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Garden to Table

Hosted by Kankakee Wetlands Organic Gardens

Learn about healthy gardening best practices, recommended books, recipes, and how to volunteer with local gardener Judith Rubleske. Attendees will be given vegetables from the gardens to take home.

Kankakee Wetlands Organic Gardens - http://kwog.org

We are part of an inner city neighborhood that is about 1/3 mile from the headwaters of the Kankakee river which was created 16,000 years ago. Thus our soil developed over this period of time and is a type of glaciated, wetland soil, black, rich yet sandy. We do our best in following four basic soil health principles:

1. Minimize soil disturbance
2. Maximize soil cover
3. Living roots
4. Maximize diversity

These principles guide our soil regeneration efforts. The main crop on each lot is a winter storable vegetable as our small city lots are too small for growing enough of winter squash, dried beans, potatoes, root crops, etc. in our backyard gardens. Some gardening includes no-tilling, broadforking for aeration, cover cropping, shredded leaf and chipped wood mulching, rain harvesting, watering by hand, keeping roots in the ground vs. pulling out harvested plants, composting, seed saving/exchanging, inoculating with mycorrhiza and aerated compost tea. Want to know more, garden with us, take photos, donate or connect about purchasing produce…please contact:

Judith Rubleske
President and Lead Gardener
info@kwog.org
(574) 288-1386

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