Nanaimo Community Gardens' Family Garden Days

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Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Join us for two days of educational gardening activities at our Pine Street Community Garden. This free family event is sponsored by Island Savings GIFT grant and will include free workshops for families, food, live music and a wide selection of naturally grown, open-pollinated heritage plants, seeds and compost worms.



Children�s activities include face painting, planting seeds, crafts, a stepping stone workshop, music and puppets and a visit from Penny the Owl, Islands Savings cute mascot.



Master Gardeners will be on site to happily answer any gardening questions you may have and local agencies will be providing information for the whole weekend. Local food vendors will have their wares available to purchase and we will be harvesting some rhubarb for the occasion to sell.

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The family friendly workshop schedule is:

Saturday 10:30am � composting with Craig Evans of Providence Farm

11:30am � Children�s stepping stones workshop

2pm � Tour of the garden with Lee Sanmiya

Sunday 11am � Composting and the Green Bin Program with the Nanaimo Recycling Exchange

Noon � Water Quality with the Nanaimo Recycling Exchange

1:30 pm � Lasagna Gardening Demonstration with Connie Kuramoto of Gaia College

2:30pm � Tour of the Garden with Lee Sanmiya

More workshops may be added at the last minute so check our events page for the most up to date information.

http://www.nanaimocommunitygardens.ca/events.php