Now is Your Chance Canmore! Let’s Make this Garden Grow!

We’ve applied to the Aviva Community Fund for the Community Garden at the Hospital.

Now it's your turn!

Vote for this garden

Tell your friends! Tell your neighbours! Tell your family!

Follow the simple steps below

Deadline for voting is Nov. 26th!

To vote, copy and paste this link into a new browser window: https://www.avivacommunityfund.org/users/registration

1. Register with Aviva. Aviva will send you a confirmation email, go back to your email and follow the link.
2. Log into Aviva.
3. follow this link to the Garden http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf9629
4. Then, VOTE!
You can vote once a day for 10 days.

Spread the word!
Please post the link onto your Facebook or Twitter pages, and forward this email to your friends!
With your help, we can make this garden grow!

Thanks for your support!

Backyard Food Forest

From lawn to backyard food forest...

Our Permaculture transition workshop has been a great success!  

 We met, we planned, we dug!...hauled, cleared, measured, leveled, and mulched!

About 25 people participated in major earthworks last Saturday, digging and installing a rainwater irrigation system, and transforming this lawn into fertile garden beds, in preparation for planting next spring.

Lots of laughs and inspiration, new friends, and great design concepts were shared.

Swales - in ground trenches designed for rainwater collection, were dug and leveled throughout the future garden, allowing collected water to seep slowly into the adjacent garden beds, watering the plants from the bottom up in a low-maintenance, low-tech, natural irrigation system.

Next we laid sheet mulch consisting of  layers of cardboard,  coffee grounds, fallen leaves, grass clippings, fish emulsion, horse manure and the top soil that had been dug out of the swales.  This "lasagna layering" of carbon and nitrogen components will slowly decompose over the fall and spring to build up our garden's soil, as well as smothering out the grass that once covered the ground.

But the work is not done yet! 

Join us this Sunday, October 10th for another permaculture work party in conjunction with the 350.org global climate change event!

We will be filling our swales with gravel turning them into pathways as well as a water catchment system, laying more sheet mulch, installing our rain barrels, seeding cover crop and planting our perennial food forest!  Saskatoon berries, currants, blueberries and strawberries...mmmm...!

Permaculture Workshop and Backyard Blitz

Permaculture Workshop and Backyard Blitz

Join the CCGS for a 

two-day Permaculture Design Workshop and Backyard Blitz 

with Adrian Buckley of Big Sky Permaculture

  

DAY 1: September 25, 2010

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Introduction to permaculture design principles and engage with hands-on design processes.Participants will be a part of a design team that will help turn a Canmore backyard into a food forest.

DAY 2: Saturday October 2, 2010

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Take what you have learned from Day 1 and do a Backyard Blitz, transforming a backyard into a food forest.

Workshop fee: $30
Space is limited so register soon!
Register by emailing canmorecommunitygardening@gmail.com. 
You will need a cheque of $30 dollars to secure your spot by September 20, 2010 (this fee is refundable if the event is canceled, however, the fee is non-refundable for no-shows).

Welcome to the Canmore Community Gardening Website

The Canmore Community Gardening Society (CCGS) is a group that reflects a ‘growing’ interest in vegetable gardening in Canmore. Following on the heels of a 2009 meeting on community gardening in Canmore that saw over 40 participants, an enthusiastic group of community members has recently established a Board of Directors, and incorporated the CCGS  as a non-profit society.

We are currently pursuing a variety of community gardening opportunities in Canmore, and are committed to facilitating a vibrant network of community gardens that allows Canmore residents to grow their own food and strengthen community ties. In the meantime, we're trying to build community. 

Want a garden? Try our doing a backyard share!