Upcoming Events

The Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans (PSARA) comes to the Greenwood Senior Center!

In an effort to continue expanding civic engagement at the Greenwood Senior Center, PSARA, a group dedicated to upholding justice and civil rights for seniors and all Americans, will begin holding a monthly discussion group at the senior center. PSARA is a chapter of the national Alliance for Retired Americans, working toward progressive change in the areas of health care, social security, housing, transportation, immigration, and many more. To learn more about PSARA's work, check out their website: www.psara.org.

The first meeting is this Thursday, June 10, from 1-2pm at the Greenwood Senior Center. All meetings are facilitated by Bette Reed, Community Vice President of PSARA.

Join us!

Monthly SAGE meetings begin.

On Tuesday, June 15th, at 2pm, SAGE will have its first monthly meeting to begin discussing SAGE’s transition into a more sustainable model (see post below). We’ll talk about our collaboration with PSARA and start planning for the fall. Please join us if you can!



As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Emily at the Greenwood Senior Center (206-297-0875/emily@greenwoodseniorcenter.org). Thanks!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

SAGE Garden in Bloom

Hello everyone! I do apologize for the extreme lack of blogging these last few months. This is really the first time in my life that I’ve tried to do it, and I realize I that I’m not great at it. BUT, I am trying to make more of a commitment to doing it, so that those of you who cannot make all the SAGE events have a convenient place to go to find out what’s been going on.

Our biggest news right now is the garden! We planted some salad greens, mustard, radishes, beets, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, and some other veggies a few weeks ago and are just seeing some green sprouts popping up. The harvest from the garden will go the senior center kitchen and be used in our daily lunches, while extras will be available at our weekly “food bank.”

We will start workdays fairly soon, once the garden is ready to harvest, and will also do some summer planting. If you would like to help out sometime, shoot me and email or give me a call and I’ll make sure to contact you about happenings at the garden.

In the meantime, head over to the senior center on a sunny day and take a few quiet minutes to enjoy the garden, located on the east side of the senior center, next door.

1 comment:

Lorraine Pozzi said...

This is great! I have been inspired by some Queen Anne gardeners who are sharing seeds and know-how as they get serious about growing good food.

They were appalled recently to find that it was not always possible to identify genetically modified seeds. It really is time we called Big Ag on the carpet.