Grain harvesting at Full Circle Farm, Creston.
Inspecting frames at West Arm Apiaries, Proctor.
Tilling at Johnson’s Landing Retreat Centre.
February 2010
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Membership Renewal
We have come to the time of the year when we all have to renew our membership in the Society.
Our membership year runs from the 1st January until the 31st December, and if you wish to continue with your membership for 2010 - your fees are due now.
Please take the time to fill in the attached membership form and send it into the office.
We hope you have been pleased with the development of the society over the last 12 months - the courses, lectures, newsletter, farm tours and the tool library, and we hope that you will continue to participate with us as we move forward.
Thank you.
The Directors
Annual General Meeting
The AGM of the Society will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 20th March after the lecture / workshop by Dr. Ron Howard starting at 2pm.
For those members attending the lecture, bring a pot luck lunch with you, and join with us for lunch.
We should be finished by 4pm.
Please make an effort to attend - full details of the agenda will be in the February newsletter.
Beekeeping Course
The Beginning Beekeeping course was held at the Harrop hall on Saturday 30th January. The course was presented by Dave Johnson, a director of the society and the owner of West Arm Apiaries, with 45 people in attendance.
The program of beekeeper training is proving extremely popular. With last years and this years, over 100 people have taken the course.
This resulted in 12 new people keeping bees last year, and about 20 new beekeepers making an investment in hives and bees this year.
By the end of the year we expect to have in excess of 50 new hives of bees in our region - not a lot, but a significant move against the national trend.
KMG CSA ‘s available
Click on the images
Growers Links
Details of the courses we offer are now available. Click on the above image.
See also the item on the bottom of this page
The Tool Library is now Live!
Please click on the logo above or on the menu bar on the left to go direct to the Tool Library section of the web site.
Contact the office for a a user name and password for the online booking system.
Shitake's at Underbelly Farm, Kaslo.
Full Circle Farm
Grain Available
Full Circle Farm in Creston still has some grain from the fall harvest.
Currently available:
Red fife wheat - 20 lb. bags for $20.00.
Hard spring wheat (first quality) - 20 lb. bags for $20.00.
Hard spring wheat (second quality) - 40 lb. bags for $30.00.
(some broken kernels but still cleaned well)
Contact
Drew and Joanne Gailius
3510 Lloyd Road,
Canyon, V0G 1C1
Tel: (250) 428 8424
fullcirclefarm@shaw.ca
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Group Purchasing
There are two group purchases being arranged at the moment for members of the society. The first is soil amendments from Gaia Green and the second is beekeeping equipment.
Please see details in the February newsletter for details.
Permaculture & Mushroom Cultivation
Slide Presentation & Discussion
Ernst Huber, Calendula Moon Gardens at Loftsted Farm and Peter McAllister, Underbelly Farm and Manager of Agroforestry Society will be presenting a photo exhibit and discussion at the Langham Theatre in Kaslo on Saturday March 13th, 10am to 5pm.
Ernst has decades of practical permaculture (Sepp Holzer’s methods) farming and gardening expertise in which he produces bountiful crops in adverse conditions. Peter has been photo-documenting the Huber family on Loftsted for the past two years and will be showing Ernst’s garden in all four seasons.
In the afternoon, Peter will be sharing his experience growing culinary and medicinal mushrooms both indoors and outdoors.
Entrance to the day’s event will be by donation. Please bring your own lunch.
The Kootenay Food Security Project will be running a concession on the day.
To account for numbers for the day, please register at the office via email or phone. Thank you.
Non KMG
CSA’s available
Click on the above for Mad Dog Farm’s Vegetable growing in the Kootenays course