Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Gail's volunteer work continues to take root as she embarks on her fifth year of caring for the Coventry Community Garden.
For the past several years, hundreds of residents in need have benefited from nearly two tons of vegetables grown by Coventry Community Garden volunteers. All the produce that is grown in front of the Town Hall Annex on Flat River Rd. and at the ASFMS greenhouse has been donated to the Coventry Food Pantry, stored and then distributed as quickly as possible. Additional smaller gardens have been organized at Coventry High School and both Western Coventry and Blackrock elementary schools, and are tended to mainly by students. But no one has had more fun and derived more satisfaction from the project than CCG Coordinator Gail Tatangelo. During her long career as an accountant after earning a degree from Bryant College, Tatangelo always …
Monday, November 26, 2012
Coventry High School students will tend to the garden and harvest its crops for the town's community garden.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
On Friday, Nov. 23, two students and a community volunteer came to Coventry High School to assist in the construction of the Coventry High School Community Garden. Dan Balcom, a recent graduate, Ben Desjarlais, a CHS student and member of BSA Troop 1 Coventry and Jim Martin, former Scoutmaster of BSA Troop 1 Coventry assisted Science teacher Peter Stetson in the construction of several raised beds that will be filled with soil, followed by vegetable and flower plants come the spring and summer. The entire project was funded through the Coventry Public Education Fund Grant for which Stetson applied last spring. It will involve several groups at the high school and within the community. Gene Dufault’s Woodworking class cut out the garden …
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Monday, August 27, 2012
1,600 pounds were harvested on Thursday.
Volunteers from the Coventry Community Garden, members of the Project FRIENDS Program and several helpful residents gathered on Thursday afternoon to harvest corn for neighbors in need from land on Flat River Road. Tim Gallagher, Owner of Old Saw Mill Farm has planted and donated crops and produce to the Coventry Food Bank for four years and 2012 is no exception. Gallagher explained that three separate corn plantings ripened simultaneously, making it imperative that the crops be harvested quickly. Thursday's harvest yielded 40 boxes of sweet corn weighing 40 pounds each - a total of 1,600 pounds that was distributed on Friday to Senior Center participants and to the food bank. "Tim has been very generous in donating plants and produce …
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Old Sawmill Farm
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The garden earned nearly 23,000 votes between March 6-August 6.
Coventry's own Community Garden will now be able to provide even more fresh produce to residents in need after winning a $4,000 grant on August 6. The garden, founded by resident Gail Tatangelo, was contacted on February 2 by Organic Magazine to let them know the garden was one of 15 across the country nominated for the grant. The grant program, funded by DeLoach Vineyards, will present checks totaling $20,000 to five community gardens that have a large impact on their communities. The funds can be used for anything from purchasing seeds and supplies. installing sheds and lighting, improving signage and more. Members of the garden created a video that was posted on deloachcommunitygardens.com, and enlisted friends, family and neighbors …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Despite the rainy and dreary morning, the Coventry Community Garden was still able to get its long-awaited shed delivered and constructed on Saturday morning.
"Although it was a VERY rainy morning, we got the shed built! Now we are a dignified garden that is here to stay!" read a message on the Coventry Community Garden's Facebook page on Saturday. "Thanks to the New England Grassroots Environment Fund and Helen and Richard Anderson of the Coventry Pines Golf Course!" Keep voting for the Coventry Community Garden here! You can vote once a day until August 6th. www.deloachcommunitygardens.com.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Volunteers will gather Saturday to transfer vegetable plants from the middle school greenhouse to the Flat River Rd. garden.
On Saturday, June 2 from 9 a.m. to noon, Gail Tatangelo and Bob Robillard, two faces of the Coventry Community Garden will be joined by volunteers to transplant 1,200 - 1,500 plants from the greenhouse at ASFMS to the garden at the Town Hall Annex on Flat River Rd. The vegetables produced will be distributed throughout Coventry to over 500 residents in need. Town Council members as well as Town Manager Tom Hoover will be present that morning, not only for the planting, but also to celebrate the 8' x 12" cedar shed that will be built on-site that same day - a resource that the garden has been in dire need of for several years. The shed is being funded by a recently-awarded grant of $2,5000 from the New England Grassroots Environment Fund, …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
If Coventry's garden is chosen, it will be one of five nationwide to receive a $4,000 grant.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
At Monday's Town Council meeting, Coventry resident Gail Tatangelo announced to the public that they will soon be able to vote for Coventry's Community Garden in a contest that could win the project a $4,000 grant. Tatangelo has been organizing and running the garden since she asked Council members four years ago to use a piece of town land to get started. "It was a dream of mine," she said of the garden that supplies food to local families in need. "It is the community coming together to help the community." The contest, run by Organic Magazine, has allowed Coventry's garden to be one of 15 across the country to be nominated for the grant. Funded by DeLoach Vineyards, it will present checks totaling $20,000 to five community gardens …
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Western Coventry School
4588 Flat River Rd, Coventry, RI
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Friday, February 10, 2012
If chosen, the Community Garden will receive $4,000 to help fund the program that feeds Coventry families in need.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Update: Click here to vote or navigate to www.deloachcommunitygardens.com. On February 2, Organic Magazine contacted the Coventry Community Garden to let them know the garden was one of 15 across the country nominated for a $4,000 grant. The grant program, funded by DeLoach Vineyards, will present checks totaling $20,000 to five community gardens that have a large impact on their communities. The funds can be used for anything from purchasing seeds and supplies. installing sheds and lighting, improving signage and more. Members of the Coventry Community Garden are currently filming a video that will be posted soon to be voted for by members of the community. The voting period will extend over five months beginning March 6 until August 6. …
Kim Paiva
4:13 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Yay!! All our voting and nagging others to vote has paid off!! Congratulations COVENTRY!! more ›