Skip to main content

Are You Coming to Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2017?

Image
By
Are you coming to Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2017

Its less than a week until the Ladner Community Garden Society and the Ladner United Church opens the doors for Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2017. We are still getting requests from vendors and I am working on different layouts to fit everyone in. It looks like we have the Kelpman and Mike and Sandy's Berry farm coming again this year.

Are You Coming to Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden expo 2017?

We have a wonderful lineup of speakers including Brian Minter, Gary Lewis, Shelley Levis and Mike Nugent. The presentations will be in the Ladner United Church's sanctuary and the vendors will be in the celebration hall. Entrance to the event is through the main doors at the front of the church.

Are You coming to Ladner Seedy Saturday & Garden Expo 2017

Parking is always a struggle to find in our small town as its free. Yes, free parking, imagine that. So if you can walk to the event that's great or if you are driving try to use the public parking lots located at the corner of Elliot street and Chisholm street, along the Ladner Memorial Park on 47 avenue and along 47A avenue. Parking in front of the church will be reserved for our speakers so they can haul their precious plants inside for you to buy. Parking in the business area of historic Ladner is limited to three hours but may be long enough for you to hear a speaker and visit the vendors.

The ladies of the church will have refreshments so you can grab a coffee or a sandwich as you browse the show. We look forward to having fun next Saturday and hope to see you there. This event is a fundraiser for the Ladner Community Garden Society so that we can help support school gardens in our community.
A big thanks goes to the Ladner United Church for hosting our event. We couldn't have done it without your support.



Labels

Labels:

Comments

  1. TeresaFebruary 19, 2017 at 8:07 AM

    What a great day! So many wonderful vendors- brought home lots of seeds and plants. Met inspiring people! Brian's talk was terrific-as always. Thanks Teresa Williams from the Hope Garden Club

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Its Official!

By
Its official. We finally received our incorporation papers. I know, what does that have to do with a community garden? Well you just don't start planting as we found out very quickly. You have to apply for a name for your society through the provincial government. First you apply for a name by checking trademarks and copyrights. Luckily Ladner Community Garden Society wasn't taken. You pay a fee for the name right away. The next step is applying for incorporation. You want to form a society and have directors as you can't lease public space without going through this process. Okay, another fee, a hundred dollars to be exact. Applying for incorporation is writing bylaws which can be painful at best if you want to write your own. Thank you Mark for doing such a wonderful job writing our bylaws. If you don't write your own, there are easier ways such as following out set bylaws as given in the Society Act. Our hard work as paid off as we received our red seal of approval ...
5 comments
Read more

Ladner Seedy Saturday is Only a Few Weeks Away!

By
Yes, it's time for Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2018. Our organizing committee is busy behind the scenes registering new and returning vendors, booking speakers and organizing the seed swap for the event. Are you a vendor wanting to come to Seedy Saturday? We still have a few tables left for lease. I am excited about our two speakers coming this year. Janis Matson is a well known garden speaker and owns Shoreline Landscape Design. Janis is an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley and also teaches classes at VanDusen Botanical Garden. Janis will be teaching us how to use ornamental grasses in the home garden. Our next speaker is Randal Atkinson. Known as West Coast Garden' s Plant Expert Extraordinaire, Randal is the go to person for design, plant selection, growing and care of plants. Randal is passionate about gardening and loves sharing his knowledge with the public. You can often see him teaching classes at West Coast Garden centre...
Post a Comment
Read more

May in the Ladner Community Garden

By
 Its been a busy spring at the Ladner Community garden. All our allotment beds are full and we have started a wait list for 2017. Can you believe that? Its only May. In fact if you want a garden bed at the community garden its best to apply in the fall. By the end of January we know if people will stay another year and which garden plots will be empty. Monday mornings have volunteers working on making this the best community garden. Red poppies have taken over the back corner of the garden and we have a few escapees further afar. I love how they sway in the breeze amongst the tall grass.   This allotment garden is not only maximizing the space allotted but the lettuce will love this shade from the large leaves nearby.  I am always amazed at how much you can grow in 40 square feet of soil.  Asparagus fronds reach to the sky in this garden. Its just about to flower and I wonder if collecting seed would be a good idea. I will have to ask the ...
2 comments
Read more