Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week. Here is the plan for the class on Saturday, August 10th.

1 – Meeting and check in at St. George Church 

2 – Going through the food forest project, the front yard and the backyard and spotting the changes from the last visit,

3 – Spot any pest or disease

4 – Recognize the crops which are ready to harvest,

5 – Replacing the harvested crops with other annual vegetables,

6 – Define the invasive plants, the cause of having them and the ways to compete with them.

7 – Harvesting and spreading part of the mature compost

8 – Gother seedlings and prepare them for transfer to the farm,

9 – Moving to the farm at Senneville,

10 – Going through the farm and the plot at patchwork and spotting the changes from the last visit,

11 – Spot any pest or disease

12 – Recognize the crops which are ready to harvest,

13 – Seeds harvesting, processing, labelling and saving (please bring small zip pages or any containers/plastic bags),

14 – Inspect your assigned plot, work on your project in your assigned plot, weeding, removing suckers, incurring plants on the trellis and helping others in building the trellises,

15 – Harvest your crops

16 – Wrap-up and discussion

17 – Social economy approaches to urban agriculture:

Please also go through the presentation “Cultivating-Urban-Greenspaces-Introduction” attached here, we will discuss it in the future Saturdays in the fall.