This week in Seemore Green, we had planned a composting workshop for Tuesday, but due to the Chebucto madness, we are going to postpone the workshop for a week, and head down to city hall for a celebration of Active Community.
This tuesday July 8th @ 5pm Grand Parade Square. There will be music and dancing. Wear yellow, bring your friends, bring your kids and LETS SHOW OUR COUNCIL WHAT WE VALUE FOR OUR FUTURE AND OUR COMMUNITIES.
On Wednesday, Jomni has been doing residential worm composting workshops. If you are interested, contact: micheljv (at) hotmail.com
On Saturday, at the Freeskool, David Greenberg is doing a talk “Looking at our food system, from tragic times to abundance for all”, at 3pm. Check the Freeskool site for info: http://halifaxfreeskool.wikispaces.com/
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2. So the July schedule now looks like this:
July 15th Urban Composting with Compostmeister Silas Magee. 5pm. July 19th. 24 hour zine extravaganza at Anchor Archive: we want to do a fleet of zines; we have topics, and need more ‘ziners. If you want to join in, email honeybee (at) nspirg.org July 22. Welcoming the Bees!!! How to have urban honeybees, the first of our new ongoing project and workshop series. July 29. Wildharvesting Walkabout; finding medicines and dye plants with Jayme and Brenna.
With all that talk about soil contamination and growing food, we figured we should get on learning more about it. We applied for $500 through NSPIRG, and seeing as this is truly an issue of Public Interest, we got the money. Attached is the outline of the project: basically we are going to do some research on 1) what is the soil contamination, 2) how does it affect growing food, 3) what do we do about it. We are also proposing to start a Soil Contamination Testing Fund to offer some financial aid for soil test. If anybody has any info to offer, sites to check, suggestions of people to talk to, please forward them on to Leslie – ls236198 (at) dal.ca Ted is offering to set up a blog for all this info; if you want to help him, email mycelium (at) nspirg.org.
Also, lovely Lis talked to the new College of Sustainability (though Dal) about creating a class to really get into this. It looks like the class will go ahead, and our little project will a be a community-building precursor. Stay tuned.
alrightie, add this one to your calendar of events.
@ the FREESKOOL saturday, july 12 2pm
David Greenberg “Looking at our food system, from tragic times to abundance for all”
Join organic farmer/activist David Greenberg in a dialog on food and farming. The focus of the evening will be on the big picture of the food crisis and actions we can take to manifest compassion and joy in eating and growing food.
sounds like a dozzie, you won’t want to miss it!
for more info and contacts visit the freeskool site
well, here’s another start to a new week. we just wanted to send a big shout out to the grainery for hosting a fantastic SLOF week and for inviting seemore green to be a part of the festivities!
we would also like to thank the folks who came out and helped to support our “seemore green bees” fund. we raised a little dough for the gals coming to joins us at the garden. come july, we’ll be welcoming the arrival of our very own honeybee colonies at seemore.
stay posted for the july schedule. we’ll have the dets on urbanbeekeeping 101 and other bee related workshops, the city root cellar workshop/discussion forum , and much more gardening!
here’s a list of the ingredients you’ll need to build your very own bike trailer:
plate steel (3″)
steel rod (6″)
electrical conduit
hitch (ball joint)
2x 20″ front wheels
2 bolts
a wing nut
2 nuts (with locktite optional)
we’re holding an info session at the garden (seemore green) on tuesday the 24th for all you who are interested and who have pressing questions for our panel experts.
at the session you’ll be able to put yourself on the email list for those who are dying for a trailer and who want info on when and where the welding party will take place.
come out and visit the garden and we’ll see you tuesday.\
Gypsophilia Dance Party! A Fundraiser for the Urban Garden Project
June 28th, The Marquee Club
Tickets $13 adv/$15 door
The Urban Garden Project looks to support and inspire food production,
community spaces and beautiful gardens in the city through a wide
range of activities. Show your support by circulating this email
Lost & Found (2383 Agricola St.)
Greenlyph (1078 Queen St.)
CD Heaven (118 Wyse Rd., Dartmouth)
Ecology Action Centre (2705 Fern Lane)
And all ticketpro locations.
alrighty, i wanted to introduce myself. i’m brenna. i’m the new garden coordinator and resident beekeeper working alongside jayme this summer. pleasure.
ok, now let’s jump right into the first big project for garden this month. tuesday the 17th from 5-7pm, come be apart of the Wooden Tapestry. we’ll be weaving the story of our garden into a wattle work fence. we’re going to need some busy hands, curious minds, and an active imagination to get this project done so everyone is welcome to come out and join us. perhaps, this may even inspire your very own woven structures throughout your space. feel free to harvest your own saplings, found alongside ditches and throughout old construction sites, to donate to the tapestry (be sure the wood is still green and supple).
