Kitsilano Community Garden

September Seed Saving Workshop - thanks Neighbourhood Small Grants!

I think all who attended the Seed Saving Workshop on September 14th with David Catzel from Glorious Organics - was amazed at both the simplicity and intricacies of the seed saving world and it's importance to us. David was most inspiring and it would be wonderful to come up with some collective seed saving strategies for our garden. It was a great day!

Thanks again to the Neighbourhood Small Grants program and The Vancouver Foundation, from which we received the funding that made this workshop possible. Let's keep the momentum going and talk about some potential seed saving strategies and ideas at our upcoming AGM.

"Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth , and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat"

A wee video from our day

Gorgeous red lettuce seeds

Mouse melon cucumber Melothria scabra 1866 - seeds - 'gottim

Julie from the Neighbourhood Small Grants program - in attendance! (her Mom came too!)

September 2013 Work Party

Ahh... I guess we had a good run with the weather didn't we? No complaints. The fall weather has definately now come upon us. Sorry to have missed the September work party. Thank you Ellen for capturing these fabulous images from the day. Still lots to do in the garden - but it now requires gumboots and warm sweaters!!

Saturday, September 14th - Hands-On Seed Saving Workshop (free)

All are welcome to this free two-hour workshop coming up soon at our community garden -

Saturday, September 14th.

The public is invited along with all our garden members.

It will be a great opportunity to learn from a seed saving expert -

David Catzel from Glorious Organics Cooperative in Aldergrove.

Please R.S.V.P. by September 12th to: chloe.ernst@gmail.com

This Neighbourhood Small Grant project was funded by the Vancouver Foundation

and administered by Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.

Hope to see you there!

A few recent seed images from our garden:

Giant Thistle - seed head...

Thistle Seed - detail shot - for scale

Seed popping out of a thistle seed head

Love-In-The-Mist seed head...

Love-In-The-Mist seeds inside the seed head

Crocosmia seeds forming

2nd Inaugural 2013 Kits Garden Plant Sale - huge success!

Well, that was fun. The 2nd inaugural 2013 Kitsilano Community Garden Plant Sale. There were so many peeps that contributed to making this year's sale so successful. We added a significant amount to the garden coffers through our efforts - and exceeded last year's total profits! Besides the end goal of fund raising the great thing was getting to know each other better and having a lot of laughs. Here are a few images from our lovely day that were taken by a few of the plant sale crew. Well done everyone.