This season the ECGS is proud to share 'Gardeners' Tales' written by members of the Anderson Park Community Garden.  This week's feature gardeners are Patrick, Sandy and their two children:

"We became members of the Anderson Park Community Garden in May of 2012.  This season we planted a variety of vegetables and were able to harvest lots of produce that made our salads healthy and delicious. Our kids, age 2 and 4, enjoyed watering the plants, eating the strawberries and raspberries, helping with weeding and playing in the nearby playground. It’s a project we all work on together and we were able to teach them the importance of locally grown food while eating yummy fruits and vegetables."

Thank you GOERT!

We would like to thank the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT) for donating the newest version of The Garry Oak Gardener's Handbook to our garden's library! In that book you will find tips on attracting pollinators, removing invasive plants, propagation guidelines for 75 native plants, and a useful list of updated nurseries that sell native plants. Please pick up a copy and, if you enjoy the read, consider making a contribution to the GOERT to cover publication and printings costs at www.goert.ca/donate

Gardeners's Tales

This season the ECGS is proud to share 'Gardeners' Tales' written by members of the Anderson Park Community Garden.  This week's feature gardener is Jennifer Medd:

This year ECGS members donated 28 kilos of tomatoes to Victoria's Rainbow Kitchen (http://www.rainbowkitchen.ca)

"Anyone else renting in Esquimalt? With no place to garden where you live? That's been my situation for a while now so I am really pleased to have a plot at the Anderson Park Community Garden. It's a good place to garden because the raised beds have really good soil, there is water and there is a deer fence. The veggies are great to have - I even think that I'm saving on my food bills although the fresh full taste of home-grown veggies probably can't be valued in dollars.  And at first that was it - I went there a couple of times a week and had good food as a result. But gradually I am meeting some of my fellow gardeners, learning from them some better ways to grow food, and enjoying the work bees when we can work together. I'm looking forward to being part of this small community within Esquimalt."