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Another week has come and gone! It’s been another busy one at the CCG, with winterizing in full swing, plot renewals and garden tours ongoing, and the new accessible bed being built! On Tuesday we started advertising for our SAGM (Semi-Annual General Meeting), which will take place on Tuesday, November 19th at 3pm! This will be a potluck and meeting, where garden staff come together with our board and our community to share food, recap our year at the CCG, and discuss some of our plans for the next year! If you are interested in learning more and/or getting involved with the CCG, please join us! We’re asking folks to bring something to share for the potluck, as well as their own dishes/containers and utensils for eating with. We would love to see you there!  We also held our biweekly board meeting on Tuesday this week, where we chatted about what’s gone on over the past two weeks, and discussed some upcoming projects and events. We also voted to adjust the time of our board meetings, from 3:30pm to 3pm, so that we can still have a little bit of sun when we’re leaving the meetings (now that it gets dark at 4:30pm!). On Wednesday afternoon our accessible bed building team met in the garden to start the process of building the bed! This project has been the biggest, longest project that I’ve ever taken on (we started working on it last spring!) and I’m really looking forward to seeing how all of our work turns out. Most of our team is volunteers, so it’s a longer process to build than it would be otherwise. We’re planning to finish with building next week, and then make adjustments and finishing touches as we prepare to plant in the Spring! Once the bed is complete, we’ll have a proper celebration - keep an eye on our Instagram for information about that :) Friday was another busy day in the garden. In the morning, a few of our staff and board members got together to harvest veggies and flowers to give away at our pop-up farm stand outside of the SUB, where board members gave away treats from the garden and chatted with folks about our work. We’ve had two of these pop-ups so far, and they’ve been going super well! We’re really excited to keep connecting with new folks and giving away food for free! Make sure to follow us on Instagram to keep updated about when we’re out next!  We’ve also been running garden tours over the past couple weeks for ES200 classes. Lyndsay ran a bunch on Friday morning, and then also ran the volunteer work party in the afternoon! This week’s work party was another winterizing-focused one, with mulching, sewing cover crops, and general bed prep going on! And we had some new faces come by, which was so wonderful!  The first half of this week is reading break at UVic, so we’ve mostly got garden-focused work going on - continuing with winterizing and building the accessible bed! On Thursday, we’re planning to do another pop-up giveaway outside of the McPherson library, and on Friday we’ll have our volunteer work party!
I hope everyone has a good long weekend, and enjoys the reading break! Happy gardening, Jessi
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