Wildman Appearance in the Garden!!

Our Mural Artists - Dani & Emily:

Lovely Ladies:

 Dirty Hands:

And then, much later in the day, 

Guess who showed up!!!???

A Wildman in Blue!

(and then, eventually, some wanna be wild men...)

Snacks!

Big Thank You to Elaine for putting in these signs - now we know what to pick & how to pick it!!

Our first Lunch & Learn - Our first Harvest!!

On Wednesday June 22nd (at 12:15), Dede Bone (Community Kitchens Coordinator) and Elaine Sedgman (Master Gardenere) lead our first-ever Lunch and Learn. Elaine lead us through a short workshop on how to properly harvest Mizuna, Pansies, Lettuce, and Nasturtium for a delicious salad. Dede than created a masterpiece salad for all of us to try. Fratellis donated chickpeas and black beans - which added protein and deliciousness to the salad. 
Wednesday confirmed that our garden is growing beautiful AND delicious food. The vegetables listed above are ready for harvest, so come down to the garden and eat!!
We will be hosting more lunch and learns - bring your lunch down to the garden and join us...Keep posted for upcoming dates.

Dede - Our Oh So Lovely (and colour-coordinated)
 Community Kitchens Coordinator

Composting Workshop

On Tuesday June 21, Sally Andrysiak (Master Composter and Master Gardener in Training) lead a composting workshop on site. She reviewed the various methods of composting and revealed some really effective tricks. Thanks for doing this Sally!! 


The TNRD donated a compost bin for the workshop and it is in the garden to stay. It you're strolling and snacking downtown, drop your apple cores and strawberry tops in the compost bin rather than the garbage!! Stay tuned for more workshops!!

2 Workshops Happening in the Garden this Week!

Join us for 2 workshops this week! 

Tuesday (tomorrow!!) June 21 - 4:30 pm : COMPOSTING WORKSHOP. Learn the basics of composting (so you can become a master) with Sally, a local Master Composter. This workshop will be held on site at 4:30 pm and is open to everyone. Bring your apple cores and banana peels!

Wednesday June 22 - 12:15 pm : HARVESTING SPRING GREENS (Our first everLUNCH & LEARN)! Join Elaine (Master Gardener) & Dede (Community Kitchens Coordinator) to learn how to harvest early spring greens! Dede will share a simple & delicious recipe with us too! There may even be a few samples... Bring your lunch over to the garden and leave with healthy, local recipe ideas. 

If you have friends who work downtown, please tell them about these workshops. We'd love to have a great turn out for our first workshops ever !! See you in the garden!!

One additional note: We delivered edible containers to downtown businesses today - big thanks goes out to: Brownstone Restaurant, KPA Printers, Beauty Code, Fratellis, Cafe Motivo, The Art We Are, Fresh Cafe, Hello Toast, Hot House Bistro, and Pure Cuisine for partnering with us by adopting an edible. 

We've adopted a few plants..

The edible landscaping that was done at the library has been uprooted & relocated. We've adopted them ...

A Few of the Delectable Edibles at the Library - on the evening before the plants were uprooted.

The City Dropped the Plants off On-Site on Friday Morning.

Most of the plants will be donated to designate plots in one of the local community gardens (the harvest will then be donated to the foodbank!!), a few will go to the Kamloops Daily News for their first ever edible garden, and the rest we have planted on site. 

What an interesting week it's been. We are curious to know what everyone is thinking about this controversial plant-in and equally controversial uproot. Please send us an email if you have an opinion (publicproduceproject@gmail.com). This is a great opportunity to gain public input and begin thinking about the future of edible landscaping: the pros, cons, questions, and ideas!! 

P.S. A letter to the editor of the paper or to the TNRD isn't a bad idea either :)

We received a bit of media coverage this week too:
http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20110617/KAMLOOPS0101/306179975/-1/kamloops01/guerilla-garden-transplanted-to-produce-project

Adopt-An-Edible

We will be giving out planters full of EDIBLES to downtown businesses over the next week... 

(they are ready to go!!)

Our participants so far include:

Fratelli Foods - 223 Victoria Street

Fresh Cafe -

Hello Toast - 428 Victoria Street

Hot House Bistro - 438 Victoria Street

Pure Cuisine - 442 Victoria Street

The Grind -

Total Ten - 230 Victoria Street

If you are a business (or know of a business) that may be interested in adopting an edible...

Send us an email publicproduceproject@gmail.com