Migration!

Like the birds, the Community Garden Facebook Page is migrating to a private Group.  

The intent is to make it more inclusive, so gardeners in Tahsis can share their challenges and successes.  It is not limited to active members of the Society, anyone with an interest in gardening is welcome to join.  

All that is asked is that posts are garden related, and interactions kept positive and respectful.  If you are on social media, please visit Tahsis Community Garden Group and join us.  The existing facebook page will be taken down on March 14, 2020.  

Other news:  The garden society's Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday, March 8th at 2 pm, followed by a Seedy Sunday.  Please bring seeds, seedlings or anything gardeny that you want to swap with other gardeners.  Many thanks to the Tahsis Seniors Society for letting us use their wonderful venue. 

Upcoming:  Comox Strathcona Waste Management will be hosting a presentation regarding the Organics Diversion (composting!) Pilot Project for Tahsis on Saturday, April 18th.  This will be a one year pilot project.  Please save the date if you are interested in participating in the pilot and/or learning more.  This pilot project is open to all Tahsis residents, and more information will be provided in March.  

January General Meeting Jan 13 @ 7 pm

The first general meeting of 2020 is on January 13th, 7 pm at the Seniors Centre. Please see your email dated January 7th for the agenda and minutes from the last meeting.  Thanks all! 

Fall Clean Up Sunday, Sept 22

Fall Clean up at the Garden this Sunday, 10 AM. Bring a bagged lunch and drinking water, tools/gloves.  

A general meeting is planned during our lunch break regarding the Remote Facilities Composting Pilot Program.  

Please see your email for information regarding the pilot program.

Presentation Nov 6: Community Composting Initiative

Rita Dawson, Vice President of the Tahsis Community Garden Society is presenting at the upcoming VOT council meeting.  

'Proposal for a Community Composting Initiative'

Rita Dawson, VP TCGS

Village of Tahsis

Council Meeting

Tuesday, November 6th at 7 pm

Municipal Hall

All members are encouraged to attend in support, with the added bonus of seeing the swearing in of our newly elected  Mayor and Council. 😃

Thank you Rita for the hours of research in pulling this together.

Spring Work Party

All Members - it's time to clean up our community garden for the season.  Any and all help sincerely appreciated. :)

  

Organic Compost Delivered ⛟

Today the Tahsis Community Garden Society took delivery of about 24 yards of excellent, organic compost from the Comox Valley Regional District.  This black gold is Net Zero Waste compost.  Many thanks are in order:   

• Mark Tatchell and Janet St. Denis of the Village of Tahsis who brought the availability of free organic compost from CRVD to the Society's attention.  
• Stephanie Vidal of the Comox Valley Regional District who provided so much information and arranged it so we could pick it up on a day outside the normal time frame.  
• Rita Dawson, for working her magic with Carla of Tahsis Farm to coordinate the delivery of a sample load, for securing tarps and prepping the site, and stepping in as Event Photographer.  
• Tahsis Farmers Carla and Josh for bringing in the first sample load.  
• Kim Anderson, who spent hours on the phone searching for a trucker willing to load up and transport the compost all the way from Cumberland to Tahsis, and for handling the hire and ultimate delivery. 
• Silvie Keen, who roped in all the email and coordinated with CVRD to arrange the pick up amount and date, got the word out to members and made sure that Gary Markus Trucking got a cheque!
• Gary Markus Trucking, who towed the load and the trailer from Cumberland across the island and up and over 'the top' to our remote village.  
• Terry Fassbender, who rallied from the sick bed and helped guide in the truck and unload.  
• To everyone who has pledged and/or paid a contribution towards the trucking costs. (Please drop your contribution to Silvie, Kim or Maureen - you know where to find us)

And a special thanks to volunteers who came out today with a message from our garden President, Kim Anderson:   

Everything went off without a hitch today. The compost is here!  I wanted to send a huge shout out to those of you that were able to help out in the garden today! Thank you!  Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it today there is still lots to do!

Also a gentle reminder that we will be prioritizing where the compost goes so please do not take any for your personal bed. We will need all hands on deck when the times come to allocate it.

An extra special Thank You to all the Blackberry Slayers today!  I feel like I had body piercing from head to toe, so prickly!  Even Dan from across the street pitched in and whacked away at those suckers!

Thanks again everyone for a great day in the garden!

Here comes the truck!  

Happy! 

Approaching the back gate

Bringing in the payload

Juanita finds a prime vantage point

First Drop

Is that Kim in the back?

Black Beauty

and off he goes! 

The Composters

A HUGE thank you to Master Gardener Terry for putting in volunteer time to reconfigure the composters. Terry has added a third bin and shifted them around for a more efficient system.  It's as easy as 1-2-3. 

1. Please put garden waste into the first bin (on the left), this is for our 'green' material.  Please add only to the first bin - Terry has made it easy and pretty much fool proof.
2. When it is full, the materials will be moved to the middle bin to 'cook'. 
3. Finished compost will go into the bin on the far right.  

Remember that NO buttercups, dock or other noxious weeds are to be placed in the garden composters.  Ditto for meat/fish as we don't want to attract animals.