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Time to Sign up for CSA Memberships

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:18:38 +0000

It’s time to sign up for your 2011 CSA share! What is a CSA? The Community Supported Agriculture model lets you pay a farmer in advance for a season’s worth of produce, while contributing to a more secure local food system. It’s a great way to support local growers and to ensure that you are getting the freshest seasonal produce.

Come sign up for your CSA Share at the following events:

Seedy Saturday: March 12th 10-3, Wilson Room KPFL Central

Earth Hour: March 26th 18:30-21:30, Market Square

2011 Workplace Challenge

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:17:06 +0000

Loving Spoonful and Grow a Row are excited to announce this new initiative for 2011. We are looking for businesses to support us in getting fresh food out to local emergency meal providers. You can contribute to a really important campaign while building community in your workplace, not to mention our most successful workplace growers will win exciting prizes!

Workplaces can participate in one of two ways:

1. If your office has grounds that are favourable, you could start a small garden plot with a row of food designated for Grow a Row.

2. If space at work is not available, you and your colleagues could commit to growing a row at home, and bring your harvest into the office to donate to Grow a Row as a team.

Prizes will be given in two categories: the largest overall donation and the greatest number of participants. Drop us a line if you would like more information on getting involved: kate@lovingspoonful.org

Community Garden Network Up and Running!

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:28:45 +0000

Loving Spoonful, in partnership with Urban Agriculture Kingston and the City of Kingston, has established the Kingston Community Garden Network to support the creation of new community gardens on public or private lands, and to assist with the retention of existing community gardens in the city. We can work with your community group to help you through the process of starting a Community Garden in your neighbourhood. The CGN committee will be hosting gardening workshops and compiling a newsletter and resources to help Kingston gardeners connect with one another and share knowledge in order to foster food security in our city. For more information please contact: gardens@lovingspoonful.org or call 613 546 4291 ext. 1871. Check out our website : www.kingstoncommunitygardens.ca

Community Kitchen Supply Drive a Success!

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:26:24 +0000

Loving Spoonful gratefully received tons of new and gently used kitchen supplies that will be put to good use in our community kitchen project. Duplicate items have been passed on to St. Vincent de Paul to supplement their kitchen program. Thanks to all who contributed supplies and thanks also to Tara Foods for acting as a drop off point for our drive. Your generosity and support is amazing

Free Tomato Tasting and Corn Roast!

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:35:48 +0000

The Community Harvest Market is hosting a Tomato Tasting and Corn Roast on Sunday August 16th, from 10am-2pm at the Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre located at 50 MacCauley (off Weller Avenue on Daly Street).

Join us for fresh local produce, baking, jewellery, music, children’s activities and more!

Regular market runs every Sunday, same place, same time, until October 25th. Don’t miss it.

Grow a Row update

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:05:18 +0000

Grow a Row encourages home gardeners, community gardeners, and farmers to plant an extra row of produce and donate their harvest to local emergency food providers including food banks, shelters, and emergency meal programs. Grow a Row builds on the tradition of gardeners sharing their bounty with neighbors and friends.

Oak Street Garden will now have an area to drop off Grow a Row donations. The donation boxes will be out from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM Tuesday July 28th and hopefully will continue to collect following Tuesdays. So – if you have any lettuce, beans, peas, onions – whatever! please feel free to drop them off at the garden during this time and we will be more than happy to take them off your hands!

For more info about Grow a Row please click here.

Seedlings need homes

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:01:57 +0000

We have quite a few seedlings – tomatoes, peppers, fennel, leeks, – that need a Grow a Row home!

Plant the seedlings, nurture and harvest them and then donate the produce back to Loving Spoonful through the Grow a Row program. Do you have room in your garden for some more food? Please contact us to get some seedlings. (First come first serve)

Grow a Row and Oak Street Garden Launch!

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:32:01 +0000

When: Sunday June 7th, 2009
Where: Oak Street Garden – where Victoria St meets Oak Street
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Grow a Row in collaboration with the Oak St Garden are hosting a celebration of the new growing season! Come and learn more about Grow a Row and community gardening, and help us plant the Acorn Donation Garden – a 500 Sq Ft garden plot designated for growing food for donation to meal programs in Kingston.

Everyone is welcome!

Community Harvest Market Grand Opening!

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:20:03 +0000

The Community Harvest Working Group Invites you to the Grand Opening of the Community Harvest Market

When: Sunday May 31st, 2009
Where: Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre, Corner of Daly and MacCauley Street
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
BBQ, Entertainment, Children’s Activities. Free!

For more information, please contact: Tara Kainer at 613-544-4525, ext. 113 or Elaine Radway at 613-542-2949, ext.154 or click here.

The Community Harvest Market will be open every Sunday beginning May 31st until October 25th.

Community Harvest Working Group: Community members and representatives from various community organizations interested in increasing food security for individuals and families living in the Rideau Heights area (defined as Railway to Hwy 401, and Division to Cataraqui River).

ACORN Garden

admin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:01:11 +0000

Loving Spoonful is helping to host the ACORN Garden at Oak St. Garden.

The ACORN Garden is a family-friendly donation and learning garden at the Oak St Community Garden. It provides a place where everyone can volunteer to help grow food for donation to local meal programs and food banks. It is a great opportunity to learn about growing food, to meet other gardeners, and to share with the community. Experienced gardeners are encouraged to take part and share their knowledge and skills with new gardeners.

Volunteers who help in the ACORN Garden will be encouraged to harvest some of the bounty for themselves. Most of the food grown in the ACORN Garden will be distributed to local meal programs through Loving Spoonful or used in upcoming educational workshops such as Make YOur Own Baby Food and Tomato Canning.

There will be a work bee in the near future, check back for more information soon!