Special Thanks

Thank you Paul for volunteering your time and mowing the garden grass.

Not only does Paul mow, but last weekend I found him at the garden with his generator, to run his whipper snipper around the edges!

 Janet, Paul's better half (and our society vice-president) was busy today trasplanting some good looking cukes and planting onions!

Strathcona Food Security Project

Last Saturday, we were lucky to have a visit from Cynthia Bendickson, the co-ordinator of the Strathcona Food Security Project.  Cynthia enjoyed her tour of the garden and expressed her admiration for our successful community garden, and school meal programs.  Cynthia hosted an open house and an inspiring discussion about food security issues in Tahsis.

2 websites to check out:
 
The Strathcona Food Security Project website, with schedules of open houses and the reports to read:
Strathcona Food Security Project

A new blog which will be a great resource for everyone concerned with food security issues in and around Tahsis:
Food Security Tahsis

After a long blogging hiatus

Spring is Sprung, and I'm starting to chronicle the Tahsis Community Garden's events again.  There has been a lot of activity lately, and this will be our best year ever.  Almost every bed has been started and all our members are excited about what we've planted so far.

CMESS works in the Garden

The whole school came out to the garden to work on the school bed.  They dug potatoes (3 boxes full!), picked blackberries (with the understanding that at some point blackberry crumble would be on the Breakfast Club menu), gathered seeds for next year, harvested herbs for drying for seasoning and tea, cut back tough weeds and brambles, and moved around some compost.  I've said it before, we have the best kids in BC.  They worked in the hot sun cheerfully alongside their teachers and aides, and everyone enjoyed the zucchini chips, beet chips, kale chips, and cucumber slices that Traci brought for snacks.  She led the group through the work making it fun and interesting for everyone.

Quinoa ready to harvest

Traci's veggies

Our lush garden, check out the height on the sunflowers!

The cob oven is getting an addition, a doorway hood.

The school kids

They dug right in, literally.

One of the special things about a K-12 school is that all the kids work together and look out for each other, even with vast age differences.  Here's a team that\s a grade 2 and a grade 12.  

Snack time

Percy and his human Juanita happened to visit the garden at the same time as the children, and Percy was SO HAPPY to see everyone.  

 

The Garden in August

This summer has been beautiful for our garden.  Vibrant and healthy!

The Garden in July

So many successful gardeners growing interesting delicious foods this year!

Flowers in July

We are fortunate in Tahsis to have such lovely flowers in and around our garden.  The colours and fragrances are quite the draw for gardeners and bees.  (and photographers!)