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Garden News
This Friday, March 22nd, Kayla from the compost education centre will be at the garden to teach the Composting Basics Workshop!! Meet at the garden at 3pm to learn all about compost and to help make a hot composting pile.
Next Friday, March 29th, we will be hosting our annual Spring Social at the garden! It's a pot luck, so bring food and bring friends. There will be some entertainment and fun and games. But if you have any suggestions or ideas please email us! So excited to see you there
We are in need of more big cardboard! As we begin to prepare for a large hedgerow planting in the coming weeks we are collecting large pieces of cardboard for sheet mulching. Cardboard pieces should be 4 ft or larger. Please send us an email at ccgassist@uvic.ca to arrange drop off of donations.
Tickets are available for this years Farm Crawl! Get yours before it's too late. Click here for more information and to buy tickets. We have many fun workshops and events coming up in March and April, make sure to keep an eye out so you don't miss out on the festivities!
If you have any ideas for workshop topics, we can help turn them into a reality! Shoot an email to ccgassist@uvic.ca with your ideas and we will do our best.
Volunteer Work Parties
This Week's Friday Work Party: 3:00-5:00pm.
Worker bee tasks:
- Seed starting
- Sheet mulching
- Bed prep
- Rebuild tool shed ramp
Volunteers get to bring home a portion of what we harvest on work party days.
Remember to bring a reusable bag or container to transport your veggies!
Upcoming Garden Events
Composting Basics
Friday, March 22, 2019, 3pm - 4pm
Campus Community Garden
Composting Basics & Building a Hot Compost Pile in the Garden!
In this workshop, we'll discuss what it takes to produce an amendment for your garden that is rich in beneficial microorganisms and nutrients! We'll discuss the factors that are necessary for composting success, and then together we'll get busy and build a hot compost pile using materials from the community garden.For more info, click here.
Spring Social
Friday, March 29, 2019, 6pm
Campus Community Garden
Check out or event page here. More details will definitely be flying your way soon!
Make your own Gardeners Hand Salve
Friday, April 5th, 2019, 4pm - 6pm
Campus Community Garden
Make a healing hand salve from spring plants. Learn about common spring plants can be used on the skin. Learn how to make an infused green oil. Take home your own beeswax salve: great for dry, chapped, working hands. For more info, click here.
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Growing and Saving Seeds From Native Plants
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Compost Education Centre
Victoria Public Library - Central Branch
Join us for an informative introduction to growing a variety of native plants from seed in your garden. Some discussion will also focus on practices for saving and sharing seed from native species. For more info, click here.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Rare Plants with James Miskelly
Thursday, March 21st, 2019 7pm- 9pm
Uvic MacLauren Bldg, Room D-288
The Victoria area is home to the highest diversity of vascular plants in BC, but this diversity isn’t always apparent in our natural areas. A lot of native plants are hiding in plain sight, while others are in decline or have already disappeared. What sorts of factors have resulted in such a high diversity of native plants, and what kinds of factors threaten this diversity? Are there species missing from our local parks and if so, how can we know which ones? For more info, click here.
Gardening for Garry Oak Ecosystems
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 1 pm- 3 pm
Compost Education Centre
Over the last 10,000 years Victoria’s dry climate and Indigenous land management activities have resulted in a unique array of plant species. Lucky for us, many of these are well-suited to home gardens and some are even drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and edible!
Participants will gain a better understanding of how gardening with native plants can help maintain local biodiversity, including the wildlife that depends on our native flora. This workshop will also give an overview of the great potential Victoria has in turning lawned areas to wildflower meadows. For more info, click here.
Happy Growing!
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