Get your garden ready for winter!!
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Gardeners Wanted!
Our Sharing Land 4 Food program has piqued the interest of many people who have land to share, but we need more gardeners!!
So if you wish you had somewhere to grow things, visit this page and then send us a message!
We’ll try to connect you with someone who has land in a convenient location.
Tool Swap Meet at Seedy Saturday, April 14th
Tool Swap at Seedy Saturday
April 14, 2012
200 Block of Main Street, Penticton
Are idle gardening tools hanging around your home?
Swap for other tools, sell them, or donate them to the Centre for Urban Agriculture (C.URB)!
We (C.URB) will collect and put them to work in a new home!
Suggested tools: shovels, spades, digging forks, rakes, hoes, trowels, clippers, pruners, pruning saws, weed diggers, hand hedge trimmers
For information on where to drop off your tools before April 14 and what we need to know from you, email pentictonurbanag@gmail.com or call 250-492-0158.
Upcoming, we have another work party day!
On Wednesday, September 7th, we will be planting xeriscape gardens at the south end of the lot. We need hands to help! And you’ll learn about preparing the site, planting techniques and about the xeriscape plants themselves!
We’re running two work party sessions on Wednesday September 7th at C.Urb
8:30am-12pm
3pm-6pm
Bring: gloves, shovels, trowels, garden forks, rakes, drinking water, hats and friends!
Stay as long as you can!
Habitat for Humanity has agreed to donate and deliver soil from their excavation at 12 Huth Ave to the C.Urb site.
Art Knapp’s and Superior Peat have generously donated 7 yards of mulch to spread around the xeriscape beds.
August Work Party!
This Saturday we’re joining forces with members of the Penticton Church community onsite at C.Urb!
We’re pulling weeds, building compost bins, spreading soil and painting fences!
It’ll be a hive of activity and we’d love your help.
Bring hats, water, work gloves and friends.
9am-12pm Saturday, August 13th
