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Grow a Row website

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:21:56 +0000

Check out our new Grow a Row site: http://growarow.lovingspoonful.org. Check back frequently for updates on how to get involved in this year’s campaign! Our goal is to raise 4000 lbs of locally grown food for distribution to meal programs, agencies and the food bank. Help us reach it!

Free Tomato Tasting and Corn Roast!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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!

Grow a Row in Kingston this year!

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:53:58 +0000

Loving Spoonful is coordinating Kingson Grow a Row this year. 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 neighbours and friends.
Visit our Grow a Row page for more information.