NORWAY — The Alan Day Community Garden is asking for help to light the garden by participating in a silent auction this weekend.
Light the Garden will feature music, food and a chance to win items ranging from an 18th-century Chippendale shelf to a vacation on Lake Thompson. It will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at the Alan Day Community Garden, 26 Whitman St. in Norway.
This is the third annual silent auction.
The garden group hopes to raise $5,000 to construct a pavilion for shelter during its free workshops and for gardeners to picnic, Katey Branch, one of the founders, said.
The event is open to the public. Tickets are $10 to $25 on a sliding scale to make the event affordable for everyone, Branch said.
“So it really means pay what you can,” she said. The ticket price covers gourmet food, one alcoholic drink and live music by the Garden Variety Band.
The auction items include a 3½-hour sail on Long Lake in Harrison, a two-day stay at a Thompson Lake cottage in Otisfield in September, three hand drumming lessons, a 60-minute massage therapy lesson, jewelry, a handmade afghan, ice cream cake, CDs by local musicians and the Chippendale shelf.
Online bidding at www.alandaygarden.wordpress.com/silentauction will be open until Friday, June 26. Bidding will continue in person at the Alan Day Community Garden during the Light the Garden night.
The Alan Day Garden’s mission is to educate and demonstrate growing food organically and sustainability by offering plots for families to raise their own food with the support of the community, Branch said.
The community garden concept was created in 2009 to honor the memory of local philanthropist and artist Alan Day. Day was active in the visual, performing and healing arts and in cooperatives, including the Fare Share Market in Norway.
His twin daughters, Emma and Ruby Day Branch, and their mother, Katey Branch, helped found the Alan Day Community Garden. The family said Day made it known that this largely abandoned, wet field and its barn would make a great community garden. He left the land to his daughters, who helped develop the community garden project.
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