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!

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.