Spring has arrived. Spring always arrives eventually! The earth is waking up and we gather in the garden again to prepare it for summer. Here is the program: We will meet in the garden at 3.00 pm on sunday We will plant summer seedlings in the vegetable beds. Özkan Öktel…
It’s inevitable – the work doesn’t end at the garden. Despite continuing threats to our space, we are still planting in our garden! This Sunday we will do maintenance work on the saplings we planted in the last few weeks and throw seeds to establish ground layer in empty areas.…
Winter is gone, it is time to harvest! Most of our winter crops have matured and they are ready to be picked. We want to share what we’ve grown with everyone that had a helping hand in the process. Before the first harvest is gone, we would like to cook…
Greetings to the People of Roma Community Garden! We have more work to do. This weekend, we would like to meet and finish our remaining work. We will be in the garden this Saturday and Sunday, after 13:00. We will be waiting for you. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/538073663031438/…
We planted our fruit trees and some companion plants. Ground cover seeds met the soil. We would like to thank our dear friend from Kuzey Ormanları Savunması (Northern Forests Defense) Hasan Fazıl Afacan for supporting us with seedlings and bushes we needed for our food forest. Seedlings Hasan sent us…
If you wish to have your own tree planted in the middle of İstanbul, We are waiting for you on November 29, Sunday at 12:00 … We want to turn Roma Community Garden into a sustainable “Food Forest” or “Forest Garden”, where we have year round harvest. In other words,…
Roma Community Garden meets Alakır Nehri Tuğba, who lives in Antalya-Alakır Valley is going to visit Roma Community Garden. Everyone is welcome in the garden; acquainted ones to fulfill their longing, the ones curious about her living experiences in the nature to meet her, to picnic, and to work in…
We get together this weekend to prep our Garden for the winter “Winter is on its way. Let’s go outside and play!” We started with the motto: “Less talk, more work!” and it worked. Last summer we built our vegetable beds, created our own compost, planted trees around the garden,…
All through the summer, we have been eating tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, weeds, purslane, blackberries and picking basil, thyme, rosemary and lavender. We have turned our organic waste into compost. With autumn arriving, it is now time to plant winter seedlings. We will be in the garden on November 7,…