BAA supports the BICS Edible Garden and its Grow to the Market Program, which allows students to grow their own produce at school, then sell it at the BowFEAST monthly community farmers’ markets. Here’s an Edible Garden update from Sarah Haxby, Bowen Island Community School Coordinator.
The Bowen Island Community School (BICS) Edible Garden is a [...]
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Bowen Island Community School: garden update
Apr
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The best spring fertilizer mix ever!
BAA’s Cathy Buchanan — veggie gardener extraordinaire — recently demonstrated at the BAA soil amendment workshop how to mix up this dry fertilizer mix. Basically, you mix into the soil in early spring, then wait two weeks til your first seed planting (see instructions, below). This is a dressing that you add to your veg [...]
Apr
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Harvest box update for 2012 season
Hi,
As many of you know, BAA managed a successful “BowFEAST in a Box” pilot harvest box project in 2011 with two Bowen producers and 10 customers who signed up to receive a box of fresh Bowen produce weekly from June to October.
We wanted to update everyone about the status for this upcoming growing season on [...]
Apr
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Bowen Ag Alliance AGM set for April 28
The Bowen Agricultural Alliance Society (BAA) is hosting its Annual General Meeting on Sat., April 28, from 1 to 3 pm at Collins Hall, and all are invited to attend. BAA will discuss its many 2012 initiatives, invite others to bring their ag and food-related project ideas, and screen a variety of interesting short videos.
BAA [...]
Mar
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BAA member cards ready at AGM!
If you are a BAA member, or recently joined us, we have the new 2012 BAA membership cards ready for you!
You can pick up your BAA membership card at our upcoming Annual General Meeting on Sat., April 28 (more on that later).
If you aren’t able to attend the AGM—though we hope you are—then we will [...]
Mar
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BowFEAST 2012 monthly farmers’ markets kick off in June
We spied some daffodils peeking up out of the soil the other day—must be that spring is on the way! That means it’s high time to start thinking about fruit and veggie growing, or at least fruit and veggie eating. Which brings us to BowFEAST…
The Bowen Agricultural Alliance Society (BAA) is once again hosting [...]
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BAA March AGM re-scheduled
Folks,
We’ve had to reschedule our March 10, 2012 BAA Annual General Meeting. We will send out the new date as soon as it’s available, so please stay tuned.
Hope to see you all soon at the upcoming AGM!