Schedule of Workshops & Events 2010
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Sorauren Park Farmer's Market, Mondays, 3:30-6:30 pm
Aug 30 - Perfect Pickles Part 1. Back by popular demand, we'll make crunchy brine pickles. We made a surprising number of young friends with these last year.
Sept 13 - Kimchee Making and Perfect Pickles Part 2. We'll make a batch of kimchee and taste the pickles we made at the end of August.
Sept 27 - Organic Food Art and Kimchee tasting. Back by popular demand, we'll make crazy food sculptures (not to worry about waste: later we recycle and eat the goods!). We'll taste the kimchee we made in mid Sept.
Date tba - Introduction to Community and Backyard Composting.
Yoga & gardening for new moms and babies, Toronto Botanical Garden, Tues 9:30-11:30 Sept 14
$20 per class for TBG members; $25 otherwise. Join Marsha Ostrovsky and Jane Hayes to practice yoga and simple organic gardening with your baby. Each session starts with 50 minutes of yoga, designed to strengthen your body and relieve stress, as well as sooth colic, improve baby sleep patterns and digestion. After yoga, we'll share and practice techniques for gardening with babies, making plant remedies and growing nutrient dense foods. For new moms and babies that aren't crawling yet. About Jane and Marsha. Register.
Garden at High Park Children's Garden (Organic gardening and permaculture)
Wed eves 6:30-8:00, Sept 15, Oct 13. Join Garden Jane intern Leslie Cauchi and Food Not Lawns volunteers to grow exacmples of hugelculture, xeriscaping, fruit hedges and polycultures. RSVP to marsha @ gardenjane.com. Free.
Health Promotion Garden Tours, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (at Bayview)
Fri Sept 17, 11–2 pm
Meet the Horticultural Therapist. Visit the secure dementia garden, greenhouse, activity rooms and outdoor garden spaces that allow the resident veterans to live green. Especially relevant for people working in community gardens, education, human services and health care settings. Sliding scale: $30-45 tour (includes resources). Pre-registration required.
Introduction to Organic Gardening & Permaculture
Sat Sept 25th, 10:00-5:00
Pre-registration required. $70-$100 sliding scale. High Park Children's Garden.
This hands-on workshop introduces organic gardening, permaculture theory and seasonal hands-on activities. Topics: permaculture garden design; organic and permaculture practices; plant guilds (plants that grow well together, help soil tilth and support the larger ecosystem); dynamic accumulators (plants that accumulate nutrients and can feed the soil); soil building; composting, cover crops and mulches; garden bed clean-up; extending the seasons; what to plant in fall; organic soil management. Potluck or bag lunch.
High Park Children's Garden Harvest Festival
Sun Oct 3rd, 12-4
Lots of kids activities, as well as great garden food by donation and community love. How to get there.
HarbourKIDS Thanksgiving weekend
Oct 9th-11th, 11am-5 pm
With sprouting and mushroom growing demos, herbal teas and local food games. Find us just west of the York Quay Centre in a tent in the Ann Tindal park. Free.
Health Promotion Garden Tours, Ryerson Early Learning Centre’s Naturalspace Playground
Fri Oct 15th, 10 am-1 pm View a stimulating outdoor space that allows for collaborative and solitary play that is child-initiated and directed. Especially relevant for people working in community gardens, education, human services and health care settings. Sliding scale: $30-45 tour (includes resources). Pre-registration required.
Organic Garden and Permaculture Discussion Group Tues eves, 7-9 pm Oct 26th, Nov 9th and Nov 30th (field trip may replace one Tues). Pre-registration required. $20-$30 per session or $50-75 for all three. (+ small field trip fee if group wants a trip). Downtown locations. This facilitated group explores key readings, concepts and experiments, both in the off-season and in the garden / farm context. Our third topic is soil and soil health. We'll read Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, excerpts from Mycellium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paul Stamets), and meet a local soil expert. This group is for people interested in developing leadership and technical skills around food security, community gardening and food growing. Organic farmers welcome to offer food trade / attend free.
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