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Agricultural Association, Powell River & District

President: Val Wigton  604 485 4471

Promotes farmers' markets, fairs, 4-H and local sustainable farming; administers the Paradise Exhibition Park.

Community Garden

Seventh Day Adventist Church, 4880 Manson

Donna  604 487 0647

A community garden with plots available for people who would like to garden.
For more information call Donna.

Hours: Sunday 1:30; Friday 1:30  Christmas dinner held 2 to 3:30 Christmas Day

Farmers Institute

President: Helena Bird   604 483 9546    Email

Seedy Saturday: Wendy Devlin   604 483 9268

We promote agriculture; including small and large animal husbandry, family and commercial gardening, and producer and consumer issues in the Powell River area. Meetings held quarterly with guest speakers.

Garden Club

Sandra Mayenburg, Public Relations  604 483 3897    Email

Guest speakers and information for gardeners.  We welcome anyone who is interested in gardening.

Meetings: 4th Tuesday September thru June, Trinity Hall, United Church
(Corner of Michigan and Duncan); doors open @7:00 pm

Garden Club, Texada Island

Cheryl Nyl  486 7327

All gardeners are welcome to join the Texada Garden Club. For our last meeting in June we have an outdoor potluck. Our meetings are informative and fun

Meetings: 3rd Tuesday of each month 7 pm, Seniors Centre in the Old School in Gillies Bay (September to June)

Garden Tour Committee

c/o 4316 Westview Avenue, Powell River  V8A 3J6

Diana Wood  604 485 2860

Organizes an annual spring tour of selected gardens and homes from Lund to Saltery Bay on the Sunday of the Victoria Day weekend. Proceeds dedicated to community projects such as green space, beautifying, etc.

Skookum Food Provisioners' Cooperative  Blog  Faceboook

David  604 485 7940  Email

A not-for-profit Community Service Cooperative established in 2010 with a mandate to help its members acquire and share the knowledge, skills, and resources they need in order to

• grow, gather, raise, and catch healthful food as locally as possible;
• preserve, store, prepare, and share the bounty;
• build a strong community and a diverse local food economy based on mutual support, fair prices, living wages, and respect for the natural systems which sustain life.

One of our projects is Skookum Gleaners (formerly 'The Fruit Tree Project'). For more information see skookumfood.ca/gleaners

Society for Advancement of Local Sustainable Agriculture (SALSA)

6603 McMahon Avenue, Powell River, BC  V8A 4W2

Helena Bird, President  604 483 9546  Email

SALSA is a non-profit society making local farming economically, socially and environmentally feasible.  It is working to establish the Full Circle Farm.

Agricultural & Gardening Groups

Community groups in Powell River and Texada Island interested in gardening and agriculture preservation.

Backyard Composting

Step by step photo instruction

by City Farmers, Vancouver

And for more on the same subject there is a comic style photo gallery named

It’s a Buggy Garden

Beach Rock Walled Garden

Over 3,000 rocks were used to build this maze-like garden in Black Point. Carefully selected rocks were brought from the beach, washed and then mortared into place. There are 7 gardens forming a circle around the fountain.

Storing Carrots

An interesting article on Powell River Blogspot...

“Last week at the cabin my goal was to dig up the last of my annual crops...and prepare the soil for the coming season.”

“...OK, it was hard not to engage in a bit of vegetable humour by making Veggie Man with a fanged carrot and a leftover beet.”

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