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Sunday February 21, 2010
12:30PM - 6PM
New Day and Extended Hours
(Barn #2) Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
See the map
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This year we are featuring the
“North American Native Plant Society” (NANPS)
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All translations have been donated by volunteers. Please contact mail@tcgn.ca if you would like to translate part of the poster for us.
Sábado de Semillas
Samedi de Graines
سبت البذور
IL SABATO DEI SEMI
E SHTUNA E FARËRAVE
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Admission:
Admission is by donation, $2 recommended or pay what you can.
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Accessibility:
If you need assistance because of physical accessibility issues, please e-mail us at: mail@tcgn.ca by Friday, February 19 so that we can have an accessibility volunteer available
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Visit The Perth Dupont Community Garden
The Perth Dupont Community garden will have our Open Pollinated seeds available from last years growing season
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR
DIGGING
AND BULB PLANTING
PERTH DUPONT COMMUNITY GARDEN
Thursday, October 22nd,
6:00-7:30 pm
Friday October 23rd,
9:00am - 12:30pm
Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation BULBS (Better Urban Landscapes through Bulbs) program has given the Perth Dupont Community Garden 280 bulbs.
Planting will take place on Friday October 23rd from 9am-12:30 pm with the assistance of Grade 5 and 6 students from Perth Public School.
Help to dig the ground will also be needed the night before on Thursday, October 22nd 6:00-7:30 pm.
TO SIGN UP OR FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Susan Berman, perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
The Perth Dupont Community Garden is located in the Symington Avenue Playground Park.
The entrance is on Perth Avenue just north of Dupont St.
Welcome to the Perth Dupont Community Garden
Join our circle of gardeners
at the Perth and Dupont Community
Garden, For our Harvest Festival
on
September 20th 3:00 pm.
Edmond, our chef, will run a BBQ for us, we will have chicken, and hot dogs for the carnivores and vegetarian things for those of you that would prefer not to eat meat.
It will be a pot luck, if you wish to bring some food, otherwise the community garden funds will pay for the main course.
- Where: The Perth and Dupont Community Garden.
- When: September 20th 3:00 pm.
- What should you bring: A smile and your love..
The Perth Dupont Community Garden is located just one street west of Symington, walk north on Perth Ave. to the park, it is on your right side.
Visit our website at: www.perthdupont.parkcommons.ca
for more information you can e-mail your questions to Susan: perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
A residents' group called Fuzzy Boundaries has initiated a naming process for the area.
This image features the many faces of our community past and present.
While those in the pictures may know each other by name, many aren't sure what to call the neighbourhood.
A residents' group called Fuzzy Boundaries has initiated a naming process for the area. You are invited to our second lively discussion about neighbourhood identities.
When: Tuesday, September 15 at 7 p.m.
Where: St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church (110 Franklin Avenue).
Urban affairs specialist, CBC broadcaster and National Director of the annual Jane Jacobs Walk, Jane Farrow will discuss the naming experience of the West Queen West community group Active 18. Fuzzy Boundaries member Chris Kwaczek will also speak about neighbourhood demographics.
Soil Day With John Slack - At Downsview Park
Wednesday September 16th at 5pm
FoodCycles is a non-profit city farm, based in the Downsview Park. It raises worms, produces nutritious, vibrant soil and grows food.
The theme of this presentation will be:
"How and why to nourish your soil".
Learn how to keep your soil healthy and productive. This presentation is especially important for organic gardeners. It will include a soil test demonstration for the fertility of the soil .
There will be an open discussion of gardening techniques and you will be able to ask John your gardening questions, and concerns.
Location: 70 Canuck Ave. Toronto Map
Date: Wednesday September 16th
Time:'from 5:00 - 6:30pm
We are planning a potluck and invite you to bring bring your favorite dish for your family or to share.
..Please bring bio-degradable, or re-usable plate and cup and cutlery
This lecture and demonstration is free but participants should register.
For more information, and to register, please contact Susan at perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
Garlic And Seed Saving for August
Harvesting Garlic and seeds Workshop
With a bit of a Garden tour too
This is a series of workshops harvesting different varieties of Garlic. Including Russian, Mountain Top, Sweet Haven, and Music.
Where: Perth Dupont Community Garden
When: Every Saturday starting Aug 1, 2009
- Aug 1, 2009
- Aug 8, 2009
- Aug 15, 2009
- Aug 22, 2009
Garlic Party on Aug 29, 2009 at 2:30PM
Rain Date - Garlic Party - has been moved to:
September 5th2009 Starting at 2:30
Time: All the workshops will start at 2:30PM
What: We will be harvesting some different varieties of Garlic. Including Russian, Mountain Top, Sweet Haven, and Music. We will also be talking about seed saving. And, we will show you how to bring home your harvest with out wilting, and other harvesting techniques to make the best of all your gardening work.
Workshops are free but participants should register.
For more information, and to register, please contact Susan at perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
The Perth Dupont Community Garden is located in the Symington Avenue Playground Map
The entrance to the Park and the garden is from Perth Ave.
www.perth-dupont.parkcommons.ca
Soil day with John Slack At the Garden Party Community Garden
"The Garden Party" Hosted by Redeemer Lutheran
Tuesday September 8 2009 At 6:30pm
The Theme of this presentation is:
"The Warning signs of nutrient depletion in your soil".
Learn how to keep your soil healthy and productive. This presentation is especially important for organic gardeners. It will include a soil test demonstration for the fertility of the soil .
There will be an open discussion of gardening techniques and you will be able to ask John your gardening questions, and concerns.
Date: September 8 2009
Time: 6:30 to 8pm
Location: 1691 Bloor Street West, Bloor Street West & Indian Road - Main Intersection - Bloor & Keele Street map
Harvesting Garlic and seeds Workshop
With a bit of a Garden tour too
This is a series of workshops harvesting different varieties of Garlic.
Where: Perth Dupont Community Garden
When: Saturday July 25th 2009
Time: 2:30PM
What: We will be harvesting some Garlic, and talking about seed saving. As well, we will show you how to bring home your harvest with out wilting, and other harvesting techniques to make the best of all your gardening work.
For more information, and to register, please contact Susan at perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
www.perth-dupont.parkcommons.ca
Perth dupont Community Garden
at the
Big on Bloor Event!
Come Join us on Saturday, June 20, 2009
1:00-6:00 PM
We will have potted plants like Tomatoes & Basil, and Chives, for your baloney gardens. Some seeds that can still be planted in June. And, we will also have Certified Organic Fertilizer - Spanish River Carbontite for sale.
We will also have some other garden related items and maybe even some arts and crafts.
Big on Bloor website
We will be in Section "W" (Emerson to St. Clarens) Yasi’s Friends & Neighbourhood Resources.
and with our friends from the Art Class at the South Asian Women's Centre, and our website supporters CELOS The Centre for Local Research into Public Space
Stay with us for the PWYC Dinner @ 6pm.
Toronto Urban Growers - TUG
Toronto Urban Growers - City Wide Gathering
When: Thursday July 9th from 9am - 1pm
Where: FoodShare 90 Croatia Street.
What: to share our growing knowledge, comment on the city's new urban agriculture policies-June 16th meeting at City Hall-, and report back on activities over the last few months, to hear from all of the TUG working groups, and to plan the next steps for TUG.
Map to FoodShare
-*-For more information about the
June 16th meeting at City Hall please click here
The agenda for the meeting is as follows.
- 9:00-9:20 Coffee and snacks
- 9:20-9:50 Welcome, Agenda review and Introductions
- 9:50-10:30 Update and discussion on the city's new urban agriculture policies
- 10:30-10:50 Update from working groups
- 10:50-11:10 Other updates
- 11:10-11:25 Break
- 11:25-12:00 Working group discussions and action planning
- 12:00-12:35 Discussion about how to Scale up Urban Agriculture in Toronto*
- 12:35-1:00 Next steps and Wrap up
- 1:00-1:30 Lunch will be provided by FoodShare for $7.00
If you would like to join us for lunch, please RSVP to Camille by emailing camille@foodshare.net
or by calling 416 363 6441 x225.
*Scaling up Urban Agriculture in Toronto
For 35 minutes, we will continue the discussion of how to scale up urban agriculture in Toronto. At the TUG Nov. 17, 2008, participants identified the following main barriers to urban farming in Toronto:
- Soil Compost/ Safety/ Quality
- Land Access
- Land Zoning
- Funding/ Resources/Infrastructure
- Diversity and Equity in Access
- Marketing /Infrastructure
- Training
- Network and Communication
We will split into 3 groups to continue the discussion. The groups will be led by James Kuhns, Rod MacRae and Joe Nasr, who were recently selected to work on a Metcalf solution paper titled, Building the Infrastructure Required for Scaling up Urban Agriculture in Toronto.
They will be seeking your feedback on 6 areas that are critical to taking urban agriculture to the next level:
- Physical infrastructure
- Growing space infrastructure
- Food-chain infrastructure
- Financial infrastructure
- Knowledge infrastructure
Governance, Management and Coordination infrastructure
We look forward to hearing your ideas on this important subject.
About TUG
Toronto Urban Growers is a working group focused on networking, communication, advocacy to support urban growing in Toronto. Please spread the word, and get the urban growers and supporters that you know connected.
We also have a wordpress site, which will be our future home. At this point the website is well set up, but needs to have a bunch of content added. To start dreaming about what you'd like to add, go to urbangrowers.wordpress.com
posted May 26, 2009
Christie Pits Community Garden Groundbreaking Event
Date: Sunday May 31
Time: 11am (Pizza around 2pm)
Location: Christie Pits Park!
Map
The garden area is in the south west corner of the park.
What to Bring: bring your gloves, shovels, watering cans, (and your water bottles), wheelbarrows and get ready to dig!
Help us get the Christie Pits Community Garden off the ground!
We will be digging, planting, creating paths and eating pizza on Sunday to get this garden growing. There will be experienced gardeners on hand to answer questions, fresh pizza from the Christie Pits bake oven, a visit from Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and music for your enjoyment. In exchange, bring your gloves, shovels, watering cans, wheelbarrows and get ready to dig!
The soil in Christie Pits is in desperate need of compost. We built compost tumblers so that we will have rich, organic compost in 3 weeks. Bring us your vegetable scraps, egg shells and coffee grinds so we can get the compost started. Please note: with the exception of egg shells, compost donations need to be vegan and oil free in order to cut down on odours and have a quick turn around time.
Pizza and water will be supplied, please bring your own water bottle so we can cut down on waste.
Even if you are not directly involved in the garden, if you have questions, contributions, or just want to get your hands dirty for a day come see us on Sunday, we have lots to do!
Soil Day With John Slack
At the Perth Dupont community Garden
Monday May 18th, 5pm
Come and join the Perth Dupont Community Garden as we welcome John Slack and learn about soil.
Soil Day is a tour of the garden with John. He will teach you about the soil life, the soil health, and how to care for your soil. As he does soil tests in different areas of the garden, you can ask him your gardening questions.
He will be bringing his soil testing equipment. The City does some soil tests for Gardens located in Parks, but that is just for toxic stuff. John does testing to see the fertility of the soil.
The Perth Dupont Community Garden is located just north of Bloor St. and west of Lansdowne Ave. We are one block west of Symington Ave, just a short walk up Perth Ave. north of Dupont St. The entrance to the garden is on Perth Ave, Location.
For more information contact mail@tcgn.ca
and visit the Perth Dupont website: www.perth-dupont.parkcommons.ca
Garden Jane
Please read the note from the desk of Garden Jane, it is inspiring and informative!
Plant Fair Saturday May 9
Click on poster to enlarge it
Join us at
Parkdale School & Community Centre
75 Lansdowne at Seaforth
Volunteers can start as early as 7am
Members’ Advance Sale 9–10am
Assemble in the Vendors’ gym
Plant Fair for the general public 11am to 2pm
Our very own Kristin C. (AKA the Parkdale Tomato Lady) will be selling Tomato Seedlings.
These varieties do very well in our garden are all indeterminate (will grow and grow and grow), and are carbon neutral. This means she has grown them with no artificial lights, and all pots are reused. (Most seedlings you buy have been grown under lights and have a heavy carbon footprint.)
Here’s the Hort. secret to a successful Plant Fair...
It’s your generosity with plant divisions from your garden.
The perennial divisions contributed by members are the core of our fundraising success. Without your spade work and generosity we can’t do it. Don’t forget to label your divisions thoroughly and include photos if you can. It makes for a guaranteed sale if you show the plant at its best. A sample pdf document is down-loadable that to may find useful for plant labeling.
Take your divisions to one of the drop off locations listed below before Friday May 8
'''Drop off locations:
97 Fermanaugh Avenue (near Roncesvalles)
112 Robinson Street (North of Queen at Claremont)
129 Evans Avenue (East of Jane and South of Annette)
Yours in music, Wallis
An Invitation from the friends of the Christie Pits Community Garden:
Wallis has organized a final graduate recital in the performance theatre at the Royal Conservatory of Music
- Thursday, May 7th, At 8PM
- Mazzoleni Hall, at The Royal Conservatory
- 273 Bloor St. W, at Avenue Rd.
I have chosen a program of my favorite music, and pieces that have been very successful for me in the past few years. I will begin with Mozart's aria *Parto, Parto* from * La Clemenza di Tito* , with Justin Johnston on clarinet obbligato . Next is a set of (surprise) Schubert *Lieder *, followed by Montsalvatge's sultry Cuban songs, *Cinco Canciones Negras*.
After intermission, I will sing Ravel's *Scheherazade*, and finish with Vivaldi's fireworks aria *Agitata da due Venti*, from *La Griselda*.
I will be expertly assisted by my coach and colleague, Steven Philcox, and it's worth coming just to hear him play the Ravel!
I do hope you can make it, and help me celebrate four amazing years at The Glenn Gould School. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested (the poster is attached). I look forward to seeing you!
Yours in music,
Wallis
www.wallis.giunta.ca
Celebrate Spring with West End Flower Fairies!
Hello friends of West End Flower Fairies!
We are having a Spring Soiree in celebration and support of West End Flower Fairy Community Gardens on April 16 at Buddha Dog on Ronces! Please join us to kick off the gardening season in style - come learn more about WEFF, catch up with your garden old pals, meet new volunteers, and have a really teensy hot dog! They'll be entertainment, info displays, local wine and beer, and raffle prizes. It'll be lots of fun - don't miss it!
What: Spring Soiree in celebration and support of West End Flower Fairy Community Gardens
When: Thursday, April 16 at 7pm
Where: Buddha Dog, 163 Roncesvalles Avenue
For more information contact the Emerson Garden Flower Fairy
At the West End Flower Fairies westendflowerfairies@hotmail.com
And click here to see the description of the gardens of the West End Flower Fairies .
Seedy Saturday 2009
Toronto’s Seedy Saturday is moving to a new venue this year! It’s an exciting move, bringing with it many new opportunities
Saturday February 28, 2009
open
from 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm
(Barn #2) Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
See the map
Toronto's BEST Eco Fair,
With Seed exchange, Heirloom seeds for sale, gardening workshops, and kids activities.
The Theme this year is POTATOES, to read a bit more about heirloom potatoes please click here
Seedy Saturday is the day when the new gardening season begins in earnest. You can have an opportunity to learn more about gardening, hone and share your gardening skills, and buy or exchange vegetable and flower seeds.
We are seeking to ensure that there is an ample supply ofheritage and organic seeds available. There will be organic gardening supplies, soil amendments, tools and resources. Environmental organizations and community groups will have information tables on topics of interest to gardeners.
And, as always, there will be food and beverage stands to enhance the overall experience and atmosphere.
What are the Artscape Wychwood Barns?
The Barns are located at 601 Christie Street, just south of St. Clair Avenue. Read More >>
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