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Giggling Chi Tree is very excited to announce we are bringing the amazing Michael Becker to Calgary the week of June 21st thru June 29th, 2013!!!

A PCG Member who is looking for eco-conscious work in Calgary area.

Join us Saturday April 21 1-4pm at Southwood Community Hall (upstairs)- 11 Sackville Dr SW
This workshop will show you how to grow food successfully in Calgary. Topics will include an overview of site soil preparation, compost, crop rotation, cover crops, water issues, seed selection and saving, as well as growing vegetables that thrive in our bioregion.
Tickets are $20 through eventbrite or at the door please RSVP to southwoodcommunitygardens@gmail.com

Hi Everyone - I'm leading a straw bale building course during Hort week. There are lots of other great courses as well.
http://www.oldscollege.ca/programs/ContinuingEducation/hortweek/index.htm

Straw Bale Building Basics July 19, 2012

Instructor: Laura Tanner

We're going to be here this Saturday. We're going to do a couple of existing activities at our booth:

• We going to show you how to build a Global Bucket, a very inexpensive way to make a portable garden bed that is almost drought-proof.
• We're going to demystify lawns and highlight the true opportunities those spaces offer.
• Some photos and stories of the Permablitz season last year!
• And next to us will be Calgary Harvest

See you there!

Here's a refreshing film, presented by the Unitarian Church of Calgary. It will be shown on January 13 2012 at 6:30 at the Unitarian Church which is centrally located at 1703 1st Street NW. Hope to see you there! See below for all the details and the plot.

The launch of our new site is underway, but we have run into some funky errors, resulting in the strange and boring page formatting you're seeing now. Computers are like ecosystems, they're infinitely deep, and the more you dig into them, the more complex they get! Our new site should be up in the next day or two, and then we'll be ironing out the bugs over the next couple of weeks and adding features.

Thanks!

Dear Friends and Community Group Members,

We we have been working hard to get a pot luck organized for November 25th from 6:00pm - 9:30 pm at the Mission Community Hall (2201 Cliff Street SW). We want to get a feel for where you (the membership) wants to see this group go! For example what sort of events do you want the executive to organize, what sort of benefits would you like to see, how often would you like to meet ect. The evening is going to go like this;

We need help running the Harvest Festival ion October 5 which is put on the Sunnyside Hillhurst Community Association and the Calgary Horticultural Society. 

Essentially, the Festival runs from 3:30 till 8pm during then after the farmers market. Essentially, we are looking for help with the following tasks: