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RADIO INTERVIEW with TONY THRELFALL & GEORGE LAUNDRY

DennisL — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:59:11 +0000

Tune in to Grow Your Own this Weds, Sept. 8 from 3 to 4pm and hear from two of the island’s most authoritative farmers talk about the upcoming Fall Fair (which takes place two weekends from now on September 18 and 19).

Listeners can phone in questions while the show is on the air to 250.931.7999. Grow Your Own airs weekly on Wednesdays 3-4pm and is re-aired on Friday mornings 6-7am.

Tony and George are very entertaining conversationalists so don’t miss this interview.

Upcoming guests:

Sept 15: Andrea Le Borgne — tips and advice on how to win in various categories at the Fall Fair

Sept 22: Marsha Goldberg of the Salt Spring Seed Sanctuary

Apples and tree fruit Wanted!

spectralworldbridger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:39:57 +0000

We are a little family of four who would love to pick your fruit trees for apples, plums or pears. If you have fruit that you don’t have time to pick or that you don’t want to see wasted, please contact us. The little ones love sauce and dried fruit for the winter!

Thank you ~

Direct Seeded Winter vegetable seeds

Marsha Goldberg — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:17:30 +0000

Lots of vegetables available to direct seed your fall and winter garden. Short season cold tolerant fall crops and over wintering annual and perennial varieties.Open Tuesdays from 10-4 or call ahead

Apples wanted for applesauce

karen — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:17:30 +0000

We have a collective of mothers who get together to make applesauce for our children. If you have apples that you don’t want to see go to waste please contact us and we will come and pick.

Thank you!

Iris Clumps Needing Homes

westonlake — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:58:39 +0000

Clumps of siberian iris, including ‘Chilled Wine’. Also iris robusta ‘Gerald Darby’, a beautiful 3′tall variety with deep purple spring leaf growth and stem.

Rabbits for Sale

lucchime@hotmail.com — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:19:09 +0000

Ready to go rabbits
For meat or other
P/B New Zealand and New Zealand X Californian
Also taking orders for the fall.

Basil – $!0/tote

J. Squier — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:20:27 +0000

Sweet Basil, each tote filled with basil leaves and stems, great deal! Harvesting Monday.

White Leghorn bantam chicken trio

bobtwaites@shaw.ca — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:20:25 +0000

Beautiful white Leghorn Bantam chickens, raised from prizewinning 4H stock (siblings were Best Bird and Best Male at the PNE). Reliable layers of white eggs. A steal at $25 for 2 pullets (young females) and 1 cockerel (young male)

Upcoming Organic Gardening Courses

Heide — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:28:34 +0000

It’s that time of the year again, registrations are in full swing, and classes are already filling up.

Here is our Fall 2010 offering.

For more information, full schedules, and to register please visit

http://www.gaiacollege.ca

Search by course or location.

ORGANIC MASTER GARDENER COURSE
Our most popular and most life-changing course
Burnaby (Info Session September 8 / Starts September 28)
Parksville (Info Session September 30 / Starts October 12)
Port Alberni (Info Session October 2 / Starts October 13)
Shawnigan Lake (Starts September 7)
Surrey (Info Session September 7 / Starts September 28)
Tsawwassen (Info Session October 4 / Starts October 25)
Victoria (Info Session September 14 / Starts October 28)
Whistler (Info Session September 22 / Starts October 5)

ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN – SEMESTER 1
Semester 1 is a prerequisite for Semester 2
Burnaby (Info Session September 14 / Starts September 27)
Victoria (Info Session September 14 / Starts September 29)

3-DAY INTENSIVE ORGANIC SOIL MANAGEMENT
One offering only this fall!
Victoria (November 26-28)

ORGANIC Italian Plums

Neil Mark — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:31:50 +0000

Please call to arrange a time come by our Earth Candy Farm. 250-538-8636 or email.