We are preparing for Spring at Adaptive Gardens of the Low country!  We know it’s still a few weeks away, but with a welcome splash of warm weather over the last few days, we can’t help but be excited anyway!

Seeds are sprouting and our students are exercising their fine motor skills transplanting them to larger pots.  Our Vocational Work Crews are learning some landscaping skills by dividing bulbs and planting them around the activity center.  Pretty soon, not only will it feel like Spring, but it will begin to look like Spring!!

If you’re getting Spring Fever too, don’t worry, we’ve started your Spring garden for you! You can come by the Our Local Foods Farm Store and pick up your Spring lettuce sprouts or you can wait until April 24th! Whats going on April 24th, you ask? Not just one AGL plant sale, but TWO! That’s right, there will be two plant sales that AGL will be participating in on April 24th!

Dividing seedlings in preparation for transplanting into the garden
We have great community partners, and two of them have asked us to participate in their Spring Plant Sales. First is the Fam Jam at the Charleston Children’s Museum, downtown on April 24th, and second is Plantasia, with the Charleston Horticultural Society, also on April 24th!  So… on April 24th you have two Fabulous Family Fun events, and you can support Adaptive Gardens of the Low country while getting everything you need for your Spring vegetable garden! And we mean everything, even our very own Adaptive Gardens Organic Potting Soil Mix!  That’s right, the amazing soil mix we use on the farm will also be for sale! Look for it at the Our Local Foods Farm Store and Sweetgrass Hardware this Spring too!

We would love for you to come visit us! If you want to come tour or volunteer email me at catherine@adaptivegardens.org.  Also, if you or anyone you know is interested in Horticultural Therapy, I am teaching a class for the Charleston Horticultural Society on April 10th.  For more information contact Leslie Brady at http://www.charlestonhorticulturalsociety.org/ .

Transplanting seedlings into the garden
Cant wait to see you in the gardens!

Catherine McGuinn

Horticultural Therapist and Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country