Ladner Community Garden-Being Thankful

We would like to thank all our volunteers at the community garden for all they have done this year. From building a fence and arbor to painting and helping with garden classes, so much has been accomplished. Its been a busy building year and we are going into 2014 with less to do. We will be focusing on planting some new gardens and getting our herb spiral built.

Thanks to those who attended our Christmas party. It was nice to have such great conversation. That's what community is all about.
As we go into the new year, we will be looking for a few new directors. If you have some time to spare, we meet a few times each year to organize potluck dinners and work parties. In order to keep our garden going we need five directors so if you can help out, we would be very happy to have you on board.

This past season was a very abundant one at the garden. We had peas and beans growing like crazy and at times it was hard to keep up with the harvest.

The grade three class had success growing radishes, kale, arugula and spinach in the fall and they will return to the garden in late February. Thanks to our master gardener, Donna, Lynn, Gail and Janice for all the help they have been. You cannot teach 40 children without volunteers.
We are pleased to announce that Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2014 has been scheduled for Saturday, February 15,2014. It will be held at Ladner Baptist Church from 10am-3pm. We have three wonderful speakers to get you excited about the new garden season.

Brian Minter From Minter Country Gardens will be speaking on 'Food Gardens', Julia Common will be sharing her talk about Hives For Humanity and Ian Tait from Feed the Bees will give us information on how to bring bees back into our gardens. With a lineup like this, you will want to stay the whole day. We have many vendors already booked for the event selling seeds, services and garden treasures.
If you would like to volunteer on Seedy Saturday, give me a call or comment below. If you are a vendor and interested in coming to our event you can email at deltagardener at dccnet.com
Have a wonderful holiday season!

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Its Official!

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

Growing Your Own Food

Carrot harvest Growing your own food just became even more important than ever. As prices increased this fall we saw lettuce and cauliflower go up in price. Reasons for that are many but the drought we had could be one of the reasons. Overall the transportation costs of everything are up due to the high cost of fuel and that's being passed on to the consumer. Of course, many of us are not earning any more than we did before. I predict that 2023 will see another resurgence of food growing like we did at the beginning of the pandemic. Some of us may be doing it with less space than we had before so that creates more challenges. Just to let you know how popular gardening has become, our community garden has a waitlist of over twenty people. They may not get a spot in the garden for several years. It's probably time for a new community garden to be set up in the community. To save money in the winter think about growing crops that store well like carrots, potatoes, win

Ladner Seedy Saturday is Only a Few Weeks Away!

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

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