Let’s do some shovelling!!

Hi, a new delivery of soil has arrived. Volunteers are needed to help shovel the dirt into the boxes anytime after school or in that “in-between time” from 2:45 to 3:15. Bring your shovels, tomorrow, Tuesday and let’s get it moved!

Planting will begin after the first moon in June!

Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Funding…for us!

Today we got great news! The school garden has received a grant from the Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Funding Program. We will receive $700 towards native plants and seeds along with other operating costs. Big shout out to Sue Comeau Stender who took the initiative to make this happen! You can read more about Toyota Evergreen project here.

Work party poster

Come home in a backpack soon…

Garden Clean up SUNDAY OCT 23, 11am

We hope students and their families can come out on SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 at 11am to 12:30 to help with winter prep for the school garden and grounds. We hope to plant flower bulbs at the school entrance and around the school sign along with garlic bulbs in the garden, so if you have any extras you haven’t put in the ground yet, bring them along.

Please bring gloves, rakes and trowels if you have them.

See you Sunday!

Meeting Thursday Oct 13th

Happy Thanksgiving!

Everyone is invited to a garden planning meeting on Thursday, Oct 13th, 12:15pm at Inglis Street School. We will talk about what we need to build/budget for next year, what kind of fundraising and schedule another garden cleanup event before the ground FREEZES! Hope you can join us.

Check the bounty!

Please harvest!

A note from Jean Snow:

“We finished the arugula and most of the radishes today.  We planted some more beans where the arugula was by the cucumbers.  The Purple Mizuna is soooo ready to be harvested.  So is the lettuces and the Swiss Chard.  I mentioned it to Chief Craig but if it is still there when you go by, please pick some.  There are lots of peas to harvest also. ”

The garden is full of produce…please drop by and help yourselves! Pull a weed or two at the same time 🙂

Summer watering and weeding

We hope we can keep all those who are interested involved in the garden over the summer. The plan is to have a scheduled work event one day a week throughout the summer weeks. Maybe Sunday night, 7pm? Post your comments below if that time does not work for you. We have the help of Jean Snow and her team through the month of July along with a volunteer assigned to the garden by the Ecology Action Centre through their school garden matchmaker program. We will need help with weeding, watering and thinning/eating of the lettuce! Post below if you have any other comments or suggestions. We are still working on a rain barrel solution, a parent at the school has volunteered to make a platform. Get in touch if you have any other ideas or comments. Here’s to the first day of summer!

Weedy Friday

Ms. Pelly’s grade six class was out on Friday weeding the garden. If you haven’t been by in awhile, check out the beds they are starting to look full and green.

Soil haulers needed Saturday 9am!

A soil delivery is arriving Saturday morning at 9am. We need parents and children with shovels and wheelbarrows to help transfer the soil from the pile to the boxes. If you have time before the kid run, head on over. If you have time after the kid run, head on over. We just need to fill the remaining two boxes up! If we are able to get this done over the weekend, planting will begin next week.