Canmore Community Gardening Society
Growing Food! Building Community! Gardening Together!
As you may know, our community garden has benefited from the enthusiastic support of several Katimavik volunteers this season. Katimavik is a nationally funded non-profit youth volunteer service that has been active in our community for the last year. There are currently 10 volunteers…
A successful day of earthworks in the rain has expanded our garden and prepared it for spring planting! Over 30 people turned out last saturday, shovels in hand, ready to dig and haul, build and mulch , sample tea and put some permaculture skills…
After our Water Solutions Brainstorming Session last week, we’ve decided to test the waterworks in our garden to make sure they are working as designed before we go ahead and replicated them in the second half of our garden. There was some concern over…
Let’s Build a Garden! Grab your shovels, wheel barrows and work gloves! Bring along your grass clippings and dried leaves! * Tree Planting along the north fence* Building a herb garden for the hospital* Sheet-mulching the potato spokes* Developing the rest of our garden …learn…
Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture refers to many weeds and so-called ‘invasive species’ as Hard-Working Immigrants…A neat perspective giving value to the many plants dismissed by most gardeners as a nuisance. Below is some information I came across on Plants for a Future facebook…
Gardeners celebrated the first season’s bounty of greens, herbs, edible flowers and new friends under the August full moon recently. Thanks to the rich injection of nutrients from our enormous pile of horse manure, carefully selected seed varieties, and the tremendous amount of love…
A day-long excursion through Larch Islands and Carrot Creek with Blaine Andrusek, Master Herbologist from Wild Rose College gave members of Canmore Community Gardening a little bit of insight into the local bounty of edible and medicinal plants. Blaine’s colourful stories, wild tales and…
Getting Creative with Recycled Materials! Community Gardeners experimented with some vertical growing space in the garden during our recent Pallet Garden Building Workshop! Using strategies inspired by Life on the Balcony, we have planted the walls of our wood pallet tool shed with all…
Looking to get involved!? Pallet Garden Building: Monday July 18 6-8pm @ the garden (free for members – otherwise $20)Learn to build a beautiful garden out of recycled materials… a perfect herb garden for your balcony! Hands-on learning, and find out where to get free…
Sunday, July 24th 9am-5pmCost: $70 / $80 CCG Members/Non-MembersSpaces available: 18Canmore Community Gardening Presents:Blaine Andrusek, Master Herbologist, who will guide us on a day-long excursion to identify edible and medicinal plants in the forests, marshes and meadows around Canmore! He will teach us about…