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  • Events
    • Plant and gardening related products for Sale by Members. 2021
    • Monthly Meetings
    • Bonnie’s insect Workshop – NEW!
    • Linda Gilkeson Workshop
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Posts with Category: Gardening Tips

August and October newsletter front pages.
October 4, 2014

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rfPRezZsufenhROEVRamRoUXpkRGt6MVJ5cVpHYmozdTBN/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rfPRezZsufanpzbUI2SmlvYTlqQlJSZ2l4d21CeFNNTWhZ/view?usp=sharing To see the front page of the newsletter for August 2014 or October press one of the above links. To see the entire newsletter become…

Posted In: Gardening Tips, Members

More Birds and Beans
June 14, 2014

Foster Richardson, from The Birds and the Beans talked to the Seed Savers about growing Corn as a staple crop. Corn is very adaptable,…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips

The Birds and the Beans
June 11, 2014

  Natasha Tymo and Foster Richardson from the Birds and the Beans spoke at our 2014 AGM about growing staple crops. You may have seen them…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Monthly Meetings

Saving Kale seeds
June 3, 2014

I have two varieties of kale and want to save seeds from both of them. One has smooth, tender green leaves, the tenderest kale I…

Posted In: Garden journal, Gardening Tips, Seed Saving

Winnower cleans up lettuce seed – by Arzeena Hamir
September 26, 2013

Earlier this year, the Comox Valley Growers and Seed Savers (CVGSS) purchased a winnower in order to make seed cleaning easier for its members…

Posted In: CVGSS Winnower, Education, Gardening Tips

Northword article on picloram herbicide contamination in manure and compost
September 16, 2013

Here is a link to a Northword magazine article titled  "Mean Manure & Killer Compost: Grazon after-effects in the Bulkley Valley" Picloram is the active…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips

How to Build Healthy Soil – A presentation by Connie Kuramoto
July 19, 2013

Below is a link to the presentation given by Connie Kuramoto at the Seed Savers meeting, June 6, 2013. One highlight was the down-to-earth…

Posted In: Events, Gardening Tips, Members, Resources

How to Build Healthy Soil – by Connie Kuramoto
July 19, 2013

Here's the presentation given by Connie Kuramoto at the Seed Savers meeting, June 6, 2013.  One highlight was the down-to-earth explanation of how organic…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips

Golden Flax for the first time.
July 18, 2013

Growing Golden Flax. This is my first year of growing flax and I'm enchanted with this beautiful vigorous plant. I picked up the seeds at Seedy…

Posted In: Garden journal, Gardening Tips

Red Orach, Russian Red Kale. bronze fennel and camomile

Diversity is healthy
June 23, 2013

Diversity is healthy. Diversity is good for the soil, good for the plants and good for us. The June garden is a tapestry of colours and…

Posted In: Gardening Tips

Music for gardening to
June 22, 2013

Do you like farming AND good music ? (at least I think it's good)   Click on these YouTube links have a listen, then step…

Posted In: Gardening Tips

a young lettuce plant in a 3 inch pot, ready for the plant sale

Lettuce – Val d’Orge
June 22, 2013

The Val d’Orge lettuce is a winter variety of butter lettuce.  The seeds came from Thierry Vrain of Innisfree Farm, who gives the provenance…

Posted In: Gardening Tips, Past events, Plant Sale

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