June 30, 2011
The 2011 growing season is upon us!
Can You Dig It's second season is blooming, with 20 gardens and hundreds of gardeners and volunteers throughout the Lower Mainland. We are currently working on an updated web-site that will feature loads of information on how to create community inclusive gardens. Stay tuned, and become part of this growing movement!
Check out some of our latest media coverage:
Kaslo community garden
(now called Still Creek community garden), BCIT Magazine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pzEJxF3Xo
New community gardens sprouting up, but wait lists still growing
www.westender.com/...lists-still-growing/
Can You Dig It to Build 50 Plot Inclusive
Community Garden in Vancouver in 1 Day!
www.cityfarmer.info/2011/05/06/...vancouver-in-1-day/
Still Creek Community Garden Blog
http://kaslocommunitygarden.wordpress.com/
A special thanks to the City of Vancouver, Burnaby Association for Community Living, Para Space Landscaping Inc., Mainland Sawmills and Walmart-Evergreen Green Grant for their contributions to the initiative. posAbilities is developing community inclusive gardens in collaboration with Simon Fraser Society for Community Living and MOSAIC.
Together, we can all plant a seed!
Please contact us to learn more about what you can do in your community: canyoudigit@posAbilities.ca
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April 15, 2011
Can You Dig It is excited to present you its newest video!
Thank you to everyone involved in this initiative, and to all new gardeners and volunteers! You are making our dream of inclusion becoming a reality. Together, we can all plant a seed!
Let's keep growing!
The Can You Dig It Team
Can You Dig It Video
April 15, 2011
Build a community garden in one day!
On Saturday May 14th, join your community to transform an empty filed into a luxurious community garden.
Everyone is welcome. Please see the flier below for more information.
May 14th - Building a New Garden on Kaslo Flier
March 8th, 2011
New community gardens sprouting up, but wait lists still growing
Forget designer condos, some of hottest real estate in the City of Vancouver is a plot in your local community garden.
The West Ender has a full length article on Community Gardens and the Can You Dig It project on their website. Click the link below to read the article:
West Ender Article
February 17th, 2011
Do you want your own garden plot?
Are you interested in contributing to your community by planning and building new gardens in your neighborhood? Can You Dig It is proud to offer you this opportunity!
Can You Dig It invites individuals to create a food-growing garden at their house and to coordinate community gardens where the community can participate. Through participation in one of Can You Dig It inclusive gardens, gardeners and volunteers contribute to social inclusion, empowerment, giving back, in addition to have access to fresh organic produce for their families. In our gardens we grow food, and we cultivate relationships!
We are recruiting new gardeners for 13 of our community inclusive gardens, throughout the Lower Mainland.
Join us in the planning and building of the new community garden at 4410 Kaslo in Vancouver, right across the 29th Ave Skytrain station.
Please contact Cinthia at canyoudigit@posAbilities.ca to learn how to get a plot and get involved. Together, we can all plant a seed!
Visit www.posAbilities.ca for more information.
Looking forward to grow with you!
Want a Garden Plot? - Click here for more information
February 17th, 2011
Can You Dig It on a map!
Here are presented 13 of our 16 community-inclusive gardens supported by Can You Dig It and run by enthusiastic gardeners and committed citizens in 2011 (please note that locations are approximate).
Can You Dig It, it’s 16 stories, 16 community networks, and hundreds of people growing and sharing their own fresh organic produce. Contact us to learn how you can do the same!
October 25, 2010
PEPSI Refresh Everything Grant – Can You Dig It in the run!
Start voting on November 1st and you could help us raise $25,000 for Can you dig it!
Contest winners are chosen by popular vote. To win, we need your support.
Pepsi is giving away over a million dollars in grants to fund great ideas. We are competing for a $25,000 grant to build more community gardens for the persons whom we support.
In our gardens we connect and empower people. Gardeners grow nutritious food, can learn employment skills, and offer a portion of their yield to those in need.
HOW TO SUPPORT US
Vote every day the project is posted. Voting opens at 9:00 am on Monday, November 1, 2010 and continues until Friday, December 31st 2010. The first two days of voting are critical. High ranking projects appear at the top of the funding category list, which will attract even more people to vote for us! You can also promote the project on Facebook (look for our page) and on Twitter.
HOW TO VOTE
You can vote by following these simple steps:
- Go to www.refresheverything.ca
- Click on Join Refresh Everything at the bottom of the page
- Register yourself! Use your personal email address and create a password (you only have to register once).
- Use the search tool to find Can You Dig It
- VOTE for us!
- Promote the idea on Facebook (search for our page!) and Twitter.
- Come back everyday, sign in, and support the project!
Voting is quick, easy and fun! Thank you for your support – we can all plant a seed!
October 19, 2010
A series of gardening workshops at NSO Garden Hub
Rosemary has been putting together amazing workshops for her gardeners to learn the joys and secrets of organic backyard gardening. Workshops were open to all, and the information material produced for these workshops have been used in all the other gardens. Seeds saving, winterization, composting, organic diseases and pest control, soil structure and natural amenders were amongst the fascinating topics we have learned about through the season. Many thanks to Rosemary, our garden jester, to continue to enlighten us with her growing wisdom!
Our older news updates can be found in our News Archive section.
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