Greenways Trust Visit on June 25th

Terry shares his knowledge of micro-biology with demo Farm to School bed at the Tahsis Community Garden

Greenways Trust folk were in Tahsis last Sunday to tour the garden, see market stand 'the Local', enjoy lunch at Westview Marina, and learn about our Farm to School program. The day was capped off with a visit to the newly established Tahsis Farm.  

Many thanks to Karli and Aubrey for playing tour guides.   Have a look at  Tahsis Living Blogspot for a recap of the visit. 

1st Annual Summer Solstice Party

Many thanks to Karli for taking photographs at the Solstice garden party and for her blog post.  Have a look at

Tahsis Living 

to read the post and see more photos.  Tahsis Living is the 'go-to' page for everything Tahsis.    

Twenty-four people came out to welcome summer and share some lovingly prepared food.  We had a proper garden blessing, summery tunes, a nice fire kindled with blackberry brambles, and fair weather.  

photo credit:  K. Yanchus

A heartfelt thanks to the awesome volunteers who helped with setup and takedown.   Kudos esp to Rita and Blake who gave the grass a nice trim, cleaned up the chairs, and for donating the fireworks.  What a way to kick off summer!  

Summer Solstice Potluck June 20

Summer Solstice

Potluck Dinner

Tuesday, June 20th

@ 6:00 PM

Tahsis Community Garden

Garden Members & Guests
Come and celebrate the first day of Summer!

All members welcome and are welcome to invite guests to participate in our potluck. We will have a fire in the burn ring.  Remember that the garden is a Trash Free Zone, bring real plates/utensils vs. plastics and disposables. Bug spray highly recommended. 

TLS Mushroom Seminar this Sat 17 June

SORRY - THIS SESSION HAS BEEN 

CANCELLED

Greenways Trust Visit: Sunday, June 25

Representatives and guests of Greenways Trust will be visiting Tahsis the afternoon of Sunday, June 25th on behalf of the Strathcona Food Security network. 

Visitors will tour the Tahsis Community Garden, gain an understanding about the local F2S and Breakfast Club programs at CMESS, and learn about “The Local” market stand.  

It will be a great opportunity for networking and connecting with others about the challenges of food security in remote communities.  

For more information, please contact alanna@greenwaystrust.ca 

Second Mason bee house

At a farmers' market in Port Alberni, I found this Mason bee house for a ridiculously good price. Have put it up on the wishing well. Not sure if Mason bees return to their original house to lay eggs or if some will use this one. If not this year, maybe next. 

Drip Demo May 28th

"Another shout out to 

Terry, Silvie, Maureen & Mervin, Bill & Catherine 

for showing off the community garden today. 

Terry and Silvie for the hands on irrigation system 

demo in the greenhouse. I think the public has a 

better understanding of how it all goes together 

and the different watering options that are 

available depending on what you are growing. 

 I know I do. Great job everyone!!"

- Kim, TCGS President

Garden volunteers were on site Sunday to demo the drip irrigation system.  Thanks to everyone who came out and sincere thanks again to the Tahsis Literacy Society for funding the drip irrigation project.  

The community garden is looking neat and tidy - thank you Terry, Kim, Maureen, Merv, Pat and Jim for stepping up and getting this done the day before.  That's one great haircut! 

The various components of our greenhouse system. 

A hole is punched into the header line to connect either a feeder line for a drip spike, or a soaker line directed to individual plant roots.  

Once connected, this soaker line is laid out 

to direct water to Catherine's tomatoes. 

Terry is growing ginger and melons in the centre bed, 

let's revisit this garden effort in a few weeks! 

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Terry loops the soaker line around and Bill adds finishing touches to the bed. 

Locally milled cedar from Bill VS will be used

for the Farm to School garden upgrade - it smells wonderful.  

Next whole work project is the F2S beds. We have all the lumber and just waiting for a few more bolts to come in at Tahsis Building Supply. 

Terry will keep us all posted as to when he is ready for our hands on help.

Village administrator Janet stops by to check out our system and tour the garden.  Many thanks to Chuck St. Denis for providing all of these wonderful photographs.