Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga
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SEEDY SATURDAY 2012Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga 84 South Service Road, Mississauga
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9:30 HOMEGROWN HARVEST Learn about starting your own vegetable garden from seed, including how to build or choose a growing spot, marking organizing seed starting mix, and selecting from several Heirloom vegetables (tomato, leek, bulb onion, or apartment salad box) to plant and take home with you. Presenter: Carolyn Bailey, Urban Agriculture Program, EcoSource
10:30 FUSION LANDSCAPING A modern approach to outdoor living encompasses affordability, lower maintenance and conserves water. Learn how bringing together traditional gardens with eco-friendly plants, colours, and textures, has allowed a new trend to emerge - Fusion Landscaping. Presenter: Gino Piscelli, Region of Peel
11:30 TRANSFORMING A DREARY 1950’S SUBURBAN BUNGALOW & LOT INTO A VIBRANT ECOSPHERE Come find out how we cut our carbon footprint in half and transformed a typical suburban bungalow and lot into a vibrant green space where we grow much of our fresh produce using Permaculture principles, produce more electricity than we consume, capture and reuse on-site rainwater, etc. Presentation will include before/after slides, brief explanation, a short 5-minute WebTV documentary, and lots of time for Q&A about how some of this might apply in your own contexts. Presenter: Dr. Blake Poland
12:30 CONTAINER GARDENING Martha Kantorczyk, winner of the 2008 Mississauga in Bloom competition for container gardening, will discuss the basics of choosing the right container, planting and maintenance, design and plant combinations. This workshop will include a demonstration of designing and planting a Spring-themed container. Presenter: Martha Kantorczyk
1:30 HERBS IN YOUR GARDEN A discussion of herbs that you can grow yourself, why you would want to grow these particular ones and how you would use them once grown, some fresh, some dried. Also included will be herbs that seed themselves as well as those you have to help along each year. I will show how I start seeds and bring some herbal teas from my garden to sample. Presenter: Susan Elliotson, Registered Herbalist, Board Member Ontario Herbalists Association
2:30 GROWING FOOD - ALL YEAR LONG (AND EAT LOCAL, TOO) Kyla Dixon-Muir has been in the garden every single week – including right through the winter – for a number of years. She grows foods in a wide range of low-cost and no-cost ColdFrames, many of which do not require construction skills. Learn how to apply Season Extension Techniques to get as much as a two-month head start on growing foods this spring – and to build Raised Beds, and to keep foods growing for longer into the fall. Presenter: Kyla Dixon-Muir, Development Coordinator, Riverdale Meadow Community Garden
3:30 BEES - THEIR IMPORTANCE The critical role of bees in pollination and humankind – and their challenges for survival. Presenter: Andre Flys, Pioneer Brand Honey & Nuts
Co-sponsors: Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga and Seeds of Diversity Canada |