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Power To Be Partnership
We are glad to welcome The Power to Be Partnership to our garden!
Together we bring children to the garden to let them enjoy growth and new beginnings. To learn more about The Power to Be Partnership, please visit their site at Powertobe.ca. There you can learn more about adventure therapy, plus, if you have broadband, easily explore the photos and videos available.
Spring planting will start on the 15th of May, and we are welcoming new participants and volunteers to our garden. Please contact us for further schedules.
We have been developing an area in our garden where we have made a maze of pathways through a large blackberry patch. The pathways are to be wheel chair accessable so far we have about a thousand feet of pathways which makes for a much acccessable picking area. We are hoping for funding in the near future to make it more accessable to persons with limited mobility.
This year we had an opportunity to have a dozen beehives in our garden. We noticed that we had a larger that usual amount of berries in our blackberry patch, and the garden thrived because of the benificial pollenating activities of the bees. We also were able to share this experience with the children that were involved in our programs. The honey that the bees produced was quite substansial and was enjoyed by all.
Looking at the new year we are sure that this part of our ecosystem that we created will be a permanent asset in our garden oasis.
There are very worthwhile additions to our garden, one of them being 40 foot long structures with laying spaces called chicken tractors. These are a cage-like structure that has no floor and is moved through the garden area. The chickens that are in this structure tear up the ground and fertilize it at the same time and the chickens also produce organic eggs the type of hens that we have are called Isiys.
We sell our eggs to an organic food distributor called SPUD. A lot of our eggs and vegatables are donated to volunteers that help at the garden as well to the groups of children that partricipate in our garden therapy programs.