Upcoming Events

A. Vermi-composting Workshop February 6, 2010

 KWUH is pleased to inform you that KW Urban Harvester is taking a next step and is hosting its first workshop of the year on Vermicomposting! Kitchener-Waterloo Urban Harvester is excited to host this public workshop wherein we will be outlining a simple composting method that anyone can use indoors, all year round. Process your household organic waste swiftly and have high quality humus for any of your gardening ventures. All are welcome.  Details as follows:

Date: February 6, 2010

Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Where: 55 Euclid Ave, Waterloo

Cost: $10

Please register by e-mailing Chaylene at kwurbanharvester@gmail.com by February 3, 2010.

B. Exploring Your New Farm Dream Course

Thinking about starting your own farm business?  Want to learn more about the opportunities and realities of farming?  Exploring Your New Farm Dream: Is Starting an Agricultural Business Right for You? is a course designed to help aspiring farmers learn what it takes to start and manage a commercial agricultural business. If you're interested in considering a future in farming this course will help you weigh your options and decide whether a farm business is the right path for you. Angie Koch of Fertile Ground CSA will be facilitating the Kitchener course which includes 4 evening sessions and 1 day of farm tours.    

Kitchener - The Working Centre (58 Queen St. South) Evening sessions: Wednesdays (6:30pm – 9:30pm), Feb 10, Feb 17, Mar 3, Mar 10

Farm tour: Saturday, Feb 20 (full day) For more information and to apply visit http://www.farmstart.ca/exploring-the-new-farm-dream

If you have questions contact Gayl at gayl@farmstart.ca or (519) 836-7046 x105 or talk to Angie 519-569-8690 info@fertilegroundcsa.com

C.   Extend the Growing Season; Cold Frame Building Workshop February 13, 2010 Toronto

Construct a complete modular & stackable Cold Frame to take home with you Get your garden off to an early spring start for 2010; and be ready to keep your garden growing next fall and right through the winter – without electricity or a greenhouse! Learn from Toronto’s Cold Frames and Season Extension Techniques leader!  Join Kyla Dixon-Muir, an experienced four-seasons gardener. Kyla’s book Growing To Eat – through all four seasons (Cloches, Cold Frames, Hot Beds, Raised Rows, and more…) is now in it’s third Canadian edition. Enquiries and registration: Kyla Dixon-Muir   coldframes@gmail.com

 1- 416 / 469-9507  (ext 2)   See www.riverdalemeadow.ca  for examples of Kyla’s easy systems of ColdFraming

Workshop Cost $ 125- per person.  Pre-registration required.         

All plans, materials, hardware, and tools will be provided.

If you can handle a screwdriver, staple gun, and drill you can do it!    

To be held at:  Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen Street East, Toronto (just east of Broadview, south side of Queen)

Saturday 13 February 2010, 9:30 am – 12 noon    

D. Seedy Saturdays will be returning to Kitchener February 20, 2010

Seedy Saturday is not one event, but an annual series of separate events, which have sprung up across the country, organized by Seeds of Diversity Canada (www.seeds.ca). Seedy Saturday is a non-profit public event, operated by volunteers.  It brings together home gardeners, seed savers, native plant collectors, agriculture conservation groups, community gardeners and local seed companies.  You can find help for your garden, swap your favourite seeds with other gardeners, and buy open-pollinated heritage seeds and plants which are not genetically engineered and which grow well in organic and low input conditions.

If you have any questions, contact Sheila Bauman, Seedy Saturday Committee Member/Events Planner Kitchener Public Library 519.743.0271 ext. 254 sheila.bauman@kpl.org