Freetown-Port Rico Coterie Meeting Today 5:30 P.M.

The Freetown - Port Rico Coterie will meet on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. in the 2nd floor meeting room of the Lafayette Public Library's main branch.

This monthly meeting is free and open to the public.

Y-49: Grassroots Meeting December 3

There will be a free community discussion regarding the upcoming I-49 corridor tomorrow evening at the Lafayette Public Library's main branch tomorrow at 6 p.m.

This event is being put on by the Acadian Group of the Sierra Club.

Freetown residents are encouraged to attend. This project will impact our neighborhood tremendously. Be part of the conversation!

Freetown House Plaque Workshop

Freetown business Pottery Alley is collaborating with the Freetown-Port Rico Coterie to offer neighborhood residents the chance to make a ceramic house plaque.

Workshops will be offered on December 6 and December 12. There is a $6 registration fee to participate.

Details available on the Coterie's Facebook event.

Consider Native Plants For Landscaping

"Red maple, red buckeye, fringe tree, mayhaw, possumhaw holly and Southern wax myrtle" are among the landscaping options recommended by Louisiana Growers owner Rick Webb in this short article that ran in the New Orleans Advocate.

Community Thanksgiving Meal Sunday 11/15/15

Our downtown neighbors at First United Methodist are hosting a free Thanksgiving Community Meal this Sunday.

The event will take place from 3-5 p.m. in the church parking, located at the corner of Johnston & Main Streets.

This event is free and open to the public. Contributions of food are welcome, but not required.

Cultivating Gratitude Part 1: Thank You Bluesberry Festival

Many thanks to Emily Neustrom and the Bluesberry Festival for kindly donating funds to cover the Freetown Community Garden's insurance for the upcoming year.

Keep up to date with the 2015 Bluesberry Festival on Facebook.

Victory Garden in LaPlace Neighborhood

Lafayette's LaPlace neighborhood recently launched Victory Garden. Photos and updates on the TownFolk Facebook page and the LaPlace Coterie Facebook page. It is wonderful to see community gardening spreading throughout our city!

Freetown Neighborhood Cleanup 11/8/15

Freetown resident Tyler Davis has organized a volunteer cleanup day for our neighborhood.

The event is scheduled for Sunday, November 8, starting at 2 p.m.  Meet at the Blue Moon Saloon to get supplies and instructions. (Feel free to bring your own gloves and garbage bags if you have them - it will help the donated supplies go farther.)

Check out the Freetown Neighborhood Cleanup event on Facebook for details.

The Big Event - UL African Student Association

A HUGE thank you to the organizers of the Big Event and the wonderful volunteers from the UL African Student Association who came out to work with us on Saturday!

We had a fantastic crew who helped us with several projects: emptying the compost bins, adding the finished fertilizer to garden beds, and, of course, weeding!

Check out the great images in the ASO's photo album on Facebook - we had a blast, and got a lot of work done. We even signed up some new member gardeners! :-)

Permaculture Talk This Saturday 10/17/15

Brock Barker will conduct a free public talk on Permaculture at the Ira Nelson Horticulture Center this Saturday at 10 a.m. Brock helped start the Freetown Community Garden in 2014, providing advice and helping to dig our garden beds. He's awesome! :-) This talk is sponsored by the Lafayette Parish Master Gardener Association. Bring a lawn chair (and a sun hat!). More information is available on the main page of the LPMGA site: http://www.lpmga.org/ The Ira Nelson Horticulture Center is located at 2206 Johnston St. in Lafayette. The talk will take place at the Demonstration Gardens behind the Center.

Free Talk This Evening: "Slow Gardening - Cajun Style"

The Lafayette Parish Master Gardener Association is hosting a free public meeting at 6 p.m. this evening at the main branch of the Lafayette Public Library Downtown. Author and radio host Felder Rushing will speak on the topic “Slow Gardening - Cajun Style”. For more information, please visit the Lafayette Parish Master Gardener Association site: http://www.lpmga.org/http://www.lpmga.org/

Updated Garden Plot Layout Map Coming Soon

We've been working off a hand-drawn garden plan since May 2014, but we're going electronic this week. A new version of the layout with plot numbers is being created, and we'll make that publicly available as soon as it's ready. (Plot assignments will not be public.)

Garden Meeting Saturday, September 26, 4 P.M.

We will be having a gardener's meeting at the Freetown Community Garden on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The first-year coordinators are ending their terms and we want to introduce our new coordinators and discuss plans for the coming year.