St. Margaret of Scotland Community Garden
2024 Fall Newsletter
Hello Gardeners and Welcome to Fall in the Garden!
We hope it has been a good gardening season for you and that you have enjoyed being
in this space. Perhaps you have met a new friend, grown something new to you,
enjoyed the excitement and pleasure of seeing your seeds sprout and your transplants flourish.
It is always with a feeling of regret that we say goodbye to summer but gardening goes
on all year – dreaming and planning for next spring is a great winter activity.
In celebration of the 2024 growing season, we’ll gather on Saturday, October 26 at 11
am to have our Closing Barbeque and Garden Clean-Up. We hope you will come,
clean up your beds, help your neighbours with their clean-up, enjoy the barbeque and
maybe contribute a little something to the communal meal (snacks, cookies, beverages,
whatever) if you feel able.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Your Community Garden Coordinator
For the past nine years (!) with only a brief respite, Georgia Johnson has been the
Garden Coordinator for our Community Garden. You all will have had some contact with
Georgia and know how dedicated and committed to the Garden she is. The Garden
Coordinator position is not an easy one but she has done it so well, but it’s time for
Georgia to pass the torch. We thank her sincerely for her years of service to the
Garden and are delighted that she’s staying on the Community Garden Committee.
Please come out on October 26 to thank Georgia and to welcome our new Coordinator,
Susan Crouse.
St. Mark’s Food Bank
Did you know that from the beginning of the St. Margaret of Scotland Community
Garden (2015) we have had a bed dedicated to providing fresh produce to St. Mark’s
Food Bank here in the North End?
Bed #8 has been gardened and produce delivered every week during the growing
season by the committee members to the Food Bank on Russell Street. We thank the
committee members, especially Marco for all of his efforts and commitment.
So much to be thankful for!
St. Margaret Of Scotland Community Garden Committee
October 2024