The We Dig Food! therapeutic garden project with Hinchinbrook Farm is expanding. It’s sporting an arbour, a bean teepee and new raised beds!
We Dig Food!’s new raised beds, arbour and teepee for beans.
We Dig More Food!
Category Archives: Gardening
We Dig Food! Garden is Expanding
Hemlock beams for new beds in the We Dig Food garden were delivered last week. The soil will arrive this week. The We Dig Food! garden is a partnership project of neighbouring Hinchinbrook Farm, which works with special needs children, including … Continue reading →
Hawthorne Hedge
Jeanette Poirier has been planting a hedge along the edge of the Blockhouse School lands fronting School Road. It is half finished! We also have 1-year-old European Hawthorne trees for sale from our permaculture nursery. European Hawthorne (Crataegus oxyacanthoides) is an … Continue reading →
Haskap Talk on July 8
Liam Tayler of LaHave Natural Farms will be coming to The Blockhouse School on Tuesday July 8 to give a presentation about growing Haskap berries at 2 pm, during the Farmers’ Market and the Permaculture Design Course. These highly nutritious and … Continue reading →
Therapeutic Garden Info
A variety of requests are coming in from folks who want to get involved in the Therapeutic Garden Project. This is very encouraging. As this is a volunteer initiative, we are still working through the growing pains of getting it … Continue reading →
Coldframes to extend your gardening season
We have coldframes for sale! With a coldframe, you can eat your own salads in April, keep greens going through the winter, start seeds at all times of year and more! Set it up in a sunny spot, facing south, and garden … Continue reading →
Therapeutic Garden
UPDATE: March 2014: This project has received the runner-up prize, including $500 funding and some technical assistance, from the Nova Scotia Cooperative Council’s Social Enterprise Innovation Competition! In partnership with our neighbour, Hinchinbrook Farm, which provides a therapeutic riding program … Continue reading →
It’s not too late to start working on a garden plot
Even though it’s August already, you could still get started on a garden plot. Even starting with sod! Rather than strenuous double digging, it’s easier to build gardens on top of the sod lasagna-style. By laying down corrugated cardboard and … Continue reading →
Help Us Plan a Workshop by Taking a Short Survey
UPDATE April 2013: We won’t be holding this workshop this year, but may bring the presenter, Bonita Ford, to Nova Scotia in the future. Your responses to the survey may still be useful, so you’re welcome to do the survey … Continue reading →
Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) in May-June 2013
[singlepic id=269 w=300 h=225 float=right]May 25 – June 9, 2013: Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) residential intensive. The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized, seventy-two hour course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. It provides an introduction to permaculture design as … Continue reading →