dirtpile work-bee

Hey everybody - we have a big pile of dirt to move! 8yds: a lot bigger than it looks! We also ought to go and get a rock border for the new bed that will hold the dirt. This is a call out for a work party sometime in the next two weeks. Please read below and reply to me or post on the blog what day/evening might be good for you to come. This way, maybe we can have as many people help out together as possible.

So... please respond with your best 2 times to get out with a shovel and wheel barrow over the next two weeks. By Friday or Saturday I'll try to pick the most popular seeming times and will let you all know.

More specific job run-down:

Big pile of dirt (first priority). We will fill the beds to 4-6 inches and then transport the remainder to our back fence.

Rock border for the Brock Street ornamental bed (second priority, but best done first). we are not bound to do this, but it would make it look really nice to edge the beds with chunks of limestone rock. If enough people say are willing, we can vehicle convoy over to a site across the causeway and load up our vehicles with nice pieces of free limestone. I think we need 6 loads. As a bonus you'll learn the 'secret' site. Exciting!

Yael has done a lot of work planning out the garden and has already purchased the plants (paid for by UK). Nikki (our newest gardner) has some of the plants at home already, and will plant them when the beds are ready.


Thanks, and see you soon!
Mike

call for tomato foster care

Hi - I'm passing out a call for tomato foster-care on behalf of the Loving Spoonful, a foodshare like pilot program for kingston. They are involved in a foodraiser that supports the buddhist centre fundraiser. Respond to Susan if you are interested in helping:


The Tomato Project is Out of Control!!

Thanks to an overwhelming response to the latest donation initiative (partnering with the Buddhist Centre to receive donated tomato seedlings) we now have many, many tiny tomato seedlings (2-3" tall, most of them) which need homes. We have about 80!

I need people who can foster these plants through the summer and donate the produce back at harvest time. We'll have a big weigh-in and it'll be fun! Community gardens, your back yard, wherever! I have planted about 15, but that's all I have room for. Anyone?????

Thanks

Susan Belyea
Coordinator, Loving Spoonful
Cooperative Food Distribution Initiative
Kingston, ON
(613) 583-2055