Free! 100,000,000 Seeds

Bring Back the Bees!  Honey Nut Cheerios continues its work on creating a bee friendly world by offering free Vesey's wildflower seeds to Canadians.  Get a packet of free wildflower seeds in the mail, click on the link to learn more.  

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

The Farm to School garden plot needs to be prepared for Spring planting for the school’s soup and salad program. 

This will involve moving soil with shovels and a wheelbarrow, and some simple carpentry. Raised beds will be oriented for optimum sun exposure and one bed will be dedicated as a perennial Asparagus Patch.  Forty five asparagus crowns are coming sometime in March, so we could really use some help. 

Community members, older students or parents who are able to pitch in and help for a half day, please call Terry Fassbender at 6460. A strong back is helpful. Terry will coordinate a (sunny) day that works for everyone. 

And, a heartfelt thanks to Karli Yanchus, Tahsis Farm to School Coordinator, for providing funds for the F2S asparagus crowns.

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2017 and a New Garden Year!  

Next monthly meeting is on 

Wed. January 25th at 7:00 pm

Tahsis Seniors' Centre  

The Society will be wrapping up membership renewals and getting ready for another great year of gardening.

Thanks to all our awesome members who have donated their time and efforts in making our 

Community Garden a success.  

Exciting New Music Label and Collective in Tahsis

There is now a music label and collective based in Tahsis...please join me in welcoming and congratulating  the artists of Nootka Sounds!

Here is the Nootka Sounds website, and follow the instructions to receive the newsletter here:  newsletter sign-up

Photo from the Nootka Sounds website

 

PAC Christmas Bazaar November 27

Work Party - Fall Clean-up Date Change to October 30th

Time to tidy and tuck in - winter is coming! 

Work Party - Fall Clean-up

Sunday, October 30, 2016

10 am til 3 pm  

Please bring work gloves, your favourite garden tools, 

a paper bag lunch and something to drink. 

photo by Karli Yanchus

Mason Bee Update

Today was the final stage for the Mason bees life cycle. I took the larvae out of the hive and washed off the light cement-like covering. The directions warned there may be mites but there were none in sight. They are now drying before I put them into boxes and store them in the refrigerator crisper until spring blossoms appear. 

We had purchased 30 bees and those bees produced 56 larvae. No idea how many will hatch in the spring.