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Community Garden Volunteer Day Tuesday July 24

Posted in Community Garden on July 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hello gardeners!
Quick reminder about the Volunteer Day 5:15 tomorrow – please come out!  Kids, neighbours, friends – everyone welcome to join in and get your hands dirty!  The team will be plainting blueberries, laying some hay (to help with moisture retention), adjust the tomato stakes and week some invasives that have sprung up near the boxes.
We’re also looking to set a Gardens BBQ date for sometime in August. More details to come.
Cheers,
Jenn
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Jenn Bogwald

YPN Community Gardens 

The Young Professionals of Nanaimo
PO Box 291 Stn A, Nanaimo BC V9R 5K9
gardens@ypnanaimo.com
www.ypnanaimo.com

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Community Garden Update

Posted in Community Garden on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hello Gardeners!

Spring is in the air and we’re looking forward togetting out on site (when it’s not raining or snowing..).   We have plots available for lease – $30 for the year – please email us at gardens@ypnanaimo.com to make arrangements.  Everyone welcome to join, so tell your neighbours and friends!

Also please mark your calendars for the following Vounteer Days where we will be following our planting schedule for the foodbank plots.  As the maintenance of these plots are all done by volunteers we hope to see you out – even if you only have a few miuntes, we would love to see you!  The Volunteer Days are also it’s a chance to help share your gardening expertise with the other gardeners – or learn from other gardeners!

  • Wedneday April 4th – 4pm  THIS WEEK!
  • Wednesday April 18th – 5pm (note new time going forward)
  • Wednesday May 2nd – 5pm
  • Wednesday May 16th – 5pm
Finally, If you haven’t checked out the Turner Rd garden yet and want to see how it’s progressing, please come by during the North Garden Open House Friday April 13th 3-5pm – bring a non-perishable food item for donation to the foodbank, come help plant the foodbank plots and get to meet some fellow gardeners!
See you on site,

Jenn & Andre

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Community gardener grows her own and helps feed others

Posted in Community Coming Together, Community Garden, Neighbourhood Flavour on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Krista Bryce, The Daily News

Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Despite a substantial harvest of home grown food from her small backyard garden, Courtney Simpson eagerly selected a sunny plot at the South End Garden when it opened last year.

Click on headline link to read the rest of the article.

And just an FYI…there are still plots available for lease, $30 per year, email gardens@ypnanaimo.com if you’re interested!

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South End Community Garden UPdate

Posted in Community Garden, Uncategorized, untagged on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hello Gardiners,

Thank you to all who came out a couple Saturday’s ago. It was nice to see so much progress. I wanted to share with you some plans for the south end garden.

1)      We want to start a regular volunteer work days at 4 on Wednesdays (gets dark at 5:45). Come any Wednesday you can make. Our goals are to finish the last beds  and pretty up the site.

2)      We are looking to do a grand opening BBQ on Friday March 2nd at 3pm. Start spreading the news, everyone welcome. Hoping to have members of the neighborhood in attendance.

3)      We are still renting beds for $30 a year. If you talk to someone who might be interested please have them e-mail me. Alternatively the sign-up sheets will be available on Wednesdays.

Courtney is looking at what to plant for the food bank beds and we will discuss the plan for those beds next week at the Wednesday meeting/work day. Rob I think we need more soil and bark mulch so we should discuss the best way to get that.

Let me know if any more ideas or questions and hopefully see some of you this Wednesday.

Thank you,

Andre

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Community Garden Update

Posted in Community Garden on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hello friends of the North and South Community Gardens!

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The sun is out today and, for a moment, we can think of Spring!  We are looking forward to our first full growing year, with the majority of the heavy-lifting work done, we’re gearing up for an excellent year.  Some site improvements will be underway the next couple of months, completion of the drip irrigation system (thank you to Kirk of Island Smart Irrigation Systems for donating the labour and know-how), building of a lean-to shelter in the North Site (thanks to the VIU carpentry department), signage, lighting improvements and various others.
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We are now starting our campaign to fill all the community beds for March 1, 2012 – Feb 28, 2013.  Plots are available to all community members at $30 per year.  See attached agreement and info form, please complete and mail to the YPN at the address below.  If you have an existing plot, please note whether or not you’d like to keep the same plot# on the form.
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Also if anyone needs some fresh-air or has been longing to help out, we are having a Volunteer Day Saturday Jan 28th 10am at the South End Garden (corner of Needham and Irwin Streets).  Please email Andre at andre.sullivan [at] integralwealth.com if you’re planning to attend or have any questions about what to bring.
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As always, if you have any questions about the gardens, please email me at gardens [at] ypnanaimo.com
Take care,
Jenn

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Attention South End Gardeners!

Posted in Community Garden on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I wanted to extend an invitation to you to help get the south end garden ready for winter. This coming Tuesday October 25th we are looking to assemble at the corner or Irwin and Needham at 3:30. There is some work to be done with the last of the harvesting and we also plan to build a compost bin. For those interested in being a part of the gardens for the 2012 growing year we will also discuss our next steps as a community garden.

Hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

Andre Sullivan

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Looking for a garden bed?

Posted in Community Garden on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

There’s still time to plant a garden this summer!  And there are some beds still available at the South End Community Garden!

For the cost of only $30, you can rent one of these beds until Feb 2012.  (in other words it will pay for itself many times over, especially if you like winter vegetables…:)

Contact the YPN to find out how:

gardens  [at]  ypnanaimo.com

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Community Garden Update

Posted in Community Garden, Uncategorized, untagged on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Update:

Thanks to the Canucks’ last two games, the Open House for the South End YPN Community Garden has been rescheduled to Tuesday June 21nd 5-7pm.

Further we are now taking names of those interested in leasing a garden plot for personal use on both the South and North end sites.  We will have beds built and ready soon and it’s only $30 to lease your own personal plot for the year!  Please email gardens@ypnanaimo.com if you or someone you know is interested and we’ll send you more information.
Hope to see you on the 21st to celebrate the opening and the first day of summer!
Go Canucks Go!
Hello Friends of the YPN Community Gardens,
Out comes the sunshine and the plants are planted in the North End!  Thank you to everyone who has come together to help make this possible.  We’re working on getting sponsor signs up and will be contacting you to obtain your logo and site preference shortly.  Thank you to our dedicated YPN Gardens Team:  Andre Sullivan, Anne Klein, Bob Webb, Gabriel Gregg, Julie Madden, Kyle Knox, Lewis Nahrgang and Nicole Parkinson amongst other YPN volunteers who have been working hard to make this project a reality.
Work party!  Please come out to see what’s happening on our South End site this Saturday 10am, corner of Needham and Irwin Street (next to RU Computing site owned by .  We need help to finish the build, the more the merrier.  Let’s cross our fingers for great weather again, but we’ll be there rain or shine.
Also, please join us for the South End Open House Wednesday June 15th 5-7pm.  Everyone welcome!  There will be a BBQ, games for the kids and we welcome your donation of a favourite hearty plant to add to the garden!  
If you’re interested in leasing your own private or family plot, please emails me at gardens [at] ypnanaimo.com and I’ll get your name on our list.
Other ways you can help
  • Vote for YPN community gardens daily in the $25,000 category at www.refersheverything.ca.  Have a look on the blog on the voting page and see what groups are supporting us, and blog on their page when you vote in their category as well!
  • Sponsor a bed for $300 this will help us pay for the cost of materials needed to get the beds built
  • Volunteer on the North or South end site.  Email me if you’re interested and I will keep you in the loop.
Thank you and hope to see you on site!
Jenn Bogwald
YPN Community Gardens Team

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Community Beat – South End: Neighbourhood embraces garden plots

Posted in Community Coming Together, Community Garden on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Derek Spalding, The Daily News

Published: Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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Planting BBQ Slated for Wed June 15

Posted in Community Garden on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday, June 15th from 5 – 7pm there is a ‘planting’ b-b-q at 256 Needham (behind R-U Computing) to start the growing of the community garden. Everyone is welcome – garden is open to all.

Nanaimo Young Professionals who are working so hard to get these community gardens going and bring people together are looking for ways to raise money. Please go to www.refresheverything.ca and click on the $25,000 and then go to ‘revitalize abandoned gas stations to turn them into community gardens…and ‘vote’

The winner is the one with the most votes and already in a week, they have gone from 53rd place to 26th. Please take a minute to help them out.


But not so great news on May 16.

Someone went into the green house and took all the vegetable plants Madilynn had started. She had about 40 pepper plants, 6 big tomato plants, 6 cucumbers and melons and 6 goji berries and even her gloves!

Very disappointing!!

 

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