Hi everyone,

Sorry for duplicate emails, but the info below may be of interest to your gardeners.  The Saskatoon Food Bank Garden Patch is hosting a series of garden-based workshops this summer (details below).  These are all free and open to the public.  The Garden Patch is located on the 900 block of 3^rd Avenue North.  If you would like more information you can check out their website here: http://www.saskatoonfoodbank.org/urban-agriculture-the-garden-patch/.

 

1. Planning a Garden – Friday June 2^nd @ 6:30pm-8:30pm
2. Intro to Composting – with the Compost Coaches – Saturday June 10^th @ 12:30pm-2:00pm
3. Small Space/Container Gardening – with Hannah Gass and Grant Wood – Wednesday June 14^th @ 6:00pm-8:30pm
4. Static Pile Workshop – Saturday June 24^th @ 12:30pm-2:30pm
5. Kitchen Scrap Propagation – Friday July 7th @ 6:30pm-8:30pm
6. Plant Diseases, Illnesses, and Solutions – Saturday July 15th @ 2:00pm-4:00pm
7. Bokashi Composting – with the Compost Coaches – Saturday July 22nd @ 12:30pm-2:30pm
8. Insects: Friend or Foe (KIDS EVENT) – Saturday August 8^th @ 12:00pm-2:00pm
9. Insects: Friend or Foe (ALL) – Saturday August 8^th @ 3:00pm-5:00pm
10. Compost Tumbler Workshop – with the Compost Coaches – Saturday August 12^th @ 12:30pm-2:00pm
11. Vegetable Storage and longer lasting produce – with Adrian Werner – Thursday August 17th @ 7:00pm-9:00pm
12. Vermicomposting – with the Compost Coaches – Saturday August 28th @ 12:30pm-2:30pm
13. Save Seeds with the Saskatoon Seed Library – Wednesday September 13th @ 7:00pm-9:00pm

 

 

Jessie Best

Urban Agriculture Coordinator

CHEP Good Food Inc.

Suite #204-1120 20^th St. West, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0Y8

p    306-655-4575 ext.229   f  306-668-4574

e    jessie@chep.org

w   http://www.chep.org/en/programs/community-gardens

CHEP Good Food Inc. acknowledges that we operate on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis Nation