Another Friday blog :)

Happy Friday everyone,

I hope you’ve had a great week! I can’t believe next week is the last week of the month, March has gone by sooo quickly! 

It feels like I say this every week, but it’s been another busy one at the CCG! We kicked the week off with a Native Plant ID workshop on Monday with Loreissa of A Place of Medicine. This workshop was held in the David Turpin courtyard on UVic campus, where A Place of Medicine has been tending to the native plants! We learned about native plant identification and what happens when you remove invasive species from an area (spoiler: it gives space for more plants to grow!). We also tried some nodding onion, and were visited by a local hummingbird named David! We would love to offer this workshop again sometime, so if you’re interested in this let us know!

We’ve also been running tours of the garden with ES200 (Environmental Studies) classes this week! Every fall and spring semester, ES tutorials come by the garden to have a tour of the space. This is a wonderful way to introduce students to the garden, to show them where the portion of their student fees that we receive goes, and to invite them to get involved with the garden through volunteering, plot renting, or workshops and events that we offer! In total, we’ve hosted twelve tours for ES students this week!!

On Wednesday we held our much-anticipated Journal Making workshop in the McPherson Library with UVic Book Arts! We learned about letter pressing techniques, journal stitching, and made our own Campus Community Garden journals :)

Today started off in the garden with more ES tours! In the afternoon, we held our Seed Bomb Making workshop, in partnership with the UVic Sustainability Project (UVSP). We had so much fun chatting and making seed bombs together, and can’t wait to see native flowers start popping up!
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We were supposed to have our Container Gardening workshop with Kayla from the Victoria Compost Education Centre today, but unfortunately due to sickness we’ll have to reschedule this. Keep an eye on our Instagram to find out when this will be moved to (thinking April)!

We also have our usual work party this afternoon, at our new time of 3-5pm! Now that the sun is out later, we can be a bit more flexible with our gardening time. If you’re interested in volunteering with the CCG, feel free to show up at the garden on Fridays for work parties (no sign-up required!). And please always feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions :)
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Looking ahead, the end of March is an exciting time! Submissions for the first edition of the new garden journal, Sundew, are closing at the end of the month, so make sure to get your pieces in to us! To learn more, you can check the Sundew page on our website here. 

We’re also in full-swing planning mode for our Spring Social on April 5th! If there’s one event this semester that you don’t want to miss, it’s this one!! 
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​I hope you all have a fantastic rest of your Friday, and a wonderful weekend!

Happy gardening :)
Jessi