Helen is the award-winning author of four books of poetry, five novels, and one work of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her new puppy, Charlotte. She has dreams of an orchard of fruit trees but for now, promises to grow something more modest for Grow a Row.
Starlight Cascade Gardens is outside of Yarker which includes a greenhouse to help produce the seedlings for the 1400 sq ft of garden space. They grow organic garlic, and heirloom vegetables. This year they are growing a couple of rows for carrots for the Food Bank. Thank you Kim Hay & Kevin Kell!
Loving Spoonful is pleased to announce Sarah Foohey, Mariann Koves, Usman Mushtaq and Dawne Olafson as our summer students! You will be able to meet Sarah and Dawne at the Acorn Garden plot at the Tuesday workbees (details to be announced) and Usman and Mariann at the Grow a Row booth located at the Downtown Public Market. Welcome!
Georgette Fry is an award winning Blues artist, the director of the choir Shout Sister! and an avid gardener. She will grow “what ever you tell me” so let’s call it Tomatoes for Grow a Row. We only hope that her dogs, Harley and Dekker, will allow it in “their” yard.
On Tuesday May 4th, Wellington Acupuncture and Massage and Anglin Bay Pottery held a fundraiser for Loving Spoonful. Wellington Acupuncture and Massage host an annual fundraiser for a local community group and selected Loving Spoonful this year! They also partnered this year with Anglin Bay Pottery. The picture you see here is from Wednesday May 5th’s Whig Standard. To read more click here. We at Loving Spoonful offer our biggest thanks to Wellington Acupuncture and Massage, and Anglin Bay Pottery! We appreciate your support.
If you are a Queen’s student that qualifies for the Queen’s Work Study program (more info here – http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/awards/student/student-workprogram.html) and are a full time student in the Spring/Summer term, contact us!
We are hiring 2 work study student to work on the Grow a Row campaign. Each position will be roughly 90 hours of work over the course of the summer at a rate of $11/hour. Work will involve volunteer coordination, promotional work, gardening and more. Some work hours will be on evenings and weekends.
To view the job posting online visit: https://careers.sso.queensu.ca/home.htm and login with your student id. Select Job Postings – Workstudy/SWEP. Look for: (Job ID: 31102) Grow a Row Assistant.
Submit your resume, cover letter and contact info for 2 references to hiring[at]lovingspoonful[dot]org by Friday April 30th at 4pm.
Contact sayyida[at]lovingspoonful[dot]org for more information or click here for the job description.
6-9pm, Kingston Unitarian Fellowship, 214 Concession Street
Join the Grow a Row Committee, local gardeners and community members for a celebration including a potluck, music and more information about the Grow a Row campaign.
This is a family friendly event!
8PM at 99 York St
We will be hosting a volunteer meeting for new volunteers to learn about how to get involved in Loving Spoonful and to find out what projects we have on the go. We will be recruiting folks to join the Grow a Row committee and Special Events/Fundraising Committee. We hope to see you there!
Have your say: Comment on the City of Kingston’s draft Community Garden Policy
There are several aspects to this document that are really positive, including:
1. that the city is taking community gardens seriously and proposing to support their development and operations in a number of ways
2. that they propose appointing a Community Gardens Coordinator to help facilitate the development and operations of community gardens
3. that they are proposing to set aside a small fund to allocate to Community gardens for set up and improvements Some of us are concerned, however, that a number of the points outlined in the document may actually inhibit our ability to develop and run community gardens with ease in this city.
If you are interested in and supportive of the growth of community gardens in our city, please take a few minutes to review the draft policy: (http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/recreation/parks/CommunityGardensPolicy_Draft.pdf ) and submit your comments to Liz Cartwright lcartwright@cityofkingston.ca by Thursday January 14th.
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