This was written in the Summer of 03 - All gardens in Ahmeek and Mohawk are in need of donations and volunteers - please call Tammy at 337-0549 or Carol at 337-4706

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SEED PLANTING - click HERE

GARDEN MARKERS - click HERE

I've had many breakfasts and snacks this summer in Ahmeek's Gabriel Chopp Park and feasted on the most awesome peas, beans, peppers, lettuce and ate an ear of uncooked sweet corn.  All veggies were fresh picked by me.  I brushed the dirt off a couple, but didn't have to be concerned about washing them as this is an organic garden - no pesticides...  In the mornings, when I was finished with my coffee, my stroll and had my fill of fresh veggies I would leave the garden and stop at the Ramblin' Rose Arts Center in nearby Mohawk to leave a donation for my feast. Had it been a little later in the day I could have walked across the street to Hart's Corner Store and left a donation there - and maybe even found some more veggies in their produce department.  The Harts and the Mohawk Superette are letting us place freshly picked veggies, making them available to the community (and visitors). 

We invite you to do the same.  Come see the garden, planted by seed and donated plants.  Youth and adults have been busy since early spring.  They've tilled the ground.  They've planted seeds  in the Keweenaw Krayons Greenhouse located behind "The House that is Green" at the Ramblin' Rose Arts Center in Mohawk.  They've picked off thousands of  bugs and now they are enjoying the "fruits/veggies" of their labor.

The garden is only one of many projects undertaken this summer as a result of being awarded the Community pARTners Project Implementation Awards

We've painted a mural on the Kermit's Keweenaw Kids bus, we've made clay garden markers, birdhouses and stepping stones.  We've painted pots by the dozen...  and on Tuesday we'll be working in both Mohawk and Ahmeek.  We'll be building two raised beds, creating a beaver habitat and beaver out of "cob" and painting a bear mural on the "old barbershop/new community building" in Mohawk. You are invited to join us in any of these projects.  The Beaver Sculpture will feature Artist-in-Residence, Patti Pawlicki assisted by Garden Artist, Michael Powers and will take place (weather permitting) for the next ten days, beginning Tuesday, Aug 26  from 4 to 8 p.m.  Wear old clothes as cobbing is messy!!!  Audrey Chamberlain will be at the "Old Barbershop/New Community Building" in Mohawk from noon to 6 p.m., beginning Tuesday, Aug 26.  You are welcome to join in on the fun and/or watch. 

Tammy Effinger of Ahmeek has been named Garden Director...   please check back often for updates from her and information regarding the award to put sculptures and gardens in Ahmeek and Mohawk Parks and surrounding areas.  When you are cleaning out your garages and basements please keep us in mind for rakes, hoes, shovels, wheelbarrows, etc... and when you are thinning your garden please consider bringing us your extra perennials.

We thank :
Johnny's Selected Seeds  Donation of more than $450 worth of seeds. 
 Mark Jindrich  Idea and work of writing to Johnny's asking for the donation - Greenhouse building and maintaining
 Keweenaw County Commissioner, Eagle Harbor resident, Don Keith Donating 100 trees.
Mohawk Sand and Gravel Truck load of top soil.
DeMarios Logging - $20 Donation.
Ace Hardware of Calumet - Discounts on materials.

Ahmeek Garden Volunteer Tree & Bush Planters

and the list keeps going and growing... much like the gardens

Suzy Hoppe,  Green House assistance
Julia Simila,   Donation of tomato plants
Gail & Jack Kivela,   Picking up trees from conservation district.
Houghton/Keweenaw Conservation District - Seed Donations
Mike Maninga,  Donation of Water Tank
Carol Kreher, 4-H, Ideas, Help.
Keweenaw Krayons Kids - Greenhouse help
Jon Simula - Donated cedar boards
Randy & Cricket Eckloff - Donated Manure
Martine & Patti Pawlicki- Design Input
Gail Kivela - Seed Sorting
Kristie Kontur - Garden hose and nozzle; handicap accessible garden research
Mark Jindrich - Greenhouse/ seed order help
County Workers - Wood Poles ( crafts for kids)
Susan Hallwachs - Guidance & support
Bonita Blackburn- Garden Ideas / fund raising ideas
Audrey Chamberlain - House plants, sale/fundraiser
Gloria Hatch - Garden design hints, donated plants
Len Novak, Loan of Heater for Greenhouse
Mark Effinger, Heavy Equipment Operator
Ahmeek Village, Backhoe
Bob Stubenrauch, Tree placement and garden design assistance
David Sundberg, tilling the garden. Sorry it broke your tiller in the process. :-(
Blair of Strandwood Flooring in Dollar Bay, semi load of wood chips.
Tolksdorf, cedar posts.
 "Tom & Friends",  straw.
Louie's Super Value Foods - Ketchup and Mustard for FISH BOIL
Vollworth - Discount on meat for fish boil
Fallon's Subs - bags of Ice
Coca-Cola/Hancock Bottling Co.- pop machine for use with cups
 

Ahmeek Village Council & Mohawk Park Committee
Help, advice, & support!!!

Community pARTners
Project Implementation Awards Announced
MACAA is pleased to announced the awarding of 12 grants totaling $228,135 for the Community pARTners: Artists-in-Residence program. For a full listing of awardees, please click here.