Mt. Lorne Community Announcement

Welcome to the Garden! 2015

 

A  seasonal approach to hands on gardening skills that will help you grow food.

 

Rent a garden bed at a local farm- and learn to grow.

 

Join long time Yukon organic gardener, Shiela Alexandrovich at her Wheaton River Gardens on Annie Lake Road for seven half day workshops that will give you seasonal experience and confidence to get growing.

Shiela will provide 125’x30’ beds for participants to use. Therese are to be started from scratch, in and area that has had 2 years of green manure. She will provide watering and frost protection as needed. Participants

will take home the produce grown , and have the knowledge to store  and preserve food for the winter .

 

Cost for the rental of one raised bed – and all the produce that grows there will be yours…

$ 75.00 for full season

 

This includes the education provided by Sheila  as well as seeds and bedding plants and all other materials as needed.

This workshop will have space for 6-8 people and will cover the following outline, realizing that weather may re-arrange our schedule for us!

 

All workshops are   1pm to 4:30, on Sundays.

 

·         May 17                 orientation, bed planning, seed choices, bedding plants

                               ( starting, time and care) and basic organics

·         May 24                 making raised beds, organic  amendments, various planting styles, hoops and

                               covers – Prepping and planting - Ready…GO!

·         June 14                eating weeds, thinning, compost/manure teas, top dressing, early harvest

·         June 28                harvest, thin, weed, succession planting, maintenance

·         July 19                 thinning, weeding, fermented  pickles, drying, teas (weeds, wild, planted)

·         Aug 16                 harvest, prep for storage, pickling, seed saving,

·         Sept 6                  final root harvest , root storage, putting things to bed

 

This Program made possible with support from Yukon Agriculture Branch -  Growing Forward 2

                                                             

Wheaton River gardens are located at km 24 Annie Lake Road- please follow the signs.

limited seating – register soon !!

 

 

Contact Agnes at :

lmca@northwestel.net                                              

or ph 667 7083 

2015 Garden Season Sign Up

Hi Everyone,

It's that time of year again. The annual garden sign up will be at the Whitehorse Food Bank at 306 Alexander Street on April 11th from 12-2pm.
Fees are as follows:
$20 bed deposit (not necessary if you are a returning gardener from 2014)
$20 annual membership fee
$5 shed key deposit (not necessary if you already have one from 2014)

We'll see you there!

2014 AGM

DUGS will be holding its 2014 AGM on January 14th, 2014 at 7:00 pm at 504 Cook Street (Upstairs Mary House). There will be a potluck and social at 6:00pm to lead into the meeting. Anyone is welcome.

2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation and Harvest Social

Join us for the 

2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation and Harvest Social 

at the Whitehorse Community Garden on Wednesday, August 20th.

 It is a potluck affair from 6pm to 8pm.
Everyone is welcome!

Bring a dish if you wish and share your recipe! Good food, good fun! Hope to see you there!

Canada Garden Days

Come celebrate “Canada Garden Days in Yukon” at the Whitehorse Community Garden on Saturday, June 14th, 1-3 pm. Join us for a garden tour and a potluck social. Food donations for the Whitehorse Food bank are welcomed. Watch for posters on the garden notice boards. For more information contact 633-4379 or visit http://gardendays.ca/

2014 Garden Sign Up

Hello All!
Spring is on its way and that means time to sign up for your plot at the Whitehorse Community Garden for the 2014 growing season.
The sign up is scheduled for Saturday, April 5th from 12-2pm at the Whitehorse Food Bank. The cost for new members is $45.00 ($20 annual membership, $20 bed deposit and $5 key deposit) and the cost for returning members is $20.00 (annual membership). All gardeners are expected to give 12 hours of volunteer work back the garden.

As always, sign up is first come, first serve and each gardener is allowed to sign up for one plot only. Those gardeners whose volunteer hours are in good standing and wish to return, are given first choice and preference to their existing plots or a new plot if they choose to move. Bed assignment will not happen until the beginning of May and we will keep you posted on that.

Any questions can be directed to me, Kathryn, at dugsyukon@hotmail.com.

I look forward to seeing you all!

Kathryn

End of Season

As another gardening season is about to wrap up, I'd like to send out a few reminders...

Work Bees
The Wednesday night work bee will continue for the rest of September. The weather has been holding out fairly well, so for the sake of the food bank deliveries if it continues to do so by the end of the month, I may add an extra one into October. We're losing our light rather quickly now so they will likely be abbreviated. I will be holding one last Saturday work bee on September 28th from 10-2pm. This is just a final chance to make up for any of the 12 hours you were not able to put in and we'll be concentrating on end of season tasks. Putting barrels away, hoses, compost etc. The City will likely turn the water off this week as well.

Plot Cleanup
If you are not planning to return next year and would like to get your bed deposit back, you must clean out your plot completely. Remove your vegetables or any weeds that may be left in the plot and turn the soil. This must be done and I must be notified by September 30th in order to get your $20 deposit back. Those who plan to return and stay in the same plot may leave their plot until the spring if they wish. Those who plan to return but would like to change plots are asked to clean their plots by the end of the season.

Compost
A reminder to put your weeds in the weed compost. Anything else from your garden can go in the regular compost. The more we can get in the pile this fall, the more compost we'll have for the beds in the spring! Anyone who would like to drop off their compost at the garden over the winter is more than welcome to do so.

Water Jugs
Some of you have been taking advantage of Russell's offer of old water jugs from Yukon Springs to use as planters. He would like me to pass on that he will have more, between 25 and 100, for the next work bee on September 18th. First come, first serve.

Greenhouse
If you used the greenhouse this year, please clean out your containers and take them home. I don't mind if you store your containers in the greenhouse as long as they are cleaned out, stacked neatly and clearly marked with your name.
On a container note, anyone with extra containers or cloth or any other 'accessories' for your plot, please put these away neatly and so they don't blow out of the plot over the winter.

Plant a Row
This year has been a great year for the Plant a Row program. We've taken approximately 478lbs of vegetables to the food bank to date! Our biggest season so far. Our goal is 500lbs so anyone with veg to spare let me know or meet us on one of the last two Wednesdays when we do the collection. A big thank you to all that have made their donations. Big and small, every little bit counts!

I think that's it for now. I have some updates that I still need to post in regards to the on goings of this past summer. I'll get to them yet. Until then, I hope this post finds everyone well and warm. -k.