Dunsmuir Community Garden Group

Check out our latest newsletter! June 2019 Newsletter

Please share with your contacts! Due to a couple of withdrawals, we have two plots available to lease at Crescent Park Community Garden, located at 128th and 25th. Given the advancing season, they are available at a discounted price of $15 plus $10 membership in Alexandra Neighbourhood House (a $10 saving). If you are interested, email Neil at  communityprograms@alexhouse.net . Applications including payment will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. The only requirement is that the applicant may NOT already have a community garden plot.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN  for THE VANCOUVER MASTER GARDENERS | BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM STARTING IN JANUARY 2020 Hello Gardeners, If you are a beginner, a long time gardener or anyone in between, this course will provide you with a solid grounding in the basics (~ which even experienced gardeners will learn from), the most up to date horticultural information, resource material, contacts and a large gardening, environmentally focused network. We have heard many students who have been gardening for years say they wished that they had taken this course sooner as it would have saved them time, energy and money … given them more creative or feasible gardening ideas/solutions … very much shortened their learning curves … and corrected or improved their long-standing horticultural practices. We are facing new challenges in gardening i.e. climate change, sustainability, regeneration, smaller or no yards, food security and evolving ecologically sensitive ways to deal with pests ...

SPRING CLEAN UP!!   Saturday April 27th, 2019 9am - 1pm Time to Get our Hands DIRTY & BAND together to make for another SUCCESSFUL Gardening Season! You are NEEDED to Help! It's our annual Spring Clean Up! Please report to the Garden Shed Welcome BOOTH to sign in! Wear your gardening clothes and gloves! You will be directed to where you can help! You will be entered to WIN!!... what?? well an AWESOME T-shirt!

Hello Dunsmuir Gardeners! We cannot wait to see everyone at our:  Dunsmuir Garden Group Annual General Meeting , Saturday March 9, 2019 9:30am – 12pm Ocean Park Community Hall 1577 128th St, Surrey, BC V4A 3V1 The Homework …. yes… unfortunately a little pre-reading is required this year! To preserve paper we have sent the following documents for you to review before attendance. We will be voting on these changes. •        AGM Minutes from 2018 - These will not be read at the meeting. Please review. This will be voted on at the meeting. •        AGM Agenda for 2019 - This document will be printed out and available at the meeting. To be Accepted at Meeting. •        Fiscal Financial Report for 2018 - This document will not be printed out. Please review, to be discussed at meeting. •        Dunsmuir Garden Group Constitution -...

Dunsmuir Annual General Meeting Ocean Park Community Hall 1577 – 128 Street, Surrey March 9, 2019 – 9:30AM - 12pm

November is HERE! All the gardens are being put to sleep....but many are still abundant as they move into winter crops! Wow! We really have some amazing gardeners! Just in case you are wondering... Winter Inspection will occur on Monday so make sure you are in progress of cleaning up for the season...of course we love winter gardening! 12-vegetables-you-can-grow-in-winter preparing-your-garden-for-the-long-vancouver-winter winter-gardening