#KEGG.CA

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Ooooh… so that’s why the 4th letter in “KEGG” stands for “Greenhouse”!!! 🙃 (ie. up until the side panels finished going on at today’s workbee (Saturday, September 2nd), Kimberley Edible Gardens & Greenhouse had kinda been greenhouse-less since setting up the community garden up in townsite 2-ish years ago — thankfully nobody noticed that we had actually been 'KEG' the last couple years because now our other ‘G’ is up & looking g-g-g-great!)

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[09-02-2023]

MOUNTOWN LIFE

“This year’s crop of snow is coming along nicely up at the KEGG.CA community garden (which is a Kimberley, BC garden group that is also on Tumblr if you fancy following along to their 2nd year of community gardening — and if you live local & fancy the idea of growing food where you live, go give their JOIN page a gander, eh) 👍”

📷 + 🤔 by Jeremy // @HI54LOFI, captured somewhere some-when around Kimberley, BC  — which is a mountain town found in the geographical location that is sometimes seen with an asterisk-doing-A-LOT-of-work noting that the area is also “the unceded traditional territory of the Ktunaxa (?amak?is) Nation” (I guess sometimes the ‘BC’ stands for “because colonialism”).

**PS - If you’d like to submit your own #MOUNTOWNLIFE moment — aka a picture you’ve taken around the HWY 95EH area (or from a mountown near or far away) with some accompanying thoughts and/or words that make for either a short caption or a few paragraphs of online writing to go along with your picture — please check out the EH? section for more info on this 95EH thing (I’m forever trying to update as I go) or you can also just reach out via the ancient power of email (hey@95eh.ca) or just interact with HWY 95EH on Tumblr if you’re also on here (or you can try 95EH’s Instagram & Facebook, although we’re currently on a break) 👍

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We’ve reached that lovely time of the year when it’s starting to look more & more like a garden again 🌱

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SURPRISE! We have artists among our gardeners — and our KEGG mural (with the amazing artwork conceived and painted by the amazing Elaine Rudser) is now hanging up at the community garden and we couldn't LOVE it more! Even the hover flies & bees were fooled by it's beauty and have been checking out the new flowers on the wall 🌻

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The first work bee of the 2024 season was a success last Saturday — new faces + old faces + a whole bunch of collaborative prep work done as we get the garden ready for another year of productive local food production!

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Another year of composting up at the KEGG.CA community garden is “mostly” finished… and what a fruitful year of decomposing fruit & veg & other organic materials it was!

The reason I say “mostly” is because:

a) Compost never stops (the science just realllllllly slows down), so our Curing bin (pic 2) and our Finished Compost bin (pic 3) will still be doing its thang over what’s left of Autumn and into next Spring/melt, when 🎶Jeremy the Compost Man🎶 will be able to stick a pitchfork in things once again

b) Like last year, our Active Compost bin will still be accessible (pic 1), we just ask that you please cover your compost with an equal amount of browns (aka: leaves), of which we have a bunch already collected (pics 4+5+6) and will try to keep accessible next to the active compost bin.

So shoutout to everyone who helped contribute to all the black gold we were able to produce this year at KEGG… and we look forward to putting it all back into the earth to help grow even more local food next year!

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Amongst a whole bunch of produce harvested at this Saturday's work bee up at the KEGG.CA community garden in Townsite (so much lettuce, sooooo many beans), with 1/3 picked being delivered to Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot to be redistributed in the community (over 40kg this week!), we also got some sky blue paint up (thanks Cloverdale Paint in Cranbrook for the donation of paint!) that will serve as the backdrop for a lovely mural that one of our talented gardeners will be creating (talk about 'the art of gardening' eh?) — we can't wait to see the final result!

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Another busy & bountiful day up at the KEGG.CA community garden this Saturday (with 1/3 of the produce harvested getting dropped of at the Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot)!

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Spring is sprung-ing up at the KEGG.CA community garden 🌱  (that’s the garlic getting going) 

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Hey garden gang… KEGG's PLANT SALE is back!

We have hanging flower baskets, Hens & Chicks, as well as some vegetable starts. S come on down (or up) and visit the KEGG garden up in Townsite @ McDougal Park and see what we have to offer at really good prices!

This Saturday (May 20th, 2023).

9am to 12pm (ish).

500 Rossland Blvd (Kimberley, BC).

[CLICK HERE to visit the Facebook Event page]

And we hope to see you there!  🌻

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As you can see from our newly implemented chalkboard… we accomplished quite a lot on our latest Saturday Work Bee (May 6th, 2023). We’re also having a flower basket sale from 9am - 12pm during our next Saturday Work Bee on May 13th. Hens and chicks too potted up or in bulk,10 cents a pound soil removed. CLICK HERE for more info on the Facebook event!

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Life imitates art 🌻

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New compost security guard 🦉

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You know that familiar wedding party photo where everybody jumps in the air at the same time? Ok… but now imagine you replaced the ‘wedding party people’ with eccentric carrots from the kegg.ca community garden.

Can you see it now too?

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THIS Sunday (July 9th), the KEGG Community Garden will be one of the 6 gardens being toured on the 6th Annual 'The Art of Gardening Tour' (which includes refreshments afterwards at Centre 64)!

This lovely event is not just a wonderful display of community gardens and gardeners (although it is definitely that), BUT, as the name implies, there is also subjective & interpretive (and alive) "art" on display in each garden, which varies by each artist/gardener (with the one always-involved collaborator being Mother Nature).

For example, up in Townsite, our KEGG community garden metaphorically paints with a focus on 'food production' over 'pretty flowers' (as our mandate is to donate 1/3 of our produce to Healthy Kimberley Food Depot, to be used in their community meal preps and/or given out to the community as picked), which means some of our prettiest colours are often hidden underground in our beets, carrots and radishes until pulled from the brown earth (although, if you're a fan of the colour green, our visible canvas is always filled with that hue).

But that's also a main part of the art of gardening — it's not just something that you can see, it's something you can smell and touch and taste and talk about with your friends & family & community… and like all good art, it's something that can inspire you to go try out for yourself or to go collaborate with others (or a bit of both).

In other words: we look forward to being apart of this celebration of local gardens & gardeners… and we're honoured to be a piece of this year's 'The Art of Gardening' community garden masterpiece!

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How It Started vs How It's Going (KEGG herb garden edition - April vs June pics)