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Radium Rotary Garden Tour

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garden for community
How does a community create a garden for everyone?
Radium has excelled at it.

Whether you want to grow veg for your own table or just enjoy the fragrance and beauty; a community garden has something for everyone.
Learn some of the pitfalls and possibilities including how to be totally inclusive to both people and nature, while creating magic with colour, texture, and scents that locals and visitors alike refresh themselves in.

Facilitator: Todd Logan
Please meet at the Rotary Garden – 7511 Columbia Avenue. at 6:15 for check in. The session will begin sharp at 6:30. We will have a tour, discuss how Radium has built a world class Community Garden – problems and possibilities and growing challenges that meet a multitude of conflicting community needs. This will be interesting, beautiful, and lots to learn.

PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ATTEND.

We will then go to Dee’s garden at 8 PM, which is a special events garden, for refreshments and sharing until 8:30.

I am crossing all my fingers and toes that this works for you

6:30 PM Session starts – 7511 Columbia Ave, Radium, BC
8:00 PM Refreshments and conversation at Dee’s delightful garden where special events of all kinds take place.
Cost: $20 members $25 non-members. All Community Gardeners attend FREE but must register with events@groundswellnetwork.ca

“A good garden is always part of a good life.” Monty Don. It doesn’t have to be your own.

Road Trip – Garden Tour – 3 Gardens Windermere

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July 28 – 9:30 am to 11:30 noon Completely different and delightful gardens for you to learn from. Each one makes changes year to year. We are hoping you can join us to walk these beautiful gardens, enjoy their art and architecture and the socialize over refreshments.

Tickets: $20 members, $25 non members-

NOTE: 9:15 Meet at the Chamber Parking lot on Hwy 93

Things to bring – water, walking shoes, layers of clothes, sunscreen and garden journal.

Note: be able to stand for periods of time.

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Display of award winning Dahlias that the deer don’t eat, 2 environments in one yard, a She-shed that doubles as a bunky, tallest pole beans in the valley and so much more.

It’s a wrap

wrapChristmas Eve morning saw Groundswell volunteers wrapping poinsettias for delivery to senior’s homes and valley churches to add beauty to their holiday.

wrapThe David Thompson EI student’s sparkling stars on the hill have stopped shining as the garden prepares to go back to sleep until spring.

wrapMain Street Fun and Games was presented with The Favourite Tree Award by Edson Martins, Store Manager of Home Hardware. The Paul Mondragon tree sculpture will be as treasured as Main Street’s dragon that they decorated their tree with. Be sure to drop into their store for a close up look and a word of Congratulations.

Four Points Books was a close second with a classic blue and white theme pointing us in the direction of a better future by growing ourselves through our reading, and Mrs. Armitage’s JA Laird class was a big hit with Gramma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.

The trees were voted on by attendees over the 4 nights of Groundswell’s First Annual Garden of Lights.

wrapWhether adding their wish for 2024 on the Wishing Tree, warming by the fire with friends or indulging in Carole singing along with Bryant Oleander and the Valley Voices …community celebrated the blessings of this valley as they contributed to the growing movement for Food Sustainability with Groundswell Community Greenhouse and Gardens and all their partners. We are working together to ensure that everyone who lives here goes to bed with a full, well-nourished tummy.

wrapThe Grinch waves good bye as he retreats to his mountain top to plan his return to upset your holiday in 2024. Hi Jinx creative designer, Arly Franson, has already started to dream of sugarplums
Ring in your new year by contacting us as a potential sponsor or volunteer for next year and make this valley even brighter.

Visit us at Groundswell later in January. Watch with your very own eyes the miracle of crisp lettuce, healthy kale, and new tomatoes sprouting under the leadership and green thumb of Marion Andrus, Groundswell manager Stephanie Stevens, and all the volunteers of Groundswell. Check out groundswellnetwork.ca/events.

Getting Down and Dirty – Old Blue Truck Farm – Dealing with Food Security

What are you interested in?
In this hands-on workshop you can help prep a row so you have an up close look at Permaculture and what a difference it makes to creating healthy, living soil.
You’ll peer through a magnifying glass to understand what living soil really is.
You’ll have an opportunity to make tea and can even buy some to take home.
You’ll finally get an answer to the makeup of the soil in the valley and solutions with rock dust for balance PH.
You’ll see with your own eyes the difference of the nutritional value of what is grown in a Permaculture crop compared to store bought.
Hugelkultur bedYou may even get to help build a Hügelkultur bed.
Groundswell members: $20; non-members: $30
Date: was Sunday, 2023 May 7
Time: 10 – 12
Location: Old Blue Truck Farm
What to Bring: Wear grubbies, comfy shoes that can get dirty, garden gloves, water bowl and your garden journal (if you don’t have one you can buy one there for $10 (cash).
Facilitator and Host: Dale Wilker

Event photos and comments:
Old blue truck farm workshop/tour. The tips and the learning never stopped, as we created living soil and planted the first seeds of the season.
“I always learn new things and I have been gardening for 40 years. Dale has so much knowledge to move us to a gentler way with the earth and then the earth gives us more back.” – Jim.

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