From jrochon at uwaterloo.ca  Wed Oct  1 09:33:15 2008
From: jrochon at uwaterloo.ca (J. Rochon)
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:33:15 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Profit motive
Message-ID: <48E37C1B.2030600@uwaterloo.ca>

Gardeners,
                 I did not get anything for the market this morning. We 
have about enough produce for two meager offerings, or one good 
end-of-season display. I opted for the latter. I hope to offer a few 
leeks, some hot peppers, and a couple of squash. Also, the RvB Index* 
suggested that I should wait for next week before taking produce to market.

              Would anyone be able to make up a small, colorful sign for 
our produce? I'd do it myself, but my graphic design is notoriously bad. 




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availability of (B)eer.




From m.rosamond at gmail.com  Wed Oct  1 15:55:30 2008
From: m.rosamond at gmail.com (Madeline Rosamond)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:55:30 -0400
Subject: [Garden] green waterloo directory
In-Reply-To: <213f6dd0809302015i59b65237hda4c124bc8ee135@mail.gmail.com>
References: <213f6dd0809302015i59b65237hda4c124bc8ee135@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3eedf3f50810011255m19877172g880bf0df608292de@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Mike:
How's Seattle?
You could add the Grand Valley Trails Association to your site (if we
assume a link between hiking and environment, I guess)
http://www.gvta.on.ca/
Cheers,
Maddy

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Michael Fagan <mfagan at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey all. I don't think I'm on the garden list anymore
>
> anyhow, I finally got around to putting up my little green waterloo
> directory http://uwhub.ca/green/ . send suggestions :-)
>
> Michael
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From JKlomfass at gmx.de  Thu Oct  2 22:26:55 2008
From: JKlomfass at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Julia_Klomfa=DF=22?=)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:26:55 +0200
Subject: [Garden] fnb
In-Reply-To: <20080918134828.14265gmx1@mx013.gmx.net>
References: <20080918134828.14265gmx1@mx013.gmx.net>
Message-ID: <20081003022655.40150@gmx.net>

so once again me with the same topic.
until now there were only positive responses to the question whether we want to give donations to food not bombs.
thus i will look again tomorrow how much is still there and maybe bring some things to food not bombs.
please if anybody is not ok with that, what i could understand  since there might be not so much left anymore, let me know.

btw. soup is served between 1.30 and 3 pm every saturday in front of kitchener city hall, just drop by and have a taste.

see you

julia

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:48:16 -0400
> Von: "Candace Wormsbecker" <candace at owr.ca>
> An: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Betreff: [Garden] FW: phone message

> Jason,
> 
> I met up with the lady below at the volunteer fair at UW on Tuesday.  She
> serves with Food Not Bombs and is on campus Fridays. I thought since you
> were very interested in donating food to charity you might be interested
> doing a harvest on Friday and passing it along to Patti to take to their
> serving on Saturday morning.  Maybe others would be interested in helping
> with this??
> 
> I was thinking some of the leeks, tomatoes, herbs, and maybe a few peppers
> and squash would be very useful for them.  
> 
> Candace
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> What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered (Ralph
> Waldo Emerson).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Berkeley [mailto:mike at owr.ca] 
> Sent: September-18-08 9:34 AM
> To: 'Candace Wormsbecker'
> Subject: phone message
> 
> Patty Moses called (519-208-1664). She said she met you at the volunteer
> fair. She called and stated that positive feedback has been received from
> "Food not bombs". They are willing to take any donations from the harvest.
> 
> Mike Berkeley
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From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  Tue Oct  7 02:06:20 2008
From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:06:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Garden] Anti-local food talk: Oct 22
Message-ID: <287662.93723.qm@web57613.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

CIGI is putting on an interesting talk on October 22 at 7pm entitled
"Homegrown or Flown-In: Is Local Food Always Best?". I figure some of
you might be interested in attending. 

http://www.cigionline.org/cigi/.calendar?event={7aa48dee-2605-42ea-809d-d2d9b1b35eb8}

Here is the summary:

===========

"We all agree, don't we?  Eating local food is best.  We should cut
out buying all that fruit and vegetables flown across the world to our
tables.

Except well, don't we also think that we should help Africa with
"trade not aid"?  Spot the contradiction?  Fred Pearce went in search
of the people who grew green beans flown to his home town from Kenya
in East Africa. And he came back convinced that, sometimes, we should
be buying the imported stuff. That kind of talk doesn't make Fred a
lot of friends among his fellow-greens. But that's the strength of his
new book: Confessions of an Eco  Sinner. He travelled the world to
find out where his stuff came from and isn't afraid to take on the
sacred cows of the green movement. This is ethical shopping for
grown-ups."


===========

By the end of this talk I expect to be fully convinced, ashamed and
despondant.  Maybe you can be too. 

- Paul



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From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  Tue Oct  7 03:06:47 2008
From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:06:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Garden] Anti-local food talk: Oct 22
Message-ID: <319098.59913.qm@web57608.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

CIGI is putting on an interesting talk on October 22 at 7pm entitled
"Homegrown or Flown-In: Is Local Food Always Best?". I figure some of
you might be interested in attending. 

http://www.cigionline.org/cigi/.calendar?event={7aa48dee-2605-42ea-809d-d2d9b1b35eb8}

Here is the summary:

===========

"We all agree, don't we?  Eating local food is best.  We should cut
out buying all that fruit and vegetables flown across the world to our
tables.

Except well, don't we also think that we should help Africa with
"trade not aid"?  Spot the contradiction?  Fred Pearce went in search
of the people who grew green beans flown to his home town from Kenya
in East Africa. And he came back convinced that, sometimes, we should
be buying the imported stuff. That kind of talk doesn't make Fred a
lot of friends among his fellow-greens. But that's the strength of his
new book: Confessions of an Eco  Sinner. He travelled the world to
find out where his stuff came from and isn't afraid to take on the
sacred cows of the green movement. This is ethical shopping for
grown-ups."


===========

By the end of this talk I expect to be fully convinced, ashamed and
despondant.  Maybe you can be too. 

- Paul



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From jrochon at uwaterloo.ca  Wed Oct  8 13:11:33 2008
From: jrochon at uwaterloo.ca (J. Rochon)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:11:33 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Garden money
Message-ID: <48ECE9C5.8020903@uwaterloo.ca>

Gardeners,
               Today we wave goodbye to the last UW Farmer's market of 
the year. Three leeks, two green peppers, two gourmet baby eggplants 
(how's that for spin), and a handful of hot peppers later, we are poorer 
in produce, but wealthier by $4.50. Evan will collect the loot and 
transport it to the safety of the WPIRG vaults.

              The Community Garden Council will refund our $50 as per 
our request, probably in November. I have decided not to ask for demurrage.


From pbelej at sandvine.com  Wed Oct  8 13:31:16 2008
From: pbelej at sandvine.com (Peter Belej)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:31:16 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Winding Down the season
Message-ID: <490204FF0C10C0429FC328CADD550691B7BBBB@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>

Gardeners,

 

As many of you can guess by the nature of the weather, the time is
approaching to do the final clean-up of the garden.  I am sending this
mainly since I will unlikely be back to the garden until the spring,
except possibly to pop in and say "Hello"

 

Aside form harvesting, about the only thing that would be somewhat
critical to do would be to pull out all the plants and throw them on the
compost (squash plants, eggplant, melon, peppers, nasturtium, etc.).
Things that do not need to be yanked out are:

-          Herbs (you can trim some down a couple inches from the ground
like mint, parsley, chives...)

-          Asparagus

-          Raspberries

-          Strawberries

-          Gooseberries

-          Rhubarb

-          Garlic (since we recently planted this)

-          Winter Wheat

-          (Artichoke?  I really have no idea about this one)

-          Late harvest crops (ie: things we planted recently and we're
waiting to hopefully grow up a bit)

 

If there is straw handy, you may consider to cover some of the beds (or,
maybe cover the beds with the black tarp-ish stuff that's in rolls in
the corner of the shed) so that we'll minimize the number of weeds we'll
have to deal with at the beginning of next season (this means that the
weeds that are in there -before- laying down the cover need to be pulled
out!)

 

I'd suggest tilling once again, but digging those beds by hand is a
pain, and renting one is, again, a matter of transportation.

 

So, if I manage to get out, I'll see you later.  If not, happy gardening
till season's end!

 

Pete

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From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  Wed Oct  8 13:52:10 2008
From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Garden] Winding Down the season
In-Reply-To: <490204FF0C10C0429FC328CADD550691B7BBBB@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>
Message-ID: <737854.21274.qm@web57603.mail.re1.yahoo.com>




--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Peter Belej <pbelej at sandvine.com> wrote:

> -          Herbs (you can trim some down a couple inches
> from the ground
> like mint, parsley, chives...)
> 
> -          Asparagus
> 
> -          Raspberries
> 
> -          Strawberries
> 
> -          Gooseberries
> 
> -          Rhubarb
> 
> -          Garlic (since we recently planted this)
> 
> -          Winter Wheat
> 
> -          (Artichoke?  I really have no idea about this
> one)
> 
> -          Late harvest crops (ie: things we planted
> recently and we're
> waiting to hopefully grow up a bit)
> 

Leeks can stay or be eaten. So can the lettuce we planted, since it is
a later crop. There are some peas but they probably won't do anything. 
Maybe the onions should be picked?

I suggest that FnB take as much lettuce and as many radishes as they
can use. 

I will be by on Sunday, weather permitting. I hope I am not lonely,
but given that I am incapable of getting to the garden on time I
expect I might be. 

- Paul



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From m.rosamond at gmail.com  Wed Oct  8 15:26:17 2008
From: m.rosamond at gmail.com (Madeline Rosamond)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:26:17 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Winding Down the season
In-Reply-To: <737854.21274.qm@web57603.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References: <490204FF0C10C0429FC328CADD550691B7BBBB@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>
	<737854.21274.qm@web57603.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3eedf3f50810081226v2410fc70la841f43e55fa58a7@mail.gmail.com>

I wouldn't recommend tilling, since we'd lose some soil to erosion.
Fight erosion, man! I'm not sure i"ll make it out today (deadlines,
deadlines) but hopefully I'll see y'all soon.

I turned over the compost about 2 weeks ago but I'm sure doing it
again wouldn't hurt.

Cheers,
Maddy

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Peter Belej <pbelej at sandvine.com> wrote:
>
>> -          Herbs (you can trim some down a couple inches
>> from the ground
>> like mint, parsley, chives...)
>>
>> -          Asparagus
>>
>> -          Raspberries
>>
>> -          Strawberries
>>
>> -          Gooseberries
>>
>> -          Rhubarb
>>
>> -          Garlic (since we recently planted this)
>>
>> -          Winter Wheat
>>
>> -          (Artichoke?  I really have no idea about this
>> one)
>>
>> -          Late harvest crops (ie: things we planted
>> recently and we're
>> waiting to hopefully grow up a bit)
>>
>
> Leeks can stay or be eaten. So can the lettuce we planted, since it is
> a later crop. There are some peas but they probably won't do anything.
> Maybe the onions should be picked?
>
> I suggest that FnB take as much lettuce and as many radishes as they
> can use.
>
> I will be by on Sunday, weather permitting. I hope I am not lonely,
> but given that I am incapable of getting to the garden on time I
> expect I might be.
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
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From jrochon at uwaterloo.ca  Wed Oct  8 15:41:57 2008
From: jrochon at uwaterloo.ca (J. Rochon)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:57 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Winding Down the season
In-Reply-To: <3eedf3f50810081226v2410fc70la841f43e55fa58a7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <490204FF0C10C0429FC328CADD550691B7BBBB@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>	<737854.21274.qm@web57603.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
	<3eedf3f50810081226v2410fc70la841f43e55fa58a7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48ED0D05.8030806@uwaterloo.ca>

Gardeners,
               It looks rainy. I don't like to garden in the rain. While 
it is true that tilling can lead to erosion it's also true that not 
turning or weeding gives weds the edge. I can spare some more radishes 
and wheat as cover crops. If there's consensus, then I can try covering 
bare spots with winter wheat and radishes. We could turn in both crops 
come spring. Please leave the wheat in the centre plot, I am hoping to 
harvest that. What do we think of cover crops?
> I wouldn't recommend tilling, since we'd lose some soil to erosion.
> Fight erosion, man! I'm not sure i"ll make it out today (deadlines,
> deadlines) but hopefully I'll see y'all soon.
>
> I turned over the compost about 2 weeks ago but I'm sure doing it
> again wouldn't hurt.
>
> Cheers,
> Maddy
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>   
>



From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  Sat Oct 18 16:44:31 2008
From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar)
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Garden] Garden cleanup tomorrow?
Message-ID: <253917.11911.qm@web57610.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

If the weather stays nice then I hope to be at the garden tomorrow afternoon. Maybe you would like to come out too? If you get there before me then you might clean up the climbing beans and squashes -- pick whatever harvest there is (I don't think there is much) and pull out the plants. I think those plants can go in the composter. 

The tomato beds have a lot of bindweed growing in them, so maybe we should pull that stuff out too. 

Candace and I discovered that some of our old beets have really thrived lately. They are a decent size and are crying out to be picked. 

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From alicia.mah at gmail.com  Sat Oct 18 17:00:26 2008
From: alicia.mah at gmail.com (Alicia Mah)
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:00:26 -0300
Subject: [Garden] Garden cleanup tomorrow?
In-Reply-To: <253917.11911.qm@web57610.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References: <253917.11911.qm@web57610.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <2ec448740810181400hdd2975bv202b6120f9afe911@mail.gmail.com>

im really looking forward to visiting waterloo next june when everything
will look pretty again in the garden :D

On 10/18/08, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> If the weather stays nice then I hope to be at the garden tomorrow
> afternoon. Maybe you would like to come out too? If you get there before me
> then you might clean up the climbing beans and squashes -- pick whatever
> harvest there is (I don't think there is much) and pull out the plants. I
> think those plants can go in the composter.
>
> The tomato beds have a lot of bindweed growing in them, so maybe we should
> pull that stuff out too.
>
> Candace and I discovered that some of our old beets have really thrived
> lately. They are a decent size and are crying out to be picked.
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From jrochon at uwaterloo.ca  Mon Oct 20 13:15:41 2008
From: jrochon at uwaterloo.ca (J. Rochon)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:15:41 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Saving seed
Message-ID: <48FCBCBD.1050304@uwaterloo.ca>

Gardeners,
                Has anyone saved seed from our garden plants? How do you 
preserve potatoes for use as seed? I have a few of our potatoes still 
under my sink. Finally, did we dig up the potatoes on Sunday, or are 
there still some left?



From pbelej at sandvine.com  Mon Oct 20 13:38:55 2008
From: pbelej at sandvine.com (Peter Belej)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:38:55 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Saving seed
In-Reply-To: <48FCBCBD.1050304@uwaterloo.ca>
References: <48FCBCBD.1050304@uwaterloo.ca>
Message-ID: <490204FF0C10C0429FC328CADD550691B7BF0A@EXCHANGE-1.sandvine.com>

Jason,

To store potatoes for a long period of time, you need to keep them dry
and cool.  A burlap sack in a cold cellar (ie: below 10 degrees C, above
freezing) works pretty well.  They may start to grow the little
chutes/eyes, but they should be fine for the sake of planting.

This season, my parents had just bought potatoes from the grocery store,
and they seemed to do just fine, so worst-case, we'll just go buy a
handful from the store!

I can save some butternut squash seeds (if I remember), and probably
some pole bean seeds (if I remember).  I wasn't entirely sure how to
store tomato seeds, so I didn't bother.  We've already planted garlic,
so that's one less thing to worry about.

Pete


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of J. Rochon
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:16 PM
To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
Subject: [Garden] Saving seed

Gardeners,
                Has anyone saved seed from our garden plants? How do you

preserve potatoes for use as seed? I have a few of our potatoes still 
under my sink. Finally, did we dig up the potatoes on Sunday, or are 
there still some left?


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From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  Mon Oct 20 13:52:20 2008
From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:52:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Garden] Saving seed
In-Reply-To: <48FCBCBD.1050304@uwaterloo.ca>
Message-ID: <912037.71741.qm@web57607.mail.re1.yahoo.com>




--- On Mon, 10/20/08, J. Rochon <jrochon at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>                 Has anyone saved seed from our garden
> plants? How do you 
> preserve potatoes for use as seed? I have a few of our
> potatoes still 
> under my sink. Finally, did we dig up the potatoes on
> Sunday, or are 
> there still some left?

There are still two plants left. There are still quite a few of the
white onions too. 

I cleaned up some of the beans and nasturtiums and stuff, but there is
still quite a bit of cleanup to be done yet. 

Also: if you do show up please leave a message in our shiny new
logbook. 

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From candace at owr.ca  Mon Oct 20 15:55:39 2008
From: candace at owr.ca (Candace Wormsbecker)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:55:39 -0400
Subject: [Garden] FW: Wednesday
Message-ID: <mailman.13.1224532659.20189.garden_lists.wpirg.org@lists.wpirg.org>



I was planning on going to the garden on Wednesday.  The season is quickly
coming to an end and it would be nice to continue putting everything away
before snow comes.  Hopefully the rain will hold off this week:) Feel free
to come join me!

Anyone up for an end of the year party? Ian and I would be willing to host a
season end potluck Wednesday, November 5th if people are interested. We
could say 7pm in case people want to go to the garden first. 

Candace



--- On Mon, 10/20/08, J. Rochon <jrochon at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>                 Has anyone saved seed from our garden
> plants? How do you 
> preserve potatoes for use as seed? I have a few of our
> potatoes still 
> under my sink. Finally, did we dig up the potatoes on
> Sunday, or are 
> there still some left?

There are still two plants left. There are still quite a few of the
white onions too. 

I cleaned up some of the beans and nasturtiums and stuff, but there is
still quite a bit of cleanup to be done yet. 

Also: if you do show up please leave a message in our shiny new
logbook. 

- Paul


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From m.rosamond at gmail.com  Thu Oct 23 12:01:51 2008
From: m.rosamond at gmail.com (Madeline Rosamond)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:01:51 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Life cycle analyzer
Message-ID: <3eedf3f50810230901x5dfd17d0u8c9826d49a795c0c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, all:
For those of us cool folks at the CIGI talk yesterday, one of the
speakers referenced a "life cycle assessment" website from Carnegie
Mellon that calculates CO2 footprints for many products. Here it is
and enjoy!
Cheers,
Maddy

http://www.eiolca.net/cgi-bin/multimatrix/use.pl


From candace at owr.ca  Thu Oct 23 17:27:09 2008
From: candace at owr.ca (Candace Wormsbecker)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:27:09 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Garden Update #3
Message-ID: <mailman.14.1224866480.20189.garden_lists.wpirg.org@lists.wpirg.org>

Garden Update - October 23, 2008 (please circulate to all your gardeners!) 

 

Media

 


*         Cambridge Times - September 26th, 2008 - Land search: A local
woman is in search of some land for a community garden for a Preston
neighbourhood and is facing challenges along the way.
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/printarticle/145170


*         The New York Times - October 9, 2008 - Farmer-in-Chief.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?pagewanted=4
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?pagewanted=4&_r=
1&em> &_r=1&em


*         The Record - October 17th, 2008 - Evicted from Garden.
http://news.therecord.com/article/430798


*         The Record - October 6th, 2008 - Toward a healing garden.
http://news.therecord.com/article/425099


 

Policy

 

*	The Regional Official Plan for the Region of Waterloo is up for
revision.  This plan guides the development of the Region over the next 20
years.  The first draft is out and there is mention of 'support for
community gardens'. (Please see
http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/DocID/D601C02D0AB9D6F1852570
5E004674E9?OpenDocument for the complete document.)   This is great but we
need to make sure that the things you guys have requested are in there,
lands set aside for community gardens, funds, infrastructure, etc.  I have
attached a letter that will be presented at one of the upcoming public
consultation sessions.  These sessions are open to the public to provide
feedback on the draft, and are happening on the following dates:

 

Tuesday, October 28, 3-8 p.m.
Region of Waterloo Public Health and Social Services Building
Room 210/211
99 Regina Street, Waterloo

Thursday, October 30, 3-8 p.m.
North Dumfries Township Offices
Slater Hall
1171 Greenfield Road, North Dumfries

Tuesday, November 4, 3-8 p.m.
Region of Waterloo - Cambridge Public Health and Social Services Building
Room 170
150 Main Street, Cambridge

Thursday, November 6, 3-8 p.m.
Woolwich Township Offices
Council Chambers
24 Church Street, Elmira

Thursday, November 20, 3-8 p.m.
St. Clements Community Centre
1 Green Street, St. Clements

 

The more names we could have to support this letter the more chance we will
have long-term support for community gardens in the Region!  Please pass
this out to anyone that has an interest!  Please let me know if you plan on
attending one of these sessions.

 

Events

 

*	Neighbourhood Market Planning Initiative - The last 2 years the
Region of Waterloo and Opportunities Waterloo Region, along with several
volunteers have helped bring fresh produce to neighbourhoods throughout the
Region.  Join the conversation to decide the next steps for the
neighbourhood markets in the Region.  This could be an opportunity for input
from gardeners who are interested in selling produce at these markets.
Location:  Mill Courtland Community Centre, 216 Mill St., Kitchener. Time:
10am-12pm.  Contact Sanjay Govindaraj at 519-883-2004 ext. 5305 if you plan
on attending. 
*	Growing Food Security: Local Food For Local Tables Conference - Join
like-minded people sharing stories, challenges, strategies, and successes to
encourage and facilitate local buying and growing of food.  November 27,
2008.  Brescia University College, 1285 Western Road, London, ON. Cost:
$40.00 (lunch included.).  Registration deadline is November 14, 2008.  Go
to www.lcrc.on.ca for more information, contact Mary Yanful at 519-432-1801
ext 300, or email mary at lcrc.on.ca 
*	Community Garden Council AGM - "So Where's the Green" - happened
October 21st.  Lots of great speakers!  Thanks to Andy Copp from the
McDougall Community Garden, Roger St. Louis from TD Friends of the
Environment, and Charmian Patrick and Hong Seang from the Peace & Carrots
Garden, as well as the Community Garden Council for all their efforts!

 

Funding Sources

 

*	TD Friends of the Environment.  Accepts applications year round,
however should apply at least a month before you need the money.  Amounts
from $50-$4000 can be granted.  They have funded a number of community
gardens in other communities.  For more information go to:
http://www.td.com/fef/index.jsp.  Sounds like rate of success for
applicants!

 

In the Garden

 

*	Mushroom Compost Available for Purchase.  If you are interested
please contact Heather at Victoria Hills Community Garden.  Tel.
519-745-7242

 

 

I'm working to provide as much relevant information to everyone as possible
in a concise and easy to read format.  I once again encourage you to pass
this along to everyone at your garden.  If you have any comments or
suggestions about this email feedback is welcome.  

 

Thanks,

 

Candace

 

________________________

 

Candace Wormsbecker

Community Garden Capacity Builder

 

Opportunities Waterloo Region

235  King St. E., Main Floor

Kitchener, ON

N2G 4N5

 

Tel: 519-883-2353 ext. 5984

Fax: 519-568-8587

 

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered (Ralph
Waldo Emerson).

 

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From candace at owr.ca  Mon Oct 27 13:08:29 2008
From: candace at owr.ca (Candace Wormsbecker)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:08:29 -0400
Subject: [Garden] Correction to Garden Update #3 & On-Line Petition
Message-ID: <mailman.0.1225131852.5383.garden_lists.wpirg.org@lists.wpirg.org>

Corrections from Update #3.

 

1.  The date for the Neighbourhood Market Planning Initiative is November
6th, 10-12pm.  Location:  Mill Courtland Community Centre, 216 Mill St.,
Kitchener. 

 

2.  There was also confusion about the letter regarding the Regional
Official Plan.  If you could have your gardeners, or anyone else interested,
sign this letter as an indication of their support, it would give us more
clout in ensuring community gardens stay in the final document of the
Regional Official Plan.  If you need a printed copy I can mail you one to
use to collect signatures, and I can also come pick up the document after
you have collected signatures if needed.  Alternatively, there is an on-line
petition that you could fill out and email to your network for support.
This petition can be accessed at:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/CommunityGardens.  Deadline for
feedback is January 31st, 2009.

 

Thanks,

Candace

 

________________________

 

Candace Wormsbecker

Community Garden Capacity Builder

 

Opportunities Waterloo Region

235  King St. E., Main Floor

Kitchener, ON

N2G 4N5

 

Tel: 519-883-2353 ext. 5984

Fax: 519-568-8587

 

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered (Ralph
Waldo Emerson).

 

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