Hello sunshine!!

Happy Friday everyone!

It has been such a gorgeous week - the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the plants are starting to grow!

The clocks changed last weekend, and combined with the warmer weather, it’s really felt like spring is here this week. There’s more energy in the air, we’ve been spending more time outside, and all around campus you can feel the excitement for the end of the semester. 

Our staff have been doing lots more seeding of spring vegetables, including broccoli, gai lan, and cabbage, and even started planting out some peas! The marigolds are coming up (finally!) and overall the garden is garden-ing (Kate's words) :p
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We hosted a “Bee a Meadow Maker” event on Tuesday afternoon, where we invited volunteers to join us to help move native plants to the bee yard, and started to turn it into a thriving native plant meadow! Thanks to everyone who joined us for this sweet afternoon activity, we’re really excited about this transformation in the garden, and can’t wait to see the fruits of our collective labour!

Today we had our usual work party, and it was such a lovely afternoon in the sunshine! So many people were out in the garden, and it was so great to chat with everyone! We helped some new plot renters get a plot ready, planted some veggies and flowers around the garden, and soaked up the sun. We’re so excited for the nice weather, which just makes Friday afternoon work parties that much more wonderful :)
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We also officially announced our Spring Social today, in collaboration with the UVic Live Music Club! Mark your calendars for Friday, April 5th at 2pm, and join us in the garden for an evening of live music, crafting, vendors, food, and tons of fun!

Looking forward to next week, we’ve got some more special workshops coming up! On Tuesday, March 18th from 1-2pm we’ll be in the David Turpin Courtyard to learn about native plant identification from Loreissa of A Place of Medicine! And on Thursday, March 20th we’re back in the McPherson Library for a hands-on letterpress printing and journal stitching workshop from UVic Book Arts! As always, check out our Instagram to keep up to date on events and workshops, and we hope to see you this week!

Thanks for making this another lovely week, and I hope you all take some time to enjoy the weather this weekend :)

Happy gardening,
Jessi