Looking forward to seeing our members at the spring meeting. We will be collecting signed User Agreements and fees at the meeting. We will set some plan for the year ahead as well as set a date for our annual BBQ! We are still working on booking the room, so check your emails closer to the meeting date but we are hoping to book the library for 2pm!
Location TBA closer to date!
Join us and meet your fellow gardeners on Sunday February 25th from 2pm to 4pm.
We will be accepting in-person membership payments and signing. As well, we will take the time to review Fall AGM items. Finally, we set a tentative date for the BBQ.
Plot and membership fees are due Monday March 4th, 2024. The late fee is $20 with no exception. Failure to pay in a timely manner may lead to forfeiture of the plot.
Pandora Park Community Garden AGM:
Sunday November 5th, 2023 @ 2 pm
Location: TBA
AGM package materials and updates to be sent to garden member’s emails.
Check your emails! We have recently sent to members last year’s minutes for approval at the AGM. Don’t forget to bring cash for the honey sale! Honey is $10 a jar, email us if you are interested so we can gauge interest!
See you all there!
Due to Covid-19, instead of monthly Work Parties, we will have Garden Teams to help tend our common areas. Garden Teams may work asynchronously or in groups. At all times, Covid-19 restrictions will be respected. It is the expectation that each Society member will contribute at least 16 hours to their Garden Team.
Community volunteers are welcome to join in and help tend the common areas, please contact us via email first and we will connect you to a Garden Team Leader!
Sunday February 13th, 2022: Want to sign your User Agreement and pay the annual membership fee in person? Come to PPCG between 2-3pm. We take cash, cheque and e-transfers. There will be User Agreement forms available for you. Membership fees are due March 1st, 2022, there is a $20 late fee for payment after this date.
Some of the resources available to the community is Pandora Park Community Garden’s Common plots and Seed Library. Since the inception of the garden there have always been Common Plots. Common Plots are for folks from the community to garden for free, as well as a place for plot members to plant any of their surplus plants. Usually, annual edible plants are grown in these plots since the perimeter plots are designated for non-edible plants (flowers & perennials).
The idea behind these Common Plots is to be a place for people who do not have their own growing space to have a place to grow their own food. It is for folks on the waitlist waiting for their own plot or transient folks who might not want to commit to a long term garden plot but wants to participate in some gardening in the meantime. Gardeners within the garden can also plant their surplus seeds and plants they cannot use in their own plot. Since this is a common space, all planted in the plot belongs to the community. This means that anyone can harvest the goods in the plots. This also means that users of this space need to respect each other’s plants and share the growing space. For the space to work, gardeners will need to label the plants they grow, help with removing common weeds (buttercups) and not remove unfamiliar plants.
To help maintain the space, there is a working team of PPCG gardeners to help take care of the plots, organize planting days and do general maintenance work throughout the growing season. The team does long term planning for the plots but overall, we try keep this space laissez-faire.
In 2021, the garden received a donation of a seed library made by community members. In the library, you will find seeds donated by growers in the garden and the community. For the 2022 growing season, the seed library got a NSG grant to produce some educational resource material on how to use the seed library and Common Plots. In addition, through the grant, new seeds will be added to the library. Finally, with the grant the garden has acquired some plant labels to label the perennials in the garden.
Photos of the three common plots at the beginning of the 2021 growing season, after the addition of new soil. Fourth photos is from the end of the season, with an acorn squash grown in the plot. Photo Credit: L.Zhu
Upcoming Work Parties – remember to enter your work in the log book
• Saturday March 23 – 10 a.m. – empty compost and do composting workshop
• Sunday April 28 – 10 a.m. – beautification and dump run
• Saturday May 25 – 10 a.m.
• Sunday June 23 – 10 a.m.
• Saturday July 27 – 10 a.m.
• Sunday August 25 – afternoon – barbecue celebration party!
• Saturday September 21 – 10 a.m.
• Sunday October 27 – Garden AGM – 3-5pm
