Please Vote for the Acadia Community Garden

Hi Everyone,  

Linda Berry is the lead for the Acadia Community Garden and I am also a volunteer working on it. Our grant application has been accepted for voting as a www.gigyyc.com grassroots project.  Please consider following the link and voting for the garden every day. Please ask your friends, family, co-workers to vote for the garden every day. It only takes a moment!   

The public and the Calgary 2012 Cultural Ambassadors vote and each month the projects with the most votes receive funding.  We had to change our original location sadly due to the main Atco gas line running through the site, but the City of Calgary found us a new home.   

We would use the funds to purchase materials for items like the raised garden beds, the compost bins and the shed for tools.   For more info about the grant and how you can to help - please see below....

http://www.gigyyc.com/event/2012/acadia-community-garden

Thank you for considering voting for this awesome project for Acadia!

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A Community Garden for Acadia

If you would like to have a Community Garden in Acadia, join us on the Acadia Community Garden Committee. A Community Garden gives people the opportunity to grow their own food or flowers in raised beds on public land. This enhances the health and wellness of everyone in the community.

We're planning to begin building a garden in Acadia in Spring 2013, and have secured a new site, but we still need to fulfill some City requirements, and do some serious fundraising, before we can build.

We need some dedicated volunteers to fill committee positions, as well as casual volunteers for everything from putting up posters, fundraising, building, and so on. If you have time and interest in this important community-building project, contact us at:

acadiagarden@yahoo.ca

Linda Berry at 403-270-8411

Corinne Sandhurst at 403-253-2577

Our next meeting is Wednesday, September 5, at 7:00 pm, at the Acadia Recreation Complex.

Acadia Garden Meeting Tonight - 7-9 at the Arc

Wed July 4th - 7 -9 pm.  Tonight -  Garden meeting and we have a home for our meetings right at the Acadia Rec Complex. Thank you to the Acadia Community Association for providing us with our home! 



We are looking at some new sites and would like as many in attendance as possible.  We hope you can make it!  

Build Day - June 16th Cancelled

Hi Everyone,

Our Build Day for the coming Saturday is cancelled, as I'm afraid I have some bad news. I contacted ATCO recently regarding getting their approvals to proceed with the garden within the pipeline right of way, and ATCO has denied us permission to put anything in within 35 meters of the pipeline, which is basically the entire space we had planned to put the garden in. Apparently this line is the main feed line for the entire city of Calgary, which means it's a little more important than just the regular street lines that feed our homes. At this point, our contact with the City of Calgary is looking into our options, including other potential sites within Acadia. Stay tuned for further developments.

Sincerely,

Linda Berry

Acadia Community Garden

Build First Box Sat June 16 10 am

Hello Acadia Community Garden Committee,

Yes, you read that correctly, we are having a build day! Well, sort of... we're building one 4X6 planter box, and a sign announcing the future site of the Acadia Community Garden.

We'd like you to be there. Come out to the dirt hump on Saturday, June 16th at 10am., and bring one plant of your choice to plant in the box.

We're putting this together out of leftover wood, so if you have any of the following, please bring them along too: scrap wood, leftover potting soil, leftover exterior paint, screws/nails.

I'll be bringing my tools along, and we'll try to have a few snacks and drinks available.

I look forward to seeing you there!  Sat, June 16 10 am

June 16 build a box and July 4th meeting

We are building our first planter box on Sat June 16th. Time to be announced.  It will be a landmark to show the community where the garden will be. All welcome to help build - watch fore more info.

Wed July 4th - 7 -9 pm.  Next Garden meeting and we have a home for our meetings right at the Acadia Rec Complex. Thank you to the Acadia Community Association for providing us with our home!

Please help get the word out!  Please talk to your neighbours and friends. If you know anyone in the apartments, please encourage them to come check it out!   It's a garden for our whole community!

Community Garden Agenda for June 6th

Acadia Community Garden

AGENDA

June 6^th, 2012

Welcome and Agenda Review 7:00pm

Review Minutes from May 3^rd meeting 7:10pm

Strong Neighborhood Initiative – Viviana and Tamara-City of Calgary 7:20pm

Sub-Committee Report 7:30pm

Design/Build Committee – Corinne, Geoff, Linda, Andy, Jeff, Janine

Guidelines/Expectations Committee – Sharon, Mindy, Patricia

Communications Committee – Corinne, Patricia

Financial Committee – Erin, Josh, Leah, Jeff

Community/Surveying Committee – Mindy, Sharon, Patricia, Erin

New Business 8:00pm

Announcements 8:10pm

Set next meeting date 8:15pm

Wrap up and evaluation of meeting 8:20pm

Confirmed Meeting Location June 6 7-9 pm C0-OP

Wed. June 6th 7 -9 pm at:

Acadia Calgary Co-op:

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

The Cafe is on the north west corner inside the store.  Please come prepared to support our community Co-Op with purchase of a coffee or....  Co-op confirmed its fine for us to use the cafe as long as we support the cafe while we are there.

http://www.letsfind.ca/ca/alberta/calgary/coop-macleod-centre/1655