Two Beds and a Sign!

Thanks to the Arusha Centre's Take Action Grants and Timbertown, funding and materials were received to hire Patrick Sweet (top left in green) to paint a custom garden sign from a repurposed headboard and to add two new beds to the four built last year.

Thursday, 18th CANCELLED

Hey all,

Posting to inform that this Thursday, the 18th will be CANCELLED due to the weather. With all this snow on the ground, it just doesn't seem that sensible. The plan is now for next week, Thursday, April 25th. On the 25th we will put together the new beds and then plant some seeds.

New planting day
When: April 25th @ 7pm.
Where: Sunnyside Shared Garden
Bring: Friends, gloves, planting tools, warm drink

See ya out there,

kye 

First Planting Day April 18th 2012

Weather! What can I say, we live in the most capricious of environments where it can snow every month, and gardening is always ridiculed as some impossibility. But we know that isn't true. Sure, we can't have peach trees outdoors, but we certainly can grow a massive variety of produce from lettuces to tomatoes. Sunnyside Shared will begin this season with a planting day on April 18th, at 7pm. Because there are still several weeks which could potentially dip down to freezing, we are only going to be planting hearty tough plants like Kale and Spinach. The whole planting shouldn't take too long, but we'd love to see you out, and get a chance to meet some of the faces for Sunnyside's 2013 season. You've likely got some brilliant ideas that would benefit our season, so come throw down some little Kale seeds on April 18th and tell your community about them. And besides, afterwards, there's a good chance we'll go to The Royal Oak Tavern where there's delicious local beer and food.
Don't know where we are? Check the map below.

First Planting Day April 18th

Here's a video that I'm sure everyone in the food community has seen: basically it stands for everything we're trying to do, get food to people and grow it local. I want to post this video as a reminder of the power an individual has within their community. It's so easy to be discouraged by the poor political choices that inundate our lives by those in power; however, as Ron shows, we can all make change, massive change, but we need to commit to working together.

SunnySide Shared Garden hopes to bring our community tighter and open our communities eyes to the reality that we can control our own existence. Fortunately for us, Gardening is already cool as hell, everyone wants to do it, we just need to help provide awesome spaces for it to happen. That said, come meet us in the Garden Thursday, April 18th. Grab your shovel and get gangsta with some dirt. We'll be there from 7:00pm till it's done. And we'll likely go to Royal Oak tavern after, because you need to support local bars too.

Hope to see you there, 

Garden Meeting This Thursday (Mar. 21) @ 6pm

Well, Winter is almost about to wrap up. Likely we'll have a few more intense snow days, but we know that soon every cliche that comes with Spring (birds chirping, flowers popping) will be fast upon us. Obviously, for all of us gardeners, this is a highly energized time, and one that, retrospectively, always goes too quickly. Since Sunnyside Shared's last year, we've been quietly working on ways to expand our garden and provide more ways for more individuals to benefit from local produce. Aiming for punctuality, Sunnyside Shared will be hosting a potluck this Thursday to discuss our plans and expansions before Spring and Summer are completely upon us.

We invite anyone to join us, whether they be a constant gardener or a bumbling new one. Please come to 2102 5th Ave NW @6pm for a potluck and share in our garden planning. We'd like to discuss our aims for 2013, plans for expansion, what to plant and who will organize it, as well as a good method of communication for our fellow gardeners.  

Hope to see you there,

Sunnyside Shared

Ready to Garden in 2013!

Do you want to help expand the Sunnyside Shared Community Garden in 2013?

Help plan the year by emailing
sunnysideshared@gmail.com
or find out more about this and other Hillhurst-Sunnyside food sustainability from hscacommunityfood@gmail.com

A Growing Experience: Year One

It's been a great first year for the Sunnyside Shared Community Garden. From building the raised beds and composters to arranging watering, tending and harvesting. The summer culminated in residents of Calgary Housing in Kensington helping to harvest the produce.

If you'd like to get involved, drop us a line!