Just Two Days to Go!

Just two days to go until Ladner Seedy Saturday and Garden Expo 2015! We are excited to be bringing this event to the gardening community.
Here is a list of the vendors you will meet at our event this weekend. Join us on both Saturday and Sunday for some garden fun. For directions to our event just click here. Our event runs from 10-3 on both days. There is lots of parking and food trucks will be on site for lunch and coffee. Thanks again to our sponsors who have been a huge part of bringing this event to Delta. The Corporation of Delta, Windset Farms, Vancity and West Coast Seeds have allowed us to make this event the best ever.

Cottage Pantry Gourmet Edibles
The Kelpman
Woodchips
Sand Dollar Design
Evergreen Garden Club
Photos by Kurtis
Urban Bee Supplies
Ladner Community Garden
Tatiana’s Tomatobase
Bartlett Tree Experts
BC Eco Seed Coop
Seeds of Diversity
J & J Enterprises
Y-Grip Tool
Bee Conscious
Simply Neglectable
VanDusen Master Gardeners
Westham Island Herb farm
Laughing Swan Farm
Water Wikka
West Coast Seeds
Windset Farms
Usana Health Services
Mike & Sandy’s Berry Farm
International Basket Booster
Salt Spring Seeds
Wild Ginger Designs
Corporation of Delta

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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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