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Fall General Meeting

Maple Community Garden – Fall General Meeting

Date: Sunday, September 28, 2014

Time: 10:00am

Location: 2229 Maple Street (southwest corner of Maple St and W 6th Ave)

Agenda and previous general meeting minutes will be provided at the meeting.

Garden Work Party – Monday, July 28 from 7:00-9:00

Just a notice that we will have the work party as usual.  We will need to move some plants we want to keep in preparation for CPR plans. It will be a good opportunity to plan for the future.
Please remember to bring grass clippers, and trowels for clipping, weeding and general clean up.  We need to demonstrate that we are proud and committed to keeping the gardens beautiful for the community at large.

Garden Party Along the Arbutus Corridor Community Gardens

Saturday, July 26th from 11:00 to 5:00

A BBQ will be provided for anyone to use. Please feel free to bring a potluck to share. Open to the public, Free, all ages, pets welcome.

Plant seed giveaways, music, veggies, mini-market. Harvest and Garden Tour – 1pm & 3pm Seed saving workshop – 2pm

Meet between Maple st. and Fir st.  along 6th avenue railway tracks

This event is brought to you by all passionate gardeners in this neighbourhood! For further information contact: Gabriel – naturespiritgarden@gmail.com

http://cypresscommunitygarden.ca/arbutus-corridor-garden-party/

Volunteers needed (Folk Fest & Filming) and Help from Mother Nature

Volunteers are needed to help with the petition booth at the Folk Festival this weekend (July 19 and 20). Contact Karen Coulter if interested and for more details.

Dan will be filming at the Cypress Community Garden work party this evening at 6:30. All are welcome.

Looks like Mother Nature is trying to help our cause.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Fire+infestation+complicates+Arbutus+Corridor+community+garden+removal/10008881/story.html

 

 

CPR Update for July 17

Here are the most recent updates on the CPR-Arbutus Corridor. This does raise more questions than provide answers but we will continue moving forward with petitions, getting our message out through the media and asking local politicians and the city to take action. Gardens along the Corridor currently working together on this issue include Arbutus Victory Garden, Kerrisdale Community Garden, World in a Garden, Pine Street Garden and Maple Community Garden.

  • CPR notices to remove encroachments along the right-of-way were posted along Maple, Cypress and Pine Gardens on July 16. Maureen has been in communication with CP to ask for an extension to the July 31st deadline. CP indicated that the gardens were aware of their decision through media and posted maps and no exemptions would be granted.
  • Property markers will be set out the week of July 21.  CPR has indicated that access to any part of the right of way to the entrance gates to each section with the plots will be closed off immediately after July 31st.
  • Local government representative have been contacted. George Heyman, MLA, will be visiting the gardens on July 17. David Eby, MLA for Point Grey, has posted our petition on the office door and has offered non-partisan meeting space if needed.  He has written CPR and made his letter available to the gardens. Joyce Murray wrote an article in the Courier.

Cypress community garden has advised their membership to save any valued or special plants on the right-of-way. The executive will be providing recommendations for Maple shortly.

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