Grow-A-Row or donate fresh produce throughout the season!

 Would you like to grow-a-row of produce to donate to local community meals or food banks? 

Or if you have extra produce coming out of your garden throughout this season

 considering dropping some off to help other community members have access to fresh, local, seasonal produce! Contact us if you have any questions:

Below is a list of agencies (and times) that will accept donations of fresh produce:

List of Agencies that Accept Fresh Produce Donations:

1)      OPIRG Food Bank -Sadleir House, 751 George St N, Peterborough ON

- http://www.opirgpeterborough.ca/  

- Open Wednesday 3-5; Thursday 1-5; Friday 1-5

- Best time to donate fresh produce?Wed. 11-1pm, Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1-2pm

2)      St. John’s Anglican Church – 99 Brock St. 

-     705-745-7624 

-          Saturday morning meal

3)       Peterborough Housing

-          Food Bank @ 849 Alexander Court – 2^nd Wednesday of every month

-          Food Bank@ 835 Cameron St. Unit # 39– 2^nd Tuesday of every month  

4)      Hastings & Roseneath Food Banks

-          Best time to donate produce?   Tuesdays 12:30, Wednesdays 6:30pm

5)      Brock Mission - 217 Murray St. Peterborough ON -

-          http://www.brockmission.ca/

-          Best time to donate food? Anytime

6)      Our Space – 574 George St. N, Peterborough ON

-          http://ourspacepeterborough.ca/foodicon/index.html

-          Serves breakfast, lunch and snacks daily.

-          Open:  Sun- Fri 10-4pm

7)      St. Vincent de Paul Emergency Food Cupboard - 256 Murray Street, Peterborough ON

-          Open: Wednesday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm; Thursday and Friday 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Saturday 9:00 am - 11:30 am

-          Best time to donate food? Monday & Tuesdays

8)      Peterborough Family Resource Centre - 201 Antrim St.

-          Best time to donate food? Friday mornings.

9)      Lakefield Food Bank

St. John’s Anglican Church

705-652-8302

-          Open Tuesdays 8:30-10:30am (Deliver by 8am)

-          Serve 50 families

Buckhorn Public School garden planting day

What a beautiful day to drive out to Buckhorn and spend the day with the students at Buckhorn Public School. Each class came out to the garden and planted a zillion cool things for the summer and fall!

Yukon Gold and Red Chieftan potatoes, carrots, dill,cucumbers, yellow and green beans, tomatoes, heirloom lettuce and mammoth sunflowers will sprout up in the next few weeks. A big thank you to Jody Whetung, teachers and students who welcomed me into their garden...and fed me ice cream too!

Buckhorn School has available garden plots for families or organizations wishing to grow food over the summer months. If you are interested, please contact Marcy at the PCGN.

North Cavan School gets a garden!

Before the long weekend, students, families and community members in Cavan came out to assemble two beautiful raised beds for North Cavan Public School. The giant wooden beams were generously donated by Discovery Dream Homes.Composted manure from a  local farm,some veggie starts from the Millbrook Community Garden, and top soil will be added this week by the students. Using the library and classroom windows, students await planting their seedling squash, pumpkins and beans. Teachers anticipate using the gardens for projects in the spring and fall. Way to go North Cavan School!

Building a community garden at George St. United Church

 the site before the gardens were built and filled

 construction crew cutting up the lumber

 it begins ...

 Before!

 constructing the new raised beds

laying out where the beds are to be built!

 raking out the filled beds ..

 filling the raised beds with soil

The end product. What a great work crew!! The whole thing was started and finished in less than six hours! Gardeners will be planting in these new beds soon! 

Prince of Wales Public School expands their garden!

Its been a busy month of May with schools getting their gardens ready. Prince of Wales Public School recently expanded their raised beds at the front of the school, adding SIX more gardens! Lots of planning, hard work and effort from students, staff, parents and staff  made this all happen.

Looking for a raised bed to grow your own food?

There will be a few raised beds available to community members or organizations wishing to grow food at the school over the summer months. Contact Marcy at the PCGN for details.

Grow-A-Row Campaign

Kawartha Food Share is launching a Grow-A-Row campaign! With support from the PCGN we would like to encourage people to plant an extra row this season and donate the produce to local food banks! To find out more contact us or visit Kawartha Food Share or find them at the Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market this Wednesday 8:30-2:00

List of Agencies that Accept Fresh Produce Donations:

       OPIRG Food Bank -Sadleir House, 751 George St N, Peterborough ON

- http://www.opirgpeterborough.ca/  

- Open Wednesday 3-5; Thursday 1-5; Friday 1-5

- Best time to donate fresh produce?Wed. 11-1pm, Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1-2pm

2   St. John’s Anglican Church – 99 Brock St.

-          Goodith Heeney – cybergoodie@cogeco.ca  705-745-3468

-          Saturday morning meal

3)       Peterborough Housing

-          Food Bank @ 849 Alexander Court – 2^nd Wednesday of every month

-          Food Bank@ 835 Cameron St. Unit # 39– 2^nd Tuesday of every month  

4)      Hastings & Roseneath Food Banks

-          Best time to donate produce?  Tuesdays 12:30, Wednesdays 6:30pm

5)      Brock Mission - 217 Murray St. Peterborough ON -

-          http://www.brockmission.ca/

-          Best time to donate food? Anytime

6)      Our Space – 574 George St. N, Peterborough ON

-          http://ourspacepeterborough.ca/foodicon/index.html

-          Serves breakfast, lunch and snacks daily.

-          Open:  Sun- Fri 10-4pm

7)      St. Vincent de Paul Emergency Food Cupboard - 256 Murray Street, Peterborough ON

-          Open: Wednesday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm; Thursday and Friday 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Saturday 9:00 am - 11:30 am

-          Best time to donate food? Monday & Tuesdays

8)      Peterborough Family Resource Centre - 201 Antrim St.

-          Best time to donate food? Friday mornings.

9)      Lakefield Food Bank

Contact: Sandra Peacock – sandrapeacock01@gmail.com

-          Open Tuesdays 8:30-10:30am (Deliver by 8am)

-          Serve 50 families

Donating Seedlings?

I have received some requests from a few community gardens looking for extra seedlings ... .Many of our local community gardens operate on small or no budgets, and can use a helping hand! 

Did you accidentally plant way too many pepper seeds? Have tomato seedlings taking over your home? Want to donate just a few seedlings to help a gardener grow some great food this season? 

Let us know! We will make sure your seedlings get to a good home! Thanks, the PCGN 

Follow-Up Downtown Garden Meeting

Would you like to join the George St. Community Garden Group and help make these garden dreams a reality? Want to learn more about building raised beds through a hands-on workshop? Looking for a place to grow your own food? Have skills, seeds, time, or tools to contribute? Join Us for a follow-up meeting: 

 TUESDAY MAY 15TH at 5PM at GEORGE ST. UNITED.

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Earlier this week, we hosted a very exciting meeting at George St. United to start envisioning the development of new downtown community garden. Members of the church community and several folks from the surrounding neighbourhood met to discuss what they would like to see the garden look like, the lay-out, how to go about constructing raised beds, and the creation of a community garden group! 

 This is an incredible site. It is centrally located, and has an on-site community space & kitchen!! (in George St. United)

 

Environment Day - Sat. May 12th

Do you have extra plastic (chairs, watering cans, broken plant pots, ... ) piling up in your community garden, shed or yard? Bring them to:

Environment Day: Plastics Round Up

Saturday May 12th 9:00-1:00pm

Evinrude Parking Lot 

For more information, contact the City of Peterborough 

705-742-7777 ex. 1657

or www.peterborough.ca/ waste

Let's Bulid a Garden Council

Would you like to be a part of guiding the future direction of the PCGN? We thrive on contributions from our Network, and would love for you to JOIN US!

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May 2012 Newsletter

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Get Growing!!

It’s Gardening Season!

There are still garden plots available throughout town. Let us know if you are still looking for a plot?

The beginning of May is a great time to get out in your garden. You can dig-up a garden, expand an existing garden, add compost & make beds for your veggies.

 You can even start planting some things. Carrots, beets, radishes, potatoes & cold hearty greens such as kale & chard can go directly in the gardens, and start veggies such as cucumbers, zucchini & squash indoors. Once the last frost date has passed (typically May 24^th) you can start beans right in the garden & transplant your tomato, pepper, eggplant & other seedlings into the garden!

George St. United Church Community Garden.

George St. United Church is looking to build a community garden.

Join us in a visioning session:

 Tuesday May 8th at 5pm

 George St. United (534 George St. N)

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They would like to construct some raised beds on the south lawn. Members of the public are invited to be part of the newly emerging community garden & group. 

Are you looking for a downtown location to grow food? Have an idea that could help the project? Have seeds, lumber, soil, time or knowledge that you could donate to the project? 

Spring Gathering Photos

People were asked to sit in groups, share a story about a 'Vibrant Community Movement' that they have participated in, and then as a group make a collage that symbolizes their vision of a 'Vibrant Community Movement'

 

 The group was very enthused, and got right to work cutting, pasting, and even moulding plastecine.

 

 

Our team of facilitators taking a moment to chat while collages were furiously being constructed. 

 

Thanks to everyone who came out for all their energy & participation 

 

A completed collage 

 

Contributions from the group were recorded for all to see. 

 

A completed collage 

There will be a follow-up meeting on Monday May 14th to continue with the development and future visioning of the PCGN.  More details soon.

Garden Planning Party Photos

 

Groups getting together & talking about their plants & dreams for 2012 gardens! 

 One of our fabulous network members donated some home-made preserves for participants to take home.

Garden plans emerging 

Seedy Sunday photos

 

Busy seed exchange area! 

 Customers happily picking out seeds for their gardens to be.

I had lost the cord to upload photos from my camera, and now it is found! So I am going to put up a bunch of photos from events over the last few months ...

 Starting with Seedy Sunday!

 Happy folks buying seeds!