Childrens’ garden cleanup will happen Wednesday, September 24th.  Participants who care to harvest any of their produce should remove the material before the plastic is lifted.

General garden cleanup will be complete before the first weekend in October .  Stakes, large stones,  farm site junk finds, and other material dangerous to people and tillage equipment must be put in the junk pile;  unchopped plant material can go into the compost heap — both sites are in the southeast corner of the garden.   Harvey Donley will remind folks with materials remaining after Oct 1st.

Harvey indicates the current plots and some new ones  will be available in 2009, first choice for returning gardeners and later open to the community.   It is worth doing fall control on the perennial weeds.  Harvey plans to fertilize and till this fall.

The Farmers Market is starting to wind down for the year.  There may still be a couple of vendors selling over the next month.  Turn out of vendors and the community as been great for the 1st year. 

Ideas and places for an after school program continue to be explored and researched. 

Mural on Wards Store is up, take a look. 

Food Pantry is in need of a Food Drive.  Tenatively scheduled for Sunday October 12th will be “Horse Ride-Food Drive”, a food drive in Estelline combining the Estelline High School Honor Soceity, local food pantry and local Horse owners who will be giving rides not only to the works by any community members who would like a ride.  Watch for more info to come and support our local food pantry with any donations you can make. 

Outdoor movies are done for the year, but look for some indoor movies come winter time. 

Frisbee Golf course is moving ahead with High School students working on a design and additional fund raising for a course that will be in City Park for all to use. 

Discussion held on how to raise funding going forward to keep our great organization going forward for our community. 

Next meeting will be on October 21st at 6:30 at Trails Edge.  All are welcome to attend and participate.

The South Dakota Specialty Producers Association and the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service are sponsoring the event. It begins at 7 p.m. at the Brookings County Extension office, located at the Swiftel Center, 824 32nd Ave., Brookings.

The meeting will introduce producers and consumers to the “Buy Fresh Buy Local” campaign. It is a national program to increase both the awareness and purchase of locally produced food and specialty food products.

Food, food service, health care, food production, and rural economic development businesses and individuals are encouraged to attend the event.

 Call Patrick Garrity, (605) 660-1034, for information, or e-mail him at garrity@iw.net

Market as usual on Friday evening 4 to 7 pm at Bandstand Park.  Then activitites move to the ball park; concessions starts before dark and family entertainment (Shrek , animated ghoul  lives an adventursome life with lots of humor for all ages) on the movie screen at dark 9:30 pm.  Enjoy!

Sioux Falls Argus Leader has expressed interest in the Garden and Farmers’ Market and will have photographer and reporter at the sites.

Estelline Journal, our newspaper ‘flagship’ has published lots of great copy, some written and filmed by the children, and we look forward to more coverage there as well.  Thank you,  Archers and Marge too.