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March 2012 Blog Posts (5)

Invitation to Join Community Garden Group in South Burnaby!!!

Several of us participate in a "Community Garden" group, collectively doing organic gardening on a 1000 sq ft plot in South Burnaby as part of a 14 acre Community Garden. There is a 200 sq ft greenhouse on our plot - perfect for the 35 tomato and 30 cucumber plants we grow, along with many other things inside AND outside - squash, lettuce, arugula, kale, beets, carrots, peas, beans, peppers, broccoli, swiss chard, bok choy, etc. We also grow enough flowers for everyone to collect bouquets…

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Added by Chris Mann on March 24, 2012 at 6:21pm — No Comments

March 17-18, 2012 Patio Peas Planted

With the beautiful spring weather I was out on the patio digging out two of my wooden garden boxes and replacing with fresher soil.  I use a combination of my on-site compost material, old soil, and added some fresh soil/compost mix from the MOBY sale.  My strategem peas are planted.  We purchased these peas from the seedy Saturday at Stewart Farm a couple years back and grew these out last year.  This time I removed the chives.  According to my companion garden book, peas don't like the…

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Added by Cylia on March 20, 2012 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Online Resource - Plants for a Future

http://www.pfaf.org

Plants For A Future: A resource and information centre for edible and otherwise useful plants

Plants For A Future (PFAF) is a charitable company, originally set up to…

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Added by Beth Carruthers on March 12, 2012 at 11:52am — No Comments

Friday night Yoga class

De-stress after work with this all levels class 

with Sara at Vancouver's new Balance Yoga Studio 



Fridays: 6:00-7:15 pm



Your first class is only $10

No experience needed



What: All-Levels Hatha Yoga class

When – Every Friday: 6:00-7:15 pm

Where - Balance Studio: 4338 Main St (at 28th Ave) Vancouver BC

Cost – First class: $10, 5-classes pass: $75



This class is…

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Added by sara fralin on March 9, 2012 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Free Streaming of the film "Fresh" until March 3

If you haven't seen this film yet, try to catch it online here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/26/fresh-video-documentary.aspx

or invest in a copy from the freshthemovie.com site and host it in your village.

Added by Ann Gillespie on March 2, 2012 at 1:06am — No Comments

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