{"id":618,"date":"2020-03-19T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:39:42","slug":"coronavirus-response-actions-resources-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-response-actions-resources-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Response: Garden Actions and Resources For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to the coronavirus pandemic and in continuation of our mission, Alchemical Nursery is taking action and making resources available for you to start or scale-up growing food in whatever space you have access to. That can be in containers, yards, or community gardens such as Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden<\/a> or\u00a0Gifford Street Garden<\/a> in Syracuse. We hope these efforts will support community-based food sovereignty<\/a>, empowering public food supply and boosting personal resilience and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Food insecurity is an ongoing problem worsened by disasters of all sorts. In this pandemic’s social, health, and economic challenges, we see gardening as an opportunity to reduce strain on supply chains and provide local nutrient-dense fresh foods to people who are most vulnerable to food insecurity, home-bound, or sick. To achieve more widespread and robust gardening in our communities, we’re offering Raised Bed Training Livestreams, Garden Advising, Gardening Together (with Social Distancing), and Free Seeds Distribution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Will you join us in these efforts? Can we help you through these efforts? Reach out with a comment here, on Facebook.com\/AlchemicalNursery<\/a>, or by emailing us at info [at] alchemicalnursery [dot] org<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>1. Livestream Trainings: Raised Beds<\/h2>\n

VIDEO #1: A 15 minute tutorial from the Bitternut Homestead including learning about hugelkultur beds, herb spirals using urbanite, using biomass to build bed structure and borders, what to plant and when. This is the time to create or prep your raised beds for vegetable growing. Our last frost in Syracuse is around the first week to the middle of the month of May, depending on your micro-climate and whether you are in the city or outside of it. So you have time to get these in place if you want to be ready for planting out. You can also direct seed to beds very soon, even before the last frost, if you use cold hardy plant seeds such as spinach, arugula, radish.<\/p>\n