Pallet Garden Building: Monday July 18 6-8pm @ the garden
(free for members - otherwise $20)
Learn to build a beautiful garden out of recycled materials... a perfect herb garden for your balcony! Hands-on learning, and find out where to get free material for your own!
Wild & Edible Herb Walk - With Blaine Andrusek : Sunday July 24, 9am-5pm
($70 members/$80 non-members)
A day-long excursion with master herbologist Blaine Andrusek whose colourful stories will guide us through traditional and medicinal uses of the many edible plants in our valley lending indigenous insight and cultural flavour to our understanding of the wilderness around us.
Soil Building Session: Tuesday August 2, 6-8pm @ the garden
(free for members - otherwise $20)
What makes good garden soil? Learn about the basic components of healthy soil and how we can build it! We'll explore various methods of composting - with worms and otherwise, mulching, cover-cropping, green manuring, and compost tea!
Garden Party - Potluck-style: Saturday August 13 @ the garden 5pm - 9pm
Full Moon Celebration and Open Garden! Come celebrate and experience the garden in it's abundance, and to dance and have fun! Bring a dish to share with a list of ingredients, your drums, your hoops, and your smiles!
Canning & Preserving with Jenn Chic : Saturday September 10 - 10am-4pm
( $100 members, $120 non-members including supplies)
Learn the simple art of preserving summer bounty! Whether making jam or pickles, drying herbs or freezing pesto, making your own tea blends or dehydrating food for the backcountry, Jenn will demonstrate simple and practical methods for your own kitchen, and then students will roll up their sleeves to make batches of jam and hot pack pickles to take home!
Contact canmorecommunitygardening@
to register for our summer programming!
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