7/13/11

Generous Donation from the Lake Elmo Jaycees!

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This week the RCS Giving Garden received an incredibly generous gift from the Lake Elmo Jaycees!  Dawn from our office has had an affiliation with this wonderful organization and had contacted them the garden project.  This past Thursday night the group voted to make a $300.00 donation to our garden.  Words cannot express our gratitude for your generosity and the impact it will make on what this garden can give back not only to the food shelf, but in the lessons it has to teach within our community.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

"We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

7/8/11

ALC "AND" SPIN Students in the Garden!


High School and SPIN Kids together again! (Click photo to enlarge)
The ALC and SPIN Students were in the garden this am with the ALC students taking on the role as mentors to the SPIN students!  There was a lesson plan on composting that the ALC taught the SPIN students.  They relocated our compost bin along with picking produce and garden maintenance projects. 

The final lesson, building a soda bottle bioreactor ((Click here to view the project!)), was one that the students could take back to the classroom or home.

Thank you to both of these wonderful group for joining us in the garden!  We look forward to you sharing pictures of your homemade bioreactors!!!

7/6/11

Summer Stretch Students Return to the Giving Garden!

A second group of students from the St. Croix Summer Stretch Program returned to the garden.  The students learned to harvest strawberries, zucchini and cucumbers.  Unfortunately, the strawberry crop had come to a screeching halt, so the students only had a small taste.  When the crop was picked and weighed, they moved on to the beans and pea pods.  These six rows needed extra stringer lines added in order for the produce to have more climbing space.  Once again, this Summer Stretch group was a wonderful group to work with...!  Lots of smiles from these hard workers.  Thank you Summer Stretch!
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