Children's Day Care Program Schedule for 2019

We invite your day care classes for ages 4-7 to a FREE forty minute program on the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.

    

 
A Butterfly Garden Program Presented by Norchester Garden Club at Matzke Park Butterfly Garden

Each class lasts 45 minutes: A story in the Gazebo by Catherine the Caterpillar; a guided walk in the garden to identify plants and perhaps find a feeding caterpillar; a short craft. 21 children per time slot. Two teachers must accompany each group of seven children. 

Reservations required by Sept 16, 2019 noon.

Reserve by email: jyfitzgerald@comcast.net  

Phone: 281-469-3173

Please identify yourself when phoning so I do not think it is a robo call

         

Oct 1,Tuesday         9:00, 10:00, 11:00

Oct 9, Wednesday   9:00, 10:00, 11:00

Oct 11, Friday         9:00, 10:00, 11:00

Oct 18, Friday         9:00, 10:00, 11:00

Oct  28,Monday               9:00, 10:00,  11:00

Oct  29,Tuesday       9:00, 10:00,  11:00

See the garden at  www.matzkebutterflygarden.blogspot.com/

After you have made a reservation I will send you a required release form to be returned to me with the names of the teachers who will be bringing the children. There will be no rain date.

Matzke Park Entrance is on Jones Road, opposite McDonalds. The garden is beyond the building. There is a large playground structure near the garden. There are benches and picnic tables near the garden as well as rest rooms in the building.  

Direct voluntary contributions to support this activity may be made to:

Norchester Garden Club Children’s Butterfly Project, 10502 Brentway Dr. Houston, TX 77070

This is a 501(c) organization and is tax deductible.  You will receive an acknowledgment.

Garden in July

The garden is looking very attractive, given the heat of July.  Thanks to Ms Joan and the other ladies who provide the attention, improvements, and oversight.  The new bricks highlight major donors and contributors to the garden's development over the past decade.

Summer Greetings

This weekend the troops and I went to 3 farmers markets.  One had some impressive garden fields, plowed right and nice and green. Reminded me of my grandpa Peter's vegetable garden in Omaha, NB. His was mostly an asparagus farm, asparagus as big as your middle finger just delicious. He took his vegetables to a very famous farmers market in Omaha.  As a kid I use to have to pick up the bundles and take them to the end of the row. 

Have you seen the asparagus in our Houston stores! Skinny as a stick, flavorless and half is hard as a rock. 

Anyway, I digress to share with you what I found at the HEB at the Vintage.  

 Wonderful red watermelon from Dilorio Farms in Hempstead. Yes as good as it looks.

Cherries large, plump and not expensive.  Not like the early season ones.

Send me an email if you have found any good vegetable finds and I will post.