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. *** 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 by putting [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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