Gardens Founded in 2001 - Home in 2002

Echinacea - Photo by Laura Davis

The garden began in 2001 with the help of Norm Erickson, a Northland Hospice volunteer, at the corner of Switzer Canyon Drive and Turquoise. At that time the home had not been completed but a beautiful sign was placed on the corner. Norm continued to work on the beds on the east side of the sidewalk along Switzer Canyon Drive and in front of the home, until 2008. The rest of the gardens were developed by a core of Coconino County Master Gardeners initially led by Laura Davis and since 2007 by Loni Shapiro.

The garden crew is active from April-October and sometimes in November weather permitting. Work happens weekly throughout the garden season on Monday and Thursday mornings from 8:00 am-12:00 pm. It also is scheduled for one Saturday a month from April through October. Cancellations due to weather will be posted by 6:00 am of the workday on this blog. You must attend a spring orientation to the garden and Northland Hospice & Palliative Care in order to work. A summary of the work that has been done is included on the blog. Look for weekly postings on this blog during the garden season.
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Volunteering in the Garden

2015 Calendar

April 13, 11:30-1:30 Lunch and orientation for new volunteers at hospice and TB testing for all

April 16, 9:15-10 TB tests read and 10:00 garden orientation. First Thursday workday 9-12

April 20, First Monday workday 9-12

May 2, Saturday workday 9-12

If you are interested in volunteering, please email CrysWells@gmail.com.

Please note: TB testing is required annually for all garden volunteers.

If you have current TB results that were done by a physician or at a hospital, these may be submitted to Northland Hospice.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, please contact the volunteer coordinator Kathy Simmons (ksimmons@northlandhospice.org) to schedule a time for testing and orientation.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Thank You to the Flagstaff Leadership Program from the Daily Sun 5/1

The volunteer gardeners of the Olivia White Hospice Home would like to thank the Flagstaff Leadership Program for getting the 2011 season off to a good start. The first thing they did for us was at the 1st Friday Art Walk, raising more than $1100. We were able to purchase a new larger shed, 2 wheelbarrows, and a new composter, and still have funds available for other needs during the season. They have provided us with resources for a sandstone sign for the new Michael Moore Native Medicinal Garden and manure to feed our beds this season. On Saturday a large crew (18) came and helped us get the medicinal garden started and the rest of the garden up and running. It was a beautiful day and after they left many residents came out and were able to enjoy the garden because of their work. Some of the work accomplished included: a sandstone pathway, removing large shrubs, general clean-up (trash and pine needles), putting together a composter and two arbors, clean-up of the sun porch, staining a redwood glider and sanding/sealing our 2 raised beds, organizing all the compost neglected over the winter, and gathering some rocks for the new garden to honor our longtime therapy dog “Zane”. It would have taken us weeks to accomplish all they were able to do. If these are Flagstaff’s future leaders we are in good hands. Maybe we should send them to Washington. Many of our gardeners and those who help us would like to think that there is “Grace from the Garden; changing the world one garden at a time”, a book title that is so appropriate to what happens in the gardens at Olivia White Hospice Home.

Loni Shapiro
Volunteer Coordinator
Olivia White Hospice Home Garden

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