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Current Events at Olive Avenue Market
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Monday Music Night
Olive Avenue Market hosts local musical artists on Monday nights from 7 to 9 pm. Come on in and enjoy a free concert at an intimate venue featuring local talent!
Music Monday Night Calendar
July 5th: Craftsmen of Gods Acoustic
July 12th: Steven Cardoza Chris Daub
July 19th: Cameron Ruffin
July 26th: Albeit Jazz Quartet
August 2nd: Chris Daub Ivan Co'lon
August 9th: Ten Speed
Inquire with OAM if you'd like us to showcase your talent!
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In The Garden
Olive Avenue Market is excited to announce our newest venture into gardening! OAM was selected as a recipient of the 2008/2009 Redlands Aromatherapy Foundation (RAF) "Creating a Sense of Place" demonstrative garden outreach.
RAF is a 501(c)3 educational organization that has been working to connect our community with healing gardens, restorative landscapes, and other green spaces in order to facilitate health and well-being while protecting, preserving and honoring our environment since 2000. Over the years, they have assisted with the creation or renovation of several gardens within our community including a native and multisensory Peace Garden on the campus of Clement Middle School, the addition of a fragrant plant border renovation within the LaFourcade Community Garden at the University of Redlands and a meditation Garden on the grounds of the Spiritual Treatment Center here in Redlands.
In addition to demonstrative gerden spaces, the Foundation has presented numerous educational outreaches designed to empower the community to personally connect with nature as a tool to improve individual well-being. Whether it is using a garden space for exercise, a place to take in fresh air and sunlight, a place to connect with loved ones, a place to grow fresh healthy foods or a place to sit and let the mind become still - a garden is a place where one can feel a little more present, a little more balanced.
For Olive Avenue Market, being selected as the recipient of RAF's demonstrative garden renovation means that our side yard garden is getting a make-over! Creating a "Sense of Place" garden means that the theme we embrace on the inside of our market will extend now clearly to the outside. Our "Sense of Place" garden will feature a sensory rich, California landscape garden space designed to educate minds while soothing the senses. It is our hope to inspire further eco-friendly changes in our community in ways that are pleasing, inviting and restorative to us and the environment.
OAM's "Sense of Place" garden will showcase the use of native, water-wise, edible, aromatic & sensory plants in the home like landscape; the ecology of landscaping with natives and CA friendly plants, general care and maintenance of such a garden space. Our goal also is to use this garden space to hold both ongoing demonstrative educations in support of ecologically sound landscaping while offering the use of this space as a restorative tool for human well-being. We invite you to "sit a spell" in our garden, to enjoy the multisensory experience of touch, aroma & restorative properties that our garden strives to offer.
January 16th
After months in the planning stages, OAM's reached its kickoff date to begin our garden renovation. Carrie-Anne Parker, Founder of RAF and grower of Rolling Hills Herbs and Annuals offered her beautifully cultivated plants, expert planting advice, landscape design, kind words and gentle spirit! Wendy McIntyre, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Redlands shared landscape and planting expertise alongside salvageable removal and replanting techniques and student volunteers! Landscape Architect Lawrence Hall lent his hand to skillful and beautifully aesthetic pruning of our Ornamental Plum tree while sharing tidbits of landscaping wisdom. All three of these experts, UofR Student volunteers, OAM staff, & project family members along with several customers dug in and began the removal of various trees and shrubs. Each plant removed was adopted (or is waiting to be adopted) out into the community. Our goal: to make room for the natives, water-wise, aromatics and edibles! It was all about hard labor, mud and comaraderie. A day well spent in such a productive venture!
January 30th
With a host of volunteers again, we began the preparation and planting stages of our garden. It was a perfect day for garden work; great weather and so many cheery, altruistic helpers; Redlands offers the best! Preparation meant removing LOTS of grass; labor-intensive work is what that was! It also included the preparation and laying down of multiple layers of cardboard to eliminate further growth of grass while providing eventual mulch. We are SO thankful for our volunteers! Gardening together with lots of help further allowed many opportunities to chat; a great many meaningful conversations occurred. In the end we planted three olive trees (a symbolic trio), native Manzanita shrubs, CA iris, grasses, penstemon, sages and coral bells, (thank you, IERCD for your generous donation of native plant materials). Rosemary and lavenders, grown by Redlands own Rolling Hills Herbs and Annuals were incorporates into the garden - with more edibles and herbs to come! Shades of greens, grays and silvers will be accented with the white berries of manzanita, purple blossoms of iris, red blooms of penstemon and rich coral of coral bells. This is our beginning!
February 20th
Our project continues... Join us on this Saturday to learn about raised bed & square-foot gardening and mulch! Call or come in to OAM to sign up to be a volunteer and learn these techniques by hands-on involvement. Save this date!
In the meantime, stop in at OAM and pick up an educational cd generously donated to the Foundation by the kind folks of Metropolitan Water District. All proceeds collected in exchange for the disk will be put toward irrigation, mulch and other supplies needed to continue with this garden renovation!
Be apart of the community you envision! Financial donations toward the garden project and subsequent onsite educational outreaches are welcome. Contact RAF today to learn more about becoming a contributing partner: administrator@ RafGardens.org
As always, you can call our Market for ongoing Gardening Calendar dates and to sign up to be a Volunteer!