Vegetable demonstration and educational garden
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Garden Location:
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Shawnee Town Farmstead
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Garden Size:
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80' 0" x 90' 4"
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Garden Type:
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Community garden
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Garden Layout:
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Traditional layout - rows etc
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Sun or Shade:
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Sunny
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Garden Soil Type:
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Heavy / Clay soil
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Only heirloom, open polinated crops are cultivated due to the Shawnee Town 1929 Museum standards. Volunteers prepare, plant, and maintain the garden using it as a teaching tool for metro area grade school programs.
On site is a farmstead with outbuildings typical of the time period: the original restored farmhouse, market shed, livestock barn, chicken house and brooding shed with chickens, toolshed, garden shed, outhouse, automobile garage, working well, smokehouse, a gravel, country-like road with plantings of wildflowers and blackberries on either side, a vegetable garden and small orchard.
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Garden Plan
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Plant List
Planting Times
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