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Eat your Garden

by mtippett | August 6, 2008 at 01:23 pm

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I just got this email from a neighborhood mailing list:

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How many of you are growing some food in your backyard? Do you have some
left-overs to share?

The City of Vancouver is recruiting home gardeners to contribute surplus
veggies and fruit to the "Grow-A-Row, Share-A-Row" program. By registering
with the program and donating your surplus to one of the west-side sites
below, you:

- show community spirit
- help build food security in our city
- help the City meet the "2010 challenge"

The 2010 Challenge was issued by Council in May 2006. The objective is to
have 2,010 new "community shared" garden plots in the city by the time of
the Winter Olympics. The city is still only about half-way there.

TO REGISTER YOUR GARDEN, contact:
<mailto:foodpolicy@vancouver.ca>foodpolicy@vancouver.ca.

To donate your garden surplus, go to one of the following locations:

    * Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
    * 2325 West 7th Avenue
    * Monday & Wednesday, 8:30am ? 7:30pm (Please use side door, up the ramp).
    * Marpole Oakridge Family Place
    * 1305 West 70th Avenue
    * Wednesday 1pm ? 3pm
    * West Side Family Place
    * 2819 West 11th Avenue
    * Monday - Thursday

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Barbara McPherson

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at 13:28 on August 6th, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. In Nanaimo you can donate extra garden produce to Loaves and Fishes.

eastvanray

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at 15:04 on August 6th, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Who receives the donated food?

SOLARLIFE

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at 01:00 on August 7th, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. "Eat your garden"; in france many condominiums allow only flowers, but people want to grow tomatoes. Every year springtime I plant my tomatoes and some 50 more, to give as a present to friends, also to biz partners. To make it easy I cut of the top of a 1.5 Ltr water bottle, fill her with soil, and the tomatoe. Tomatoes don' t like if their racines touch. This way with the water bottle planting you can have several on your window or balcony. To distribute, just cut the plastic of, put in the soil, they grow fast. 3 cm electric copper wire in the soil keeps the racines free of champignons.

Good Idea, I think how to copy it for the south.