Riverdale Meadow Community Garden
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Saturday 16 August 2008, 2-4pm
Season Extension Techniques and ColdFraming in Hamilton for local community gardeners
Contact Sapphire Singh 905 / 540-8787 x 18, or garden@greenventure.ca
Directions: Green Venture's EcoHouse 22 Veevers Drive, Hamilton
for complete directions use this link:
ecohouse.greenventure.ca/map-and-directions
Saturday 23 August 2008, 8am - 2pm
Evergreen's Farm To Fork Festival
At The Brickworks, Bayview Extension south of Pottery Road
www.evergreen.ca/rethinkspace/?cat=9
We'll be selling our famous, delectable, organic, Purple Raspberry / Apple-Cider Vinegar; and, new this year, Black-and-White vinegar: BlackCap Raspberries infused in White Balsamic Vinegar.
As well, we will have our books: recipes and instructions on drying fruits, texts and gardening calendars on Season Extension Techniques, and a new book of poems on community gardening.
We also produce custom-made water barrel screen covers, in line with the City of Toronto's by-laws on eliminating mosquito breeding locations to reduce the threat of West Nile Virus.
There'll be more surprises, too.
Saturday 6 September 2008, 9am - 1pm
Withrow Park Farmers' Market -- second annual Urban Heirloom Harvest Festival
Withrow Park, Logan Avenue, 1 block south of Danforth Avenue (west of Carlaw)
www.withrowpark.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=WithrowPark.FrontPage
We'll be selling our famous, delectable, organic, Purple Raspberry / Apple-Cider Vinegar; and, new this year, Black-and-White vinegar: BlackCap Raspberries infused in White Balsamic Vinegar.
As well, we will have our books: recipes and instructions on drying fruits, texts and gardening calendars on Season Extension Techniques and ColdFraming, and a new book of poems on community gardening.
We also produce custom-made water barrel screen covers, in line with the City of Toronto's by-laws on eliminating mosquito breeding locations to reduce the threat of West Nile Virus.
There'll be more surprises, too.
Tuesday 9 September 2008 3:30 - 5pm
Trinity-Bellwoods Farmers' Market, North-West corner of the park, Dundas Street East of Dovercourt, between Shaw and Crawford.
A presentation on Season Extension Techniques and ColdFraming, selling our books and calendars, seeds, and delectable fruit-infused vinegars.
See: www.trinitybellwoods.ca/trinity-bellwoods-farmers-market-1
Tuesday 16 September, 2008
H.O.P.E. Garden (Healthy Organic Parkdale Edibles), at Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, Queen Street west of Dufferin Preserving Garden Edibles: drying, canning, freezing, and infusing in vinegar, oil, and butter.
Contact Carolyn Young, HOPE/Greenest City at 647 / 438-0038
See: www.greenestcity.net/9.html
Back by Popular Demand!
Saturday 30 August 2008 Sunday 7 September 2008 Saturday 13 September 2008 Sunday 21 September, 2008
all run from 2 - 5pm
Each date is a separate workshop covering similar material:
ColdFrames and Season Extension Techniques: building both simple wire frames and wooden ColdFrames, including a Garden Tour and winter seed planting.
Riverdale Meadow Community Garden, 1 Danforth Avenue, at Broadview, on the south meadow, back of the school.
Building wooden frames involves demonstrations using power tools. Bring your own cordless drill, if you have one, and work gloves. All materials will be supplied; and the Raised Beds and ColdFrames built will be used in Riverdale Meadow Community Garden. These workshops will teach you how to build your own frames using recycled materials. You will learn how create shelters to grow foods outdoors through the winter, using only the power of the sun.
Wear appropriately safe footwear; and dress for the weather, bringing sunscreen and/or insect repellents, as appropriate. As well, bring your own drinks and snacks - the garden is in a relatively remote location, some distance from physical amenities.
These workshops will go ahead rain or shine (unless there is an electrical storm over the meadow.)
Cost: $20- per participant, with a maximum of 5 individuals at each workshop.
Pre-Registration is required: Contact coldframes (at) gmail (dot) com or 416 / 469-9507 x 2.
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