What's up....and reminders.....

Wednesday June 18th is the Friends General Community Meeting. Takes place at TRC, 2nd floor at 7pm to 8:30pm. Come see what’s up, get updates on initiatives, perhaps bring some of your own, get involved in your volunteer community group. We welcome all. The Agenda will be posted on the website. If you’d like to add anything let us know by the 15th.

Wednesday June 25th – 100 Mile Potluck Dinner. Your challenge, should you accept it is, to make a dish with ingredients, from Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market, and share it with your neighbours. It’s lots of fun and last year was a great success and the weather was beautiful. Great way to join your neighbours and eat healthy together. It will start at 6:30pm, located north of the gates in the circle. You’ll see the two green canopys. This event is sponsored by the Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park and Olivia Chow. Please RSVP to Olivia’s office at 416.533.2710.

Tuesday August 12th from 4-5pm brings the ‘Jr. Eco Farmers Picnic’ workshop to the market. Bring a blanket and join us for a fun and informative exploration of ecological farming. Find out from 'HENrietta' and 'Jeanie the Zucchini' what makes for happy, healthy plants, animals, soil and water. Participants will get a chance to learn about what some of the farmers at the market are doing to protect the environment and raise healthy vegetables and animals. The Jr. Eco Farmers Picnic is a free workshop presented by Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market in partnership with Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario.

We invite you to partake in this mission - should you accept - make a dish with ingredients from the Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market and share it with your neighbours. Bring yourself and that yummy dish to the two green canopies located on the grass, in the circle north of the gates. Call time 6:30pm.

Meet your neighbours - support our farmers market - eat local and healthy

This event is sponsored by the Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park and Olivia Chow. Please rsvp to Olivia's office 416.533.2710.

Hope to see you there!

COLD FRAME WORKSHOP

Date: Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market
Cost: none

Kyla Dixon-Muir presents : Season Extension Techniques : Coldframes

Kyla Dixon-Muir, Development Coordinator at Riverdale Meadow Community Garden in Toronto, has been in the garden every single week – including right through the winter - for a number of years.

She grows foods in a wide range of low-cost and no-cost ColdFrames, some of which require construction skills, many of which do not. Kyla also applies Season Extension Techniques to get as much as a two-month head-start on growing foods for the warmer seasons.

This workshop will teach you how to create simple shelters: to extend the season for keeping some herbs, root vegetables and sub-tropical plants growing longer into the fall; to sow seeds now to harvest through until snowfall; to sow other seeds to eat right through the winter; and sow yet others to gain a head-start on spring planting.

Kyla has written a book on the subject, recently revised, and has also just produced a companion Planting Calendar and Diary. She is an experienced lecturer, and a inveterate recycler who can show you easy ways to keep your garden going months longer into the fall and right through the winter.

This Workshop will provide demonstration models of a range of low-cost and no-cost frames for sheltering plants, a handout, and hands-on practice at covering an easy ColdFrame.