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This is a combo blog from March and April (aka I sat down to write the March blog and all of a sudden it became the end of April) - the last few months have flown by!! March was a busy month at the CCG! On top of the obvious arrival of spring, and all the garden work that comes with the new season, we also ran a referendum question and hosted our annual spring celebration! The garden was buzzing with activity in March, with more folks around and lots of preparing for the growing season happening! We started crops, sowed seeds, got our compost re-started, and planned for our growing over the summer. It’s shaping up to be a great summer at the garden - the whole team will be around and we’ve got lots of big plans! In March we also ran a referendum question during the UVSS Election! We asked students to vote yes to increase our fees by $1.50 per full-time student and $0.75 per part-time student, so that the garden can keep growing! The campaign was a lot of work (shoutout to our Assistant Coordinator, Juls, who took the lead on this!!), but in the end students voted yes to our increase! At the end of the month, we held our annual spring celebration in the garden. This year, we hosted a Spring Market with vendors, live music, games, snacks, and even face painting! We were worried about the weather leading up to the event (it was supposed to rain!) but it ended up being a gorgeous, sunny afternoon! Our vendors were awesome (I think all the staff ended up buying something haha), the musicians were all so talented, and it was so sweet to see so many people enjoying themselves in the space! These pictures were taken by a pal of the garden, you can find him on Instagram @dawson.erskine April has also been a busy one! Everyone was working to finish things up for school, while keeping up with the planting, weeding, harvesting, and general preparing of the garden. In particular, we’ve been planting lots of peas, radishes, and greens! We also made a tayberry trellis at our work party last week! One of the main things that happened this month is that we’re back to twice-a-week work parties now, on Wednesdays from 5-7pm and Fridays from 2-4pm! This means we’ve got two opportunities a week to volunteer in the garden - work parties are drop-in style (no signups, stay as long as you’d like), and are open to any and all levels of experience! We’ve normally got a main task going on, but always have alternatives available for different energy levels and comforts :)
We’ve got big plans for the summer in terms of events and workshops, and have spent a lot of time in April getting these planned! One of the things I’m most excited for is that we’re expanding on the poetry picnics that we ran last summer, and doing a weekly garden open mic! This will be on Thursday evenings starting in May! Every second week, we’ll also have a featured act (musician, poet, etc). Check out our Instagram to keep updated about these, and reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions! Another thing that I’m excited for is the big events that we do over the summer! Favourites like Gay in the Garden, the Farm Crawl, and Live Music Fest are in the works so keep an eye out… We’re also going to be doing more community get-togethers this summer, which are a casual, potluck style hangout with the ccg community. We had such a lovely time doing these in the fall, and are excited to connect with folks over the summer! Overall, we’re excited to be growing food, connecting with our community, and playing around in the garden this summer! If you have any ideas for events that you’d like to see over the summer, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] so we can chat :) Finally, just a quick reminder from staff to please clean the dirt off your tools when you’re done using them! Dirt causes rust which can be avoided by using the brushes (usually on top of the mini fridge in the tool shed) to wipe off the dirt. Thanks!!! Happy gardening, Jessi
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