Canmore Community Gardening Society
Growing Food! Building Community! Gardening Together!
Here is a blog about the Canmore Community Garden by one of the families new to our project! Click on the link here to read the full story: http://lindacotestudio.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/opening-a-garden-opens-our-hearts/
Ever tasted a bottle of biodynamic wine? Wondered how the moon might affect planting your garden? Or how Biodynamic is different than Organic? Join Biodynamic Farmer Greg Mountain for a FREE short introduction to this wholistic approach to farming. Time: 10am – 11:30am Date:…
By Lauren Our little garden plot is the first I’ve been confronted with space restrictions. When I started squash and zucchini seeds in my window and told my father, who lives in southern Ontario with multiple gardens and much space to expand to, that…
By Lauren Admittedly I’ve been eating vast amounts of strawberries and garlic scapes during a trip back to Southern Ontario and back west through the states. During my travels I’ve been wide eyed for gardens of all kinds. Visiting friends in Toronto’s cabbage town…
By Lauren Kepkiewicz One of my favourite abundant vegetables and generally one of the first to appear and the last to be scared off by the frost is kale. Beautiful curly kale, blue kale, purple kale, dinosaur kale. My favourite thing to do with…
By Lauren I’m not only looking forward to crouching down beside my garden plot and clipping many shades of green but I’m also looking forward to the abundance that comes with greens. I’m no longer talking about delicate mesculin mixes from the post below…
By Lauren I love greens. And after a winter of tenderly transporting lone romaine heads tucked deep in my backpack to keep them from Canmore cold, I couldn’t wait for fresh greens. We’ve been growing two boxes of greens in our window for the…
By Lauren Kepkiewicz I’ve been excitedly coddling my seedlings for the past month or so. They’re all clustered in the window, vying for optimal sunlight, roots ready to expand beyond pots. I started to think about seeds in February, browsing websites with tea in…
by Georgina Arrowsmith The AGM meeting was a wonderful forum for gardening discussion. Advice for harvest improvement was abundant. The mystery of peas was de-shelled and tips to pacify basil’s Tuscan homesickness unearthed. What was quickly made apparent to myself however was how far…
For all you who work in construction related trades or who have access to scrap materials we are keen to salvage, recover and reuse as much material as possible in our building projects! Do you have access to any of the materials on this…