Nanaimo Community Gardens Society

Our thanks to the volunteers from Team Home Depot for their efforts and generosity. These amazing volunteers came out to the Beban Learning Gardens bringing along their good attitudes and know-how and did a fantastic job constructing 5 new raised beds! We would also like to give our sincere thanks to Home Depot for their donation of gardening supplies and Sawmill Direct for providing the cedar.

The garden now has increased growing space and it’s exciting to have so much progress made in developing the facility.

Here we are heading into winter at Beban Learning Gardens!  We have just finished building 12 spacious compost boxes.  Thanks again to Sawmill Direct for helping us out with their fine cedar lumber.

After Christmas we can dismantle our temporary wooden-pallet style boxes which actually served us very well.  In place of them, we hope to plant a few more fruit trees early in the spring, being sure to give them time to become established before the hot dry weather later on.

We are happy to announce that we will be able to extend our Saturday morning work parties, at least until the end of March.  Both Wednesday and Saturday groups will soon be busy starting seedlings for planting and for sale in the spring.  New volunteers are welcome to join us at any time.

  

Volunteers at Beban Learning Gardens had a busy time this summer. Besides the regular jobs of watering, weeding, seeding and harvesting, we managed to put together some designer herb boxes and three fine-looking picnic tables.

Thanks very much to all the patrons who bought winter vegetable starters from us over the last few months. We have several planter boxes full of gorgeous winter crops planted and they look ready to cope with whatever winter weather comes their way!

New Picnic Table have been built and our next major project is having a permanent composting and soil storage area built.

Great news! We will finally be able to start a weekend work party beginning Saturday, Sept. 23. New volunteers, as well as seasoned ones, are welcome to come to Beban Learning Gardens every Saturday through December (barring any extreme weather) from 10 am to 1:00 pm, to take part in various gardening activities both inside and outside our greenhouse. Children are welcome as long as they are supervised by a parent. Activities might include transplanting, weeding, harvesting (and sharing the harvest), seed-saving, planting garlic, composting, building, painting, and all the other jobs involved in keeping our communal garden in tip-top shape. Education is our mission so you can expect to learn gardening knowledge from others as well as sharing what you yourself might know. The first work party will likely include a tour of the garden. Work clothes and gardening gloves are a good idea but we do have spare gloves to share.

Nanaimo Community Gardens membership forms will be available but, if you wish, you can take a look at them by clicking here.