Rosa in the Parsley Patch

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Rosa loves parsley. It tastes so green and sweet.

Parsley is widely used as a companion plant in gardens. Like many other members of the carrot family (umbellifers), it attracts predatory insects, including wasps and predatory flies to gardens, which then tend to protect plants nearby. For example, they are especially useful for protecting tomato plants as the wasps that kill tomato hornworms also eat nectar from parsley.  It offers protection even in its first year as the strong scent of the parsley leaves appear to mingle with the tomato scent and confuses the tomato moth. Parsley is high in vitamins A, B, and C.

(From Wikipiedia)

COPS N' KIDS Reading Room

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Recently, Rosa was able to visit with Judie Dickerson from the Cops N' Kids Reading Room in Easton. Ms. Dickerson came out to the Urban Farm and read garden stories to the kids from Spring Garden Day Care. Rosa had lots of fun visiting and enjoyed the stories. The kids enjoyed the stories too and they each were allowed to take a book home with them to keep!

The Cops N' Kids Reading Room is located at the Easton Area Community Center located at 901 Washington Street. Access to the Reading Room is around back on South 9th.

The Reading Room is open on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on First and Third Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to Noon

Bring your child to relax in a cozy comfortable setting, choose books to read and a book to own.

 

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Spring Garden Day Care at the Easton Urban Farm

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Spring Garden Day Care has a garden plot at the Easton Urban Farm and Community Garden. Twice a week during the summer students come with their teacher to tend their plot and learn about gardening. The kids have also been helping around the farm, weeding, composting, planting, and hoeing up the potatoes.  On Monday, Rosa visited the Urban Farm and made some new friends.

Rosa visits the Mercantile Home garden

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Rosa smelling the flowers at the Lynn Street garden down by the river where Ken Jones Jr. of Mercantile Home, makes it all happen with that special brand of Mecantile magic! Help Ron and Ken Jr. win a grant to expand their business visit https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/ and vote for Mercantile Home in Easton, PA

Ferry Street Apartments

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Last Summer Rosa visited the new raised beds built by an Eagle Scout for the residents at Ferry Street Apartments, West Ward Neighborhood Partnership helped with the cost of building the beds and supplied garden soil and plants. The families enjoyed fresh vegetables from their own garden. This year new families at Ferry Street Apartments have planted the beds for their gardens using plants raised by West Ward Community Gardeners. 
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