CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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People Movements A Grange movement has started and meets once a month at the Museum of the Cape Fear. It is a fraternal organiza- tion for North American farmers and hobbyists that encour- ages farm families and urban gardeners to band together for their common economic and political well-being. Free classes and discussions range from organic gardening to preserv- ing foods. The informal meetings encourage networking and sharing resources. One gardener provided a horse owner with a container and received ten gallons of horse manure for his garden. A bee keeper has placed a hive in an area where several mem- bers garden to help pollinate the gardens. Lake Rim Park will host a Family Night Out event on June 8, the last day of the public school year, to encourage use of its park facilities. The next morn- ing volunteers, including a Boy Scout troop, will clean sor monthly classes about gardening techniques including re- cently, "A Square Foot Gardening" where home owners and interested people with 20 feet by 20 feet or 4 feet by 4 feet plots can maximize the yield, till the soil and produce fresh vegetables year round. The class demonstrated what can be done with simple tools and common supplies in front of the Turlington Schools, an alternative middle and high school in Raeford. around the lake as kayakers, canoeists, and small electrical craſt operators carry out tires, gym shoes, and bait boxes. Lake Rim Park rangers also regularly teach classes on water safety and kayaking and sponsor trips to white water rapids, the Fort Fisher area, the Neuse and the Black Rivers. Dirty Hands, Clean Hearts The North Carolina State University and A&T State Uni- versity Cooperative Extension Services at Hoke County spon- "Pots for Seventy First High School Horticulture Program." A Master Gardener collects used plastic and clay pots to be re- used in the horticulture program. The school has also received landscape rocks, bricks, chicken manure and rain barrels as donations. Cumberland County has a new group of intern Master Gardeners who learn each week about horticulture and how to address the needs of sandy soil and problems ranging from drainage, to weeds where you don't want them. The Master Gardeners Volunteers in North Caro- lina operate a free hotline in many counties, in Fay- etteville 910.321.6882 they are open from 9 a.m. — 12 p.m. and 1 — 4 p.m., Mon- day through Friday, except holidays. One example is the Hoke and Cumberland Counties Cooperative Extension Services offer rain barrels and teach classes on how to build and place them at your business, home or farm. All North Carolina counties have Extension Service Agents who provide 58 | May/June • 2012