Join us on July 11 and August 29 to tour the gardens of local organic growers! We are excited to bring back the organic food garden tours for 2015. This year we have lined up 4 gardens for your touring pleasure.
July 11 - Around Town
The Ucwalmicw Community Garden: Our first stop of the day is a community garden with an organic garlic business. They grow all kinds of other fruits and vegetables. Garlic and peaches should be ready for the tour.
Alice Kidd's garden: The second stop is in the Hop Farm neighbourhood, where Alice Kidd uses permaculture techniques to grow food. She will show us how to apply principles of permaculture gardening in your own home garden.
August 29 - Texas Creek Road
Sue Senger's Garden: The first garden visit is with Sue Senger. Sue is an expert at all things garden. For the tour she will focus on seed saving - how to set up your garden properly to save seeds, and how to harvest and process seeds for sowing in future years.
Spray Creek Ranch: Our second stop is at Spray Creek Ranch, with new ranchers Tristan and Aubyn. They have many interesting techniques to share with us: integrating livestock in the veggie garden, using soil blocks for starting seeds, and building mandala garden beds.
If you would like to join us for the garden tours, meet at the REC centre parking lot at 10:00. We will travel together to the gardens. Bring a lunch and some cash, since the gardeners might be selling produce or farm fresh eggs!
If you have any questions about the garden tours, send us an email at lillooetfoodmatters@gmail.com.
We hope to see you there!
