Trafalgar School Garden Work Party

What: Trafalgar School Garden Work Party part 2
When: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Trafalgar Elementary School
4170 Trafalgar Street
Vancouver, BC V5K 0A1

C ome and help the teachers, parents and other volunteers at Trafalgar Elementary School to implement the second phase of their permaculture school garden.  We will be sheet mulching and planting a cover crop around the 11 subirrigated planters that were built during the first work party (the green and pink areas in the diagram).  These areas will eventually become fertility beds (green) and host a wide diversity of nectary plants to attract and keep beneficial insects in the garden (pink).

The sheet mulch will be used as a soil remediation technique (the garden is being planted on a gravel field) in combination with soil loosening and ground cover planting.

The work party will be from 1pm to 5pm at the school.  Stay as long or short as you like.

We are also looking for the following tools and materials to build the sheet mulch and condition the soil.  If you have a tool or materials from the list below and would like to come help out, please bring it along!

Tools/Materials we need to build the sheet mulch:

- cardboard (especially from large boxes)

- newspaper

- utility knives

- garden forks

- work gloves 

Cob Workshops

There are a number of cob workshops up on the Natural Building
Vancouver meetup site.  The first of which is tomorrow.
http://www.meetup.com/Natural-Building-Vancouver/
The workshops will be hands-on, with a project using mostly local
dirt, and salvage as construction materials.  The pizza oven is in a
backyard, and intended for group meals and bulk cooking/baking.  (And
Yogurt!)

Food Forest Workshop

A quick shout out to GAIA students that Food Forester Richard Walker is returning to the island this September.
Visit the TESTIMONIALS of both alumni GAIA students and others who took his last course and find out why Richard's experience and information will provide you a wealth of knowledge and the inspiration to use it.
In just 3 days 18 of the 25 spots have been taken. Register soon to attend this class.
This will be the last Level 1 Food Forestry workshop of 2011 offered on island.
Look for the Level II course soon.

Langara Summer School on Building Community

Renew. Learn. Celebrate.
Learn skills, develop strategies, and create visions for sustainable communities, sustainable work, culture, ecology and more at Langara's annual Summer School on Building Community, Saturday, June 11 to Saturday, June 18. (Registration details below).

Workshops related to gardening, food and urban agriculture include:

Two Block Diet: Creating Community and Growing More Food (Monday, June 13, 7 - 9 pm)

Strawberry City: Rebuilding Fractured Communities through Food Security (Tuesday, June 14, 9:30 am-4:30 pm)

Composting Made Easy (Tuesday, June 14, 5:30 - 6:30pm)

Soil Fertility and Plant Health (Tuesday, June 14, 7- 9pm)

Telling Stories through the Act of Gardening (Wednesday, June 15, 1-5pm)

Backyard Chickens 101 (Wednesday, June 15, 7-9pm)

Bees in the City: An Introduction to Backyard Beekeeping (Thursday, June 16, 9:30am-12:30pm)

Winter Gardening and Harvesting (Saturday, June 18, 9:30am - 4:30pm)

I look forward you to seeing you at our Summer School!

Leslie Kemp
Coordinator

Register:
Please register by calling 604.323.5322

Information:
Please contact Leslie Kemp at 604-323-5981/ lkemp@langara.bc.ca or visit our Summer School website

Food Forest Workshop

Food Forest Gardening - Learn how people are changing their approach to gardening by mimicking the natural patterns of a forest ecosystem. You too can learn to design gardens for a more sustainable harvest. Discover tricks to reduce maintenance, reduce fertilizing requirements, increase biodiversity and increase productivity in gardens of any scale. This workshop will include both a lecture and hands on experience. - This course is usually priced at $150 but is part of a fundraiser... suggested donation $40

St. Mary's Hall

121 Columbia Street East - Rear Hall

New Westminster

Saturday, July 9 · 10:00am - 4:00pm