Welcome

Fill your Garden at the CVGSS 4th Annual Spring Plant Sale
Simms Park, Courtenay
9am-noon, Saturday May 15

Come for ready-to-plant seedlings. Dozens of varieties of heirloom tomatoes, greens n' beans, cukes n' squash, herbs n' more! Bring your questions about seed-saving and vegetable gardening for the Master Gardeners table, and many enthusiastic seed savers will be there happy to share. Quilt raffle draw at noon.

For more information, contact coordinator Jonathan Schut, ph#250-703-4538, yayjonny@yahoo.com.

Annual General Meeting

The CVGSS AGM is Monday June 14th from 7 - 9 pm in the Evergreen Seniors Lounge at the Florence Filberg Center in Courtenay. Check our AGM page here for details and updates.

Featuring a talk on permaculture by Jesse Lemieux
Seed Exchange Committee

The CVGSS board has authorized a new committee to examine all issues concerning seed exchange. Anybody interested in participating is most welcome. Please contact Susan Holvenstot or Arthur Ralfs via the contact page.

Seed Saving

If you need envelopes for the Seedy Saturday seed exchange for 5 March 2011 they will be available at Zen Zero and the Seed Packing bees. Vivien has also volunteered to let people drop off seeds at her house vivienadams1@hotmail.com for people who can't make it to any of the packing bees.

Please fill out the grower's form DataBaseform for your seed donation and email it to Elise hara01@telus.net or bring it to a seed packing bee. If you have your own pictures of your varieties, please send those too.

Our Demo Garden

The next Seed Saving Workshop is on Saturday, September 18th, 2010. There will be a new handout but here is last year's handout. Seed Saving 101. If you would like to be a Demo Garden Volunteer please contact Elise hara01@telus.net.

Demo Garden

Special thanks to our Demo Garden Donors

Slegg Lumber

We sincerely thank Al Stevens and Kelly Klassen for their generous donation of the cedar lumber for our three new raised beds.

Home Depot

Thank you Eric M. and Mark L. for your donation of plumbing material and garden hose. The plumbing supplies will be used to construct a cover for our new winter gardening raised bed and the garden hose for regular watering.

Corix Water Products

Thank you Graham McMullen for your expertise in the micro irrigation applications and most recently your discounted price on our required supplies. You will see your material in use throughout our Demonstration Garden, within the greenhouse as well as all the raised beds.

Central Builders Supply

Thank you Rick Fisher for selling us plumbing supplies at cost.

Last but not least

Thank you to Stan Kirkland for contacting the aforementioned. Thanks to you, we now have three new Demo Garden Beds and many people had a chance to learn about their set up.

kale seeds
Meetings
  • Board meetings are open to all members. They are held on the 4th Monday evening of each month, with a break in July & August, and usually last two hours. Check the Calendar of Events for times and location. We welcome any member to attend and contribute ideas and suggestions. Our Annual General Meeting is usually held in early June; an invitation is sent to all members.
  • Meet our Board Members

Public Presentations

  • We are offering presentations on popular and seasonal topics for our members and the general public, usually 4 times per year until we get more members willing to volunteer to organize events (April, July, September and November). Check the Calendar of Events for exact date, time & location. These presentations are open to the public by donation, free for members.

Other CVGSS Events and Activities include

plantsale1
  • Seedy Saturday
    Thanks to our great volunteers our 10th annual event was a great success. Click here for more info. See pictures here.
  • Demonstration Garden & Seed Saving Project Go to the page Our Demo Garden for a look at the latest workshops. If you would like to be a volunteer in the upcoming season please contact Vivien Adams.
  • Quarterly Newsletter The CVGSS newsletter is published each February, May, August and November. The submission due dates for 2010 are: January 22nd , April 23rd, July 23rd and October 22nd. The newsletter provides members with current information about events and the planning of upcoming activities. It is a forum for CVGSS members to share tips, stories and resources on growing and seed saving as well as other relevant gardening and community information. CVGSS members are invited to submit articles and photos or list items for sale/trade/buy in our "Members' Billboard".

    Advertising If you have a business related to gardening or seed saving, rates for a business card size, print ready ad is $15.00 per issue or two issues for $25.00

  • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Thank you to everyone who added their names to the volunteer sign up, you can still volunteer by sending in the form below, or contacting Vivien or Anne.
    • Volunteer, and be a part of Seedy Saturday, the Spring Plant Sale, staff the CVGSS booth at fun events and much more.
    • Watch this space for more information on Volunteer Commitee Activities.

    Meet new friends, share knowledge and make a difference!