July 8 -postponements & schedule

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 [...]

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seemore’s july calendar

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June schedule!

Seemore Green Calender for June.
Meeting point for all events: Seemore Green- behind 1411 Seymour Street, unless noted.
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June 3 (bike week):  guerrilla gardening bike ride to see community gardens;  bring your bike.  make some seed bombs if you can and lets ride around checking out gardens.  Meet at 5pm at Seemore Green, we will leave [...]

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Earth Day activities

Earth Day 2008:  2 Dirty Events
April 22.

Creative Containers workshop at the Dal women’s Centre garden, 1-4pm. Potluck style: bring some local-organic nibblies if you can.
For the workshop: you bring the containers (cups, pots, blenders, barrels… garbage night scavenging starts getting good these days!).
We have the worm castings, soil, seeds, and some little [...]

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september

Back to school… the city floods with folks… the tomatoes are beginning to topple…
So September. The Thursday evening garden parties continue.

Tonight (the 6th) from 6-7, I will do a little workshop on saving seed, by request. I am passionate on this subject, believing it is a critical part of our relationship to [...]

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solar dehydrator making workshop

INVITATION TO A
solar dehydrator building workshop*
Learn how, why, and build your own in a free collective workparty.
When: saturday, aug 11, starting at 11:00 am.
Where: Ecology Action Centre (2705 Fern Lane, Halifax)
Who: YOU!
~ And Jayme Melrose, coordinator of SeeMore (Seymour) Green Collective Garden, NSPIRG,
~ And Wayne Groszko, renewable energy coordinator at the Ecology Action [...]

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rainbarrels, part 1: a half-tonne of water

On Saturday we created a water collection system that will hold a half -tonne of rainwater. (All we need now is the rain.)

So I knew that a garden needs water, and a good rain collection system would be a much loved resource in future. I got a hold of some perfect barrels [...]

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this week, July 7 -12

Ah, rain.
The EAT YER WEEDS! session with Savayda Jarone was postponed due to the delicious deluge.  We have re-scheduled for next Thursday, July 12,  same time -6:30pm, same place.  And I repeat, do come out;  this knowledge set is some of the most paradigm-shifting, re-connecting, and empowering wisdom attainable in two free hours.
Saturday July 7.  [...]

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this week (Jun 18-23)

In the garden this week:
- sometime Tues or Wed evening:  Shane the carpenter is going to help us raise and strengthen the fence so that we can trellis grapes on it.
-Thursday evening:  5:30 – 6:30  planting and doing.
6:30 – 8:30  *Gardening 101*
Get a grounding in gardening basics.  Planting, transplanting, soil care, mulching, watering!  Perfect for [...]

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