Soul of the City Grant & Annual General Meeting for the Acadia Community Garden and Art Society April 16 at Acadia's Co-op community room at 7 pm

The AGM for the Acadia Community Garden and Art Society is:

Wed April 16 at 7 pm (tomorrow)

Acadia's Calgary Co-OP Community Room (second floor) 

It will be followed by a bit of social time and a brief mandatory gardener's meeting

Everyone Welcome!

------Soul of the City Grant ------

Wow! Laurie and I presented last night at Soul of the City event. Our project, with our fabulous partners, The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour is Acadia Grows: Art and Garden Come Together!

There were 7 other incredible projects presented and we thought it would be so hard to choose the five winners. Its was inspiring to hear all their project ideas!

We didn't make it to the top 5....but at the end, Calgary Economic Development announced that all the projects were so compelling that they felt all 8 should be funded!

So.... we are delighted to announce that, with our partners, The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, we are hosting a fabulous community block party at the garden and inviting all that come to help paint a multicultural mural. We are planning for August 9th. Thank you Soul of the City! Thank you Calgary Economic Development!

More details to come soon! Thank you to everyone that supported us in this project and encouraged us to try!

Soul of the City Neighbours Grant Application - we made it to the final rounds!

Acadia Community Garden and Art Society and our fabulous charitable partner, The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour - We did it! We made it to the next round of the Soul of the City Neighbour Grant application.

We are in the final 8 of 41 applications!

We put together our awesome project: Growing Acadia: Art and Garden Come Together! More details to come!

Please show your support of this project please! Tweet about us, comment on our facebook and blog! You can buy tickets and help select the winners too!

Twitter @corinnesandhrst (just leave out the u in my last name)
hashtag: #acadiacommunitygarden
Blog - http://acadiacommunitygarden.blogspot.ca/
From the Soul of the City webpage...

"HELP US DECIDE THE WINNERS OF THE SOUL OF THE CITY NEIGHBOUR GRANTS

Thank you to the dozens of people/community groups who applied for a Soul of the City Neighbour Grant. Join us to select the grant winners at the 10th Soul of the City event, ‘Celebrating Community’ Monday, April 14 at Vertigo Theatre. Soul of the City Neighbour Grants is a partnership initiative of Calgary Economic Development and The Calgary Foundation."

You can find out more at this link! Come on out and support this home grown Acadia application!

Thank you for your support! Please share the news!

Corinne Sandhurst
President
Acadia Community Garden and Art Society


http://www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com/why-calgary-be-part-energy/soul-city

Soul of the City

www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com

Calgarians; do you dream of creating something great for your community? Maybe it’s a community garden, a neighbourhood mural, a 

Annual General Meeting - Acadia Community Garden and Art Society - Wed April 16 7-8:30 pm Acadia's Calgary Co-Op Community Room

The April Annual General Meeting followed by a Mandatory Gardener's meeting of the Acadia Community Garden and Art Society will be:

Wed April 16 7-8:30 pm 
Acadia's Calgary Co-Op Community Room - Thank you Calgary Co-Op!

All are welcome to come out to this meeting! Please consider taking a role in this fabulous outdoor gathering and rental raised garden bed space.

Voting members are paid raised bed gardeners and the executive of the Acadia Garden and Art Society.

Next gathering of the Acadia Community Garden Thursday, March 20th 7-8 pm at the Acadia Co-Op Coffee Shop (note the change of date please)

7-8  pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014 - Garden get together - All Welcome - Our meeting date this week had to be changed. Sorry! We are meeting at the Acadia Co-op coffee shop at 7 - 8 pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Sorry!! 

We will be sharing our executive summary and annual report, and reviewing the awesome Acadia Community Garden and Art Society job descriptions - come on out and learn all about the garden. All of you wonderful regulars - come out and visit your garden friends!

For anyone that missed the last October article in the Calgary Herald Neighbours, here is the link to "Community Gardens Celebrate Success  http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=eb63092e-476d-40f9-9049-feb7145e2072

The blog does not get updated as much as our facebook site. Please check us out on facebook under Acadia Community Garden!

We look forward to seeing you!

Corinne Sandhurst

President

Acadia Community Garden and Art Society

Queensland Garden Club - Wed. March 5th at 7 pm.

Next Meeting for the Queensland Garden Club is 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 7 pm at the side door of the Queensland Community off the parking lot.

The topic - 
Do-it-Yourself Garden Decor
With Marlene Schneider & Darlene Burke

It will be a wonderful session. First meeting is free and then $10.00 to join for the year.

Acadia Community Garden folk are going on a Field trip - Feb 5th. We will not have our own meeting in Feb. / Acadia Community Garden is taking names for Raised Beds

The Acadia Community Garden folks are going on a field trip to Queensland Garden Club on Feb 5th. We will not hold our own meeting this month. 

You are welcome to join us and make some new gardening friends at the Queensland Garden Club....

Let us know if you would like a carpool at acadiagarden@yahoo.ca

From the Queensland Garden Club - February 5th at 7 PM at the Queensland Community Centre, 649 Queensland Drive S.E. Our meeting is in a room at the back of the community hall and has it’s own entrance door at the top of a short flight of stairs (sometimes we remember to put a sign on the door that says “Queensland Garden Club”. ). Guests are welcome to attend their first meeting for free, and we encourage people to join our club after that for the amazingly awesome price of $10/year.

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Note - Acadia Community Garden is taking names and assigning raised bed boxes for 2014 growing season. email us at acadiagarden@yahoo.ca to sign up or for more info. Three sizes of boxes or you can take a 1/2 box:

10 x 4 $50.00
8 x 4 $40.00
6 x 4 $30.00

Please send us your choices in order of preference - we will do our best to accommodate your request on a first come, first serve basis.

Happy New Year!

Acadia Community Gardeners - we received this lovely invite from Joanne of the Queensland Garden Club. Joanne did an awesome presentation for us in November on Winter Sowing. 

"Just wanted to remind you that members of the Acadia Community Garden group are welcome to attend the Queensland Garden Club’s talk this Wednesday. The focus will be tips on growing Veggies in Calgary, Seed Starting and I will do a short demo on Winter Sowing. The first two topics will be covered by two other ladies in our club, so you guys wouldn’t have to listen to me again.

Our meetings start at Wed, January 8 at 7 pm at the Queensland Community Center, 649 Queensland Drive S.E."

Its free to attend our first meeting free and we are welcome to join for $10.00 annual fee.

Thank you to the Queensland Garden Club for this generous invitation!