Events

2016                             

HAPPY 116th BIRTHDAY!!

JOIN THE REEVESLAND LEARNING CENTER

TO REMEMBER NELSON REEVES 

CELEBRATE HIS 116th BIRTHDAY

and
HIS INSPIRING LEGACY OF GROWING FOOD, KNOWLEDGE & COMMUNITY! 


SUNDAY, AUGUST 28th 

3:00 TO 4:30 PM
at the
***REEVESLAND FARMHOUSE***

CHILDREN AND ADULTS welcome

MUSIC BY “MALARKY”

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WE WILL SHARE STORIES ABOUT NELSON REEVES & REEVESLAND, SING "THE BALLAD OF NELSON REEVES," ENJOY HIS FAVORITE TOMATO SANDWICHES, BIRTHDAY CUPCAKES AND LEMONADE, AND KICK OFF THE FALL GROWING SEASON IN THE REEVESLAND LEARNING GARDEN. 

 

FREE ORGANIC SEEDS FOR FALL LAWNS 2 LETTUCE 4 LUNCH PLANTING

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***REEVESLAND, 400 N. MANCHESTER ST.

NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO 
BLUEMONT PARK***

 

 

 

2015                              

September:  Career Center students learn about composting with assistance from Reevesland Learning Center's Joan Horwitt 

        

 

Green Scene highlights a unique composting imitative at the Arlington Career Center. Using scraps of food from the culinary arts program, Program for Employment Preparedness (PEP) students are creating compost that they will use to fertilize their greenhouse gardens. Carpentry and Sustainable Tech students built the composting bins.

http://www.apsva.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=31765

 

 

March 21 & 22:  Free organic seeds are ready to pick up!

 

The free organic lettuce seeds--twelve varieties!--have arrived for Ashlawn's  LAWNS 2 LETTUCE 4 LUNCH spring planting. 

 

As we did in the fall, we want Ashlawn neighbors and friends to grow enough lettuce in their yards and gardens to serve a big, celebratory Fiesta Salad at lunch for more than 600 Ashlawn students, teachers and staff in early June, plus share some of our harvest with the Arlington Food Assistance Center. More than 150 neighbors, plus Ashlawn students, teachers and principals, signed up last fall.  We would like everybody to plant their lettuces no later than April 6th.

 

The main goals of LAWNS 2 LETTUCE 4 LUNCH are to help Ashlawn students learn about growing and eating healthy foods; to develop new collaborative relationships between the school and its neighbors; and to foster community-building relationships within our neighborhoods.

Please let me know if you will be picking up your organic lettuce seeds on either March 21 or 22--or, let me know if neither date is convenient and we'll make other arrangements. Thanks--Joan Horwitt (703-528-2646); shorwitt@aol.com

 

 

                                                                    Potato Planting March 21, 2015 with Cub Scout Pack 126, Den #4 led by                                                                                                                              neighbor, James McMullin. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 24:  Reeves farmhouse and Arlington County Budget Hearing

 

We're asking all friends of Reevesland to come to the County's budget hearing on March 24th, 6:45 PM, room 307, to show community support for the renovation of the Reevesland farmhouse. The County-owned farmhouse has been boarded up and vacant for 14 years.  But once renovated, it can be big asset as the Reevesland Learning Center where Arlington children and adults can learn about growing and preparing healthy food. 

 

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