Ladner Community Garden

I hope you have all marked your calendars. Seedy Saturday is not far away. Vendor registrations are rolling in and this is looking like it will be a fun family event. We will be having gardening displays and speakers, educational displays, seeds, seeds and more seeds, plant specialists and interactive displays for the children. I hope you can attend. If you are a vendor and would like to attend, please shoot me an email to deltagardener@dcccnet.com and I will send you a registration package. This will be a great way to kick off the new garden season of 2012. Did you know we are the first Seedy Saturday south of the river here in Delta? I cant wait to see what new garden trends are coming!

I am so blessed to live in this community of Delta. Starting this community garden project , I had no idea what resources were out there and have relied heavily on input from other community gardens. It has been a learning experience for all the board members of the garden. I would like to acknowledge some of our sponsors who truly believed in this project. One particular company I met at the Ladner Business Association. They asked if they could write us a cheque after hearing how much our start up expenses were. Bruce and Paula Lloyd of Cellular Mobile Services donated enough money to cover our insurance and paperwork costs. Yes, insurance, one of those things a lot of us don't think about when we walk in our city parks. A big thank you from all of us at Ladner Community garden. We also worked with the Corporation of Delta who spent thousands of dollars extending an existing water line to the front of our garden and arranging for some donated compost. In two days all our allotme...