Category: Civic Engagement

Compost Ed goes to Mayne Island

June 21, 2014

This past week the Compost Ed Centre took a little day trip to Mayne Island to teach the folks there all about some advanced composting methods.  We gathered in the old Ag Hall and had a wondrous two hours of composting queries, information exchange, homemade lemon cake and strong cups of tea!  Vicki of the Mayne Island Recycling Society showed me the Mayne Island community garden, and I thought we could all take a page or two from their book.  Scroll on down to learn more (click on the pictures to enlarge)!

A huge thanks to Mayne Island for hosting and inspiring us, we look forward to more trips around the southern Gulf Islands, spreading the compost word!

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Grow A Row 2014 is underway!

May 16, 2014

We are excited to announce that the Grow A Row program has started up once again!

Grow a Row is a community of gardeners, businesses, groups and individuals gathering together to help those in need.

The concept is simple:

Grow an extra row of food in your garden and bring it to one of the drop off locations around town where it will be distributed to food lunch programs, community kitchens, food banks and Our Place Society.

Support food justice and security in your own backyard!

Starting Saturday May 17th, the Compost Education Centre will be accepting donations of excess garden produce from 10:00am-4:00pm.  All produce collected at our Centre at 1216 North Park St will be promptly delivered to Our Place and added to the nourishing meals they provide to people in need in our community.  Our Place serves over 1,200 meals a day, 5 days a week and your extra tomatoes, zucchini, kale or other veggies will help make them even more nutritious and tasty.

If you’d like to donate produce from your garden but live in a different part of town, please check out our list of drop-off locations to find the closest one to you:

Burnside Gorge
Burnside Gorge Community Association, 471 Cecelia Road

Mondays & Wednesdays: 7:30-9am & 5-8:30pm

Produce donated to Burnside Gorge Community Association.
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Sooke
Sunriver Community Gardens
(at the notice chalkboard)

Wednesday: before 4:00pm

Produce donated to Sooke Food Bank.
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Victoria West
Vic West Community Centre, 521 Craigflower Road

Monday: 9:00am-4:00pm

Produce donated to S.A.F.F.E. Monday Night group dinners/ Burnside Gorge Community Association .
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Randolf The Red Wriggler Needs You!

March 8, 2014

Our friends at Reynolds Secondary are working on an amazing gardening project and could use your support!  They are entered in the BC Green Games, a province-wide competition for students in Kindergarten to Grade 12, designed to motivate action, enable sharing and reward and celebrate the green efforts of schools throughout BC.

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