The Community Harvest Working Group is thrilled to be hosting a fundraising event on Wednesday September 23rd, in conjunction with Margaret Atwood’s launch of her new book, The Year of the Flood. Tickets are $125 and are available through the Grand Theatre box office. Tickets will include:
- entrance to the reception where Margaret Atwood will be in attendance
- a signed copy of The Year of the Flood
- a ticket to the evening’s performance
- preferred seating at the performance
- cash bar
- finger foods made from local ingredients based upon recipes and food references found throughout The Year of the Flood
For more info please click here
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.
Wednesday August 12th, 5:30pm at 99 York St.
Hello to new and established volunteers!
Come to a Loving Spoonful Volunteer Planning and Orientation Meeting; Find out what’s going on at Loving Spoonful and how you can help. We will be talking about volunteer opportunities including:
- Scheduled Food Pick up and Distribution
- Farmers Market
- Grow a Row
- Gardening at the ACORN Garden
- Upcoming special events
- and more!
We welcome your ideas and your involvement.
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.
If you missed Jon Steinman’s talk on The Local Grain Revolution from June 8th or just want to hear it again, here it is! Jon Steinman is host of Deconstructing Dinner. You can hear Deconstructing Dinner on CFRC 101.9 FM on Tuesdays from 11am-12pm. Here is Jon’s presentation: jonsteinman-june8
Join us on Tuesdays from 4-8pm each week at the Oak Street Garden (weather permitting) to hang out, share some food, find out what’s going on in other plots and even do some gardening. This is a great chance for volunteers to see what is going on and to find some work to do. For more information please contact ashlie[at]lovingspoonful.org.
See you there!
Loving Spoonful welcomes Ashlie Laframboise as Volunteer and Events Coordinator. Ashlie is currently working with the Oak Street Garden, the Community Harvest Market, and more. You can reach her at ashlie[at]lovingspoonful.org.
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)
Grade 5 students at Rideau Public School are participating in the GROW project, a community initiative that involves the planting, raising and harvesting of tomato plants for donation to a local food agency as part of the Grow a Row program in Kingston this year.
Starting on May 28, students, parents and teachers will begin to build and plant the garden on the front lawn of the school property at the corners of Toronto and Dundas Streets. Students will sign up into groups and will be responsible for maintaining the garden through June and over the summer, until the fall harvest. All fruit raised and harvested by the students will be donated to Loving Spoonful for re-distribution to local food agencies.
For more information about the GROW Project please click here.
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!
