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Seedy Saturday postponed until March 14, 2020

Contact us at

smbgardeningclub@gmail.com

Welcome!

Interested in gardening? Join the club! Membership is $20 a year for single membership, or $25 per family.
(8 sessions - September - November and January - May) We also offer Members Only events and workshops occasionally. Members receive monthly emails (or slightly more frequently, depending on events).
To join, simply send an e-transfer to smbgardeningclub@gmail.com for the appropriate amount (mentioned above) then send an email with your name and contact info (including phone number) to smbgardeningclub@gmail.com When you come to your first meeting, check in and say hi! Our meetings start promptly at 7 pm and usually end about 8:30 pm. We are centrally located in the welcoming St. Luke's United Church, 5374 St. Margaret's Bay Rd. in Upper Tantallon. The church is fully accessible and has lots of parking.

You can join by etransfer anytime!

Noveber meeting! November 15, 2023

Join us at St. Luke's United Church, Upper Tantallon for
the third meeting of our 2023-2024 season.
The meeting starts at 7 pm. If you are paying your membership that evening, please come a bit early. (See above how to pay by e-transfer)

Visitors are very welcome at our meetings, and we charge $5.00 per person for visitors. Exact change is appreciated!

This will be our Holiday Social, a presentation by Denise Stockdale of Barefoot Blooms, and our very quick AGM.

An avid gardener her whole life, Denise Stockdale turned her love of growing and passion for the natural world into a business dedicated to sustainability - from growing flowers to designing with them. Denise started Barefoot Blooms when she moved to Nova Scotia 16 years ago. Initially, she grew flowers in order to have material to use for wedding florals, and soon, designing branched into other holidays and celebrations. Then, of course, more flowers were needed as more and more special events were booked, so extra blooms each week were prepared for farm markets, and eventually sufficient blooms were being grown to also support a small wholesale production.

She'll share with us some of what she has done to integrate values of sustainability into her practices, as well as discuss the challenges that these practices encounter.

Despite most garden-fresh flowers being long gone by our November meeting, Denise is keen to do a 'harvest' before her presentation as an example of how to embrace what is available in all seasons, including the use of dried florals from this year. Also, she will whip together a fully compostable holiday wreath - no wire, no metal frame, no adhesives.

Denise will bring along some dried floral arrangements and mini wreaths (cash, etransfer, debit and credit accepted)

We will have finger food prepared by various members, and the selection is always beautiful! There will be punch, and some little centrepieces to win as doorprizes at the end, as well as other doorprizes.

At the beginning of the session, we will be treated to the slideshow featuring another lovely garden - part one of a two part series on a member's garden. The second part of this particular series will be in January.

Bring a cash donation for the SMB Food Bank if you wish! We will have envelopes for your donation, and we deliver the donations the morning after the meeting.

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Watch this space for information on our

upcoming Holiday Decorating Workshop. If you are a member, you've received a "first dibs" email and a reminder email about the workshop. After November 15th, we will post here.

We will be sharing new Seedy Saturday 2024 info and after that, our next big

Plant Sale in the Spring!

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