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Mosaic Community Garden Wins Excellence In Planning And Design Montgomery Award

The Mosaic Community Garden, located in Pottstown Borough, received a 2013 Montgomery Award for creative vision, successful collaboration, strong community involvement, and positive neighborhood impact. This popular garden offers an attractive gathering place for residents to grow a variety of produce and learn about healthy living. To read the entire article and view the pictures, click here to open the PDF file: … Read more

Last Call Gardeners – Use It Or Lose It

Attention Gardeners, The garden is in its final days of clean up for this year. We will be preparing for the next growing season and have to get the garden prepped and ready to grow! PLEASE NOTE, it is the gardeners responsibility to clean out his/or her plot for the season. Please clean out your … Read more

MOSAIC Community Garden E-Letter – September‏

Hello Gardeners, The Produce and Information Stand was a great success in downtown Pottstown! Over 40 people stopped by to see the cart and purchase honey, produce, herbs and fruit that day! With each purchase, neighbors and other visitors new to the garden, received loads of information regarding the benefits of eating … Read more

Kids Learn And Have Fun At Mosaic Community Garden In Pottstown

We had a great time with the children from the Pottstown Athletic Club today. Kids who participate in the club’s Karate, CrossFit Kids and Jr. Guardian Angels programs got a lesson in worm composting, how to plant flowers, when to harvest tomatoes and spent time observing our honey bee family! They also created amazing artwork … Read more

Mosaic Community Garden Announces Beautification Contest Winners

How it all began: In the summer of 2012, Dick Heylmun, the owner of Pine Tree Hill Farm, contacted Mosaic Community Land Trust, after learning about their work in the Community garden on Chestnut Street. Mr Heylmun, an avid gardener himself, conceived of the idea to offer prize money to people living in the Beech … Read more

Mosaic Community Garden Considered Prize-Worthy

Your MOSAIC Community Garden has been chosen as a finalist for the 2013 Montgomery County awards! Please help us ‘bring home the gold’ by taking extra time to tend to the gardens! The judges plan to take a tour of our wonderful garden this week and make their final decision. Let’s all do our part to … Read more

Mosaic Second Community Garden Is In The Works!

Demolition at 615 Chestnut Street is a wrap! We are set to begin the development of the MOSAIC’s second community garden! If you happen to be in the area, stop by to see what true PROGRESS looks like! A fresh set of garden plots will be available for fall planting. For this season only, the … Read more

Adult Gardening Workshop This Evening!‏

The Adult Gardening Series invites you to participate in another exciting workshop: When: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (rain date Thursday, July 18, 2013) What: Adult Workshop 2 – Preserving Your Harvest Our lovely garden assistant (Tina) will present our second workshop titled Preserving Your Harvest. She will also provide instruction on … Read more

Garden Work and Play Day – Sunday, July 14, 3:00-6:00 PM‏

Well, we are so sorry the Garden Work and Play Day was canceled today due to rain that never really showed up! 🙁 But have NO fear, tomorrow will soon be here and we are set to hang out in the garden for a Sunday afternoon Work and Play Day! Please join us as there is … Read more

Saturday Work and Play Day at MOSAIC Community Gardens…

A message from Laura Washington, Gardens Manager: Happy Thursday! Reminder, our next Garden Work & Play Day is this Saturday from 9 am to 12 noon. We will continue to tidy up the garden grounds, review plot assignments, provide planting ideas and hand out seeds and seedlings. We will have experienced gardeners on deck … Read more