Category: Food Security

May 11th: Spring Organic Plant Sale, 10-2pm

May 10, 2019

The Compost Education Centre (CEC) is hosting our 16th annual all-organic spring plant sale! The event is on Saturday May 11th, 10am-2pm at the CEC demonstration site at 1216 North Park Street. The Spring Organic Plant Sale features local farmers offering a wide variety of organically grown vegetable, flower and herb seedlings to get you off to a successful start this growing season.

What you can look forward to:
• The largest selection of organically grown heirloom tomato varieties all in one place for easy shopping
• Organically grown vegetable starts from arugula to zucchini
• Native plants for your low maintenance garden
• Perennial edibles like berry bushes and other fruiting shrubs
• Medicinal herbs like English lavender, chamomile and yarrow
• Culinary herbs like Genovese basil, dill and chives
• Companion plants like marigolds, sweet cicely and comfrey
• Live music!

2019 VENDORS:
Saanich Organics

Metchosin Farm

Growceries

Mason Street City Farm

Ravensong

Organic Gardener’s Pantry

Haliburton Farm

Crooked Fir Farm & Nursery

Community Garden Growers

Cam Kidd

The Compost Education Centre

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Winter VS Summer Growing

August 25, 2018

Winter vs. Summer Growing

Posted in Blog, Featured, Food Security, Organic GardeningTagged gardening, info, organic gardening, winter gardening

August Organic Plant Sale; August 18th from 10am-1pm

July 28, 2018

 

Saturday, August 18th, from 10am-1pm

Missed the window in June and July to seed your winter vegetable garden? Not to worry, we’re hosting our 7th annual August Organic Plant sale so you can still have fresh greens and herbs throughout the winter!

The plant sale will be held Saturday, August 18th from 10am to 1pm on the street outside the CEC (1216 North Park Street). Gardeners can expect to find a wide selection of plants for fall and winter growing and harvest including kale, broccoli, cabbages, collards, arugula, cold hardy lettuces, herbs like cilantro and parsley, and many others. Local, organic farmers are:

The Organic Gardener’s Pantry

Ravensong Seeds

Saanich Organics

The Compost Education Cetnre

Metchosin Farm

and more!

No need to register for this event but feel free to call our office at 250 386 9676 or contact us via email at office at compost.bc.ca if you have any questions.

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Spring Organic Plant Sale

May 2, 2018

The Compost Education Centre (CEC) is hosting our 16th annual all-organic spring plant sale! The event is on Saturday May 12th, 10am-2pm at the CEC demonstration site at 1216 North Park Street. The Spring Organic Plant Sale features local farmers offering a wide variety of organically grown vegetable, flower and herb seedlings to get you off to a successful start this growing season.

What you can look forward to:
• The largest selection of organically grown heirloom tomato varieties all in one place for easy shopping
• Organically grown vegetable starts from arugula to zucchini
• Native plants for your low maintenance garden
• Perennial edibles like berry bushes and other fruiting shrubs
• Medicinal herbs like English lavender, chamomile and yarrow
• Culinary herbs like Genovese basil, dill and chives
• Companion plants like marigolds, sweet cicely and comfrey
• Live music!

2018 VENDORS:

Saanich Organics

Metchosin Farm

Growceries

New Mountain Farm

Mason Street City Farm

Hatchet & Seed

Ravensong

Saanich Native Plants

Organic Gardener’s Pantry

Crooked Fir Farm & Nursery

Posted in Announcement, Blog, Events, Food Security, News, Organic GardeningTagged announcement, event, gardening, news, organic gardening, plant sale

Spring Soil Prep by Alysha Punnett

April 5, 2018

Read the article here.

Posted in Blog, Featured, Food Security, News, Organic GardeningTagged gardening, info, organic gardening, soil

Give the Gift of Good Food

November 30, 2014

Our neighbours at the Fernwood NRG’s Good Food Box are running a holiday fundraiser and we wanted to help spread the word!  Here’s the scoop:

Fernwood fundraiser will feed families all year

Donate and make a difference for a family struggling to meet their nutritional needs

This holiday season, Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group (Fernwood NRG) is raising money through their Give the Gift of Good Food fundraiser to support families who attend programs at the Fernwood Community Centre.

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Just Eat It Premiere!

November 13, 2014

Continue reading “Just Eat It Premiere!”

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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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