Q & A Social Night this Wednesday 7 pm at Acadia's Calgary CO-OP Community Room

It's our Acadia Community Garden and Art Society Q & A Social Night this Wednesday- no agenda, just having fun chatting about the garden plans & what we are all growing, and dreaming about what to put in the experimental ethnic edible beds, and herb beds.

LOCATION: At Calgary Co-op Macleod Centre (in Acadia)
We were able to book the wonderful community room on the second floor this month! There is a flight of stairs to reach it.
If you can not manage the stairs, please let us know and we will see what other arrangements we can make.

Hurray! Thank you Calgary CO-OP!.

TIME:  7-8:30 pm

All Welcome!  Yes you can bring your kids!

If you would like coffee/tea - you can purchase it in the store coffe bar. We will provide water & cookies from our wonderful Calgary CO-OP.

Address:  Co-op Macleod Centre

8818 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2H 0M4

4 more beds completed and soil coming on Tuesday!

What an amazing build today!  Andy, Kierra and I thought we were the only ones that were coming and throughout the build at least 15 other gardeners, including four amazing community youth) showed up and helped.  It was so inspiring!  Thank you everyone!

We met a wonderful group of young people growing beautiful tomato plants in their greenhouse.

We also met a lovely woman from Kazakhstan that is going to help us with the the ethnic community bed. She is researching the seeds that her mother planted in Kazakshstan when she was young for us.  If you have ideas for our ethnic edible experimental bed, it will be ready to plant after the next build.

We will be building more beds in the next couple of weeks - two community beds to share with everyone in the community - the ethnic edibles bed and the herbs and lettuces bed!  We will also get started on the composting system!

We started at 9 am and finished around 1:30 pm.  What a great day in the sun!

Thank you to the Acadia Strong Neighbourhood Initiative Grant for making the compost and shared community bed build possible!

If you have a great idea, please talk to them and see if you can apply for a grant for your great idea too!

The Gardening Season begins at the Acadia Community Garden and Our First Build of the Seaon May 17th 9:00 am

Here is an exciting message from the Acadia Community Garden and Art Society's fearless Build Leader, Andy!
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The water has been turned on!

We will be building 4 new raised beds on Sat. May 17, starting at 9:00 AM.

All who are able to volunteer to help are invited. 

Tools to bring if you have them are: shovel, edging tool, cordless drill/screwdriver, knife to cut cardboard,

Keys to the garden shed will be distributed to those gardeners who don't have one.

Instruction to watering system will be available.

They will be filled with garden soil mid next week, weather permitting for 3 gardeners on the wait list to be able to garden!

Thanks,

Andy

May Hello Acadia Newsletter - Acadia's 5th Annual Spring Clean Up Sat May 10th 9-2 pm.

The "Hello Acadia" newsletter is out. Acadia's 5th Annual Spring Clean up is happening Sat May 10th. 9 am - 2 pm .

Details are on page 8. 

It's a wonderful event the Acadia Community Association (ACA) holds each year. They are looking for more volunteers, in case you have some time to volunteer. Free coffee provided. Please contact Frankie at 403-259-2660 if you are able to help.

There is lots of interesting info in the May Hello Acadia. Please check it out and considering getting involved with the ACA if you aren't already!

link to Hello Acadia - May 2014
https://secure.mindsdesign.ca/Site//files_user/1398709167670.pdf

Note: The community garden is looking for good condition rakes, shovels, pitch forks, watering cans, hoses, etc. if you are spring cleaning out your gardening supplies, and don't need them anymore. Please contact acadiagarden@yahoo.ca and we can arrange pick up. Thank you!