22 May Windsor Park Community Garden FENCE-A-THON

From: antoinette marie

PLEASE POST FAR AND WIDE

Over the next three weeks, Windsor Park Community Garden will be collecting
recycled materials to fill in the frames of our fence. We are seeking
donations of materials (see list below).

Here is what the frames look like: They are about 5.5 feet wide by 3.5 feet
tall.
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Here is a frame that is partially filled in (with woven venetian blinds)
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And here is one that is completed but has not yet been installed

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Some ideas we have for “fill” are:
Coat hangers
CD’s
tin cans
bottle caps
curtain rods
venetian blinds
window shades
bicycle wheels
ply wood
fence pickets
chicken wire
welded wire
burglar bars
old gates
metal window frames
metal kitchen utensils and other small metal items that could be woven into
chicken wire

If you are able to donate any of these materials (or others we haven’t
thought of), please bring them by the garden or contact us and we will
arrange to pick them up. This is the excuse you’ve been waiting for to
clean out your shed, your spare room, your attic.

And on Saturday May 30 from 9:00 to 1:00, we will host a “FENCE-A-THON.”
Neighbors, artists, carpenters, architects, children — EVERYBODY will be
invited to bring your ideas and your creativity to fill in a panel of the
fence. We will provide nails, screws, staples, glue, wire, saws, drills,
paint and all the recycled materials we have gathered. (Oh yes, and
refreshments.) You can bring other things you think you might need. If you
have tools and/or hardware you are willing to bring, we can always use more
(glues, clamps, staple guns, crews, screw-eyes, wire cutters, etc.) Label
your tools.

Alternatively, if you would prefer to work at your own home or workshop, you
can take a frame home and bring it back to be installed on May 30.

We will award prizes for the most original and the most beautiful fence
panels as well as the most creative use of recycled materials.

The Windsor Park Community Garden is about a mile north of the Mueller
development, behind the Austin Mennonite Church at 5801 Westminster. Please
park in the parking lot across the street from the church. For more
information, contact Elizabeth at eak at grandecom.net or 636-4493