Hello community gardens members and supporters. You are cordially invited to attend the Nanaimo Community Gardens Society Volunteer Appreciation Potluck and General Meeting We would love to see you there so that we can thank you in person for the work you have done for our community. Before we get started on planning another busy [Continue]
Job Title: Seedy Sunday Event Coordinator Commencement and Duration: December 1, 2019 – March 15, 2020 Contracted Rate: $3,250 Purpose: The Event Coordinator will coordinate a one day Seedy Sunday event and ensure it is a successful in engaging the community in a Seed and Garden vendor market, workshops and activities, and that the event [Continue]
Island Savings, a division of First West Credit Union recognizes employees for their leadership in the community through the Lead Well program. Employees receive a $500 donation to a charity of their choice. The donation we received represented the award given to Lindsay Grill for her outstanding contributions to the community. Lindsay attended one of [Continue]
Our latest project is complete! We love it. We get lots of compliments on the design. And most importantly, the bees love it.
Do you wanted to volunteer at one of the Nanaimo Community Gardens Society sites? There are no rental plots, instead we garden together doing whatever is needed depending on the site and the time of year. At the Beban Learning Garden work parties are held Wednesdays between 10am and 12pm. This garden is located beside [Continue]
Do you want to grow your own food? Improve your food security? Or make your garden more productive? Then the Growing Organic Food course is for you! Canadian Organic Growers is offering the Growing Organic Food course. In this 11 week in-class and hands-on course students will learn about soil health, water management, propagating plants, [Continue]
Representatives Jenna Sutherland and Tammie Muir from Island Savings were on hand at a recent tree planting work party at the Beban Learning Gardens to present a cheque to Nanaimo Community Gardens Society. The cheque for $1,500 will to go towards the purchase of fruit trees for the site. The planting of young fruit trees, [Continue]
We took some time recently to take out the old tubes of mason bee cocoons and replace them with fresh, new paper tubes. These tubes are where the new female mason bees will lay their eggs, fully provisioned with pollen. These eggs will hatch and the larvae will eat and grow until they are large [Continue]
Beban Learning Gardens will begin selling starterplants on Wed., March 20, directly from ourgreenhouse in Beban Park, beside the golf course. Every Wednesday from 10 to noon, from now until June, you can come and buy vegie, herb, and beneficial and edible flower starter plants, grown as organically as we know how, right on our [Continue]