Leah Austin
Let's get growing!
Finally … it’s time to plan! As the weather warms, it’s time to get your seed packets out and start sowing. There are a few guidelines...
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Paula Robertson
- Mar 2
- 4 min
February in the School Garden
We have been exploring seeds, winter sowing, germination techniques and cooking this past month with our in-class, after-school and...
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Adrienne Mason
- Jan 29
- 2 min
2023: Another growing season ahead
Happy new year! It’s late January and the start of the 2023 growing season. Although it is cold, rainy, and dull out there, there are...
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Paula Robertson
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
Building a Lasagna Garden
More gorgeous weather this November in our gardens. We soak up the sun and keep busy with winter preparations. One of our yearly...
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Leah Ungstad
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
Beautiful Winter
Tofino Community Food Initiative has a workshop coming up in December! Since the weather outside can some days be frightful, we’re taking...
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Paula Robertson
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Autumn in the School Garden
Our students have returned and the Garden Clubs have begun! We were all excited to see the many surprises that grew in our absence. A...
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Leah Ungstad
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Protect your plants, the rains are here!
TCFI’s Harvest Celebration at the school garden this past month was a wonderful community event with lots of folks coming together to...
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Leah Ungstad
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
Harvest Time
Fall has arrived in our gardens! Days are getting shorter, a wind is rustling in the changing leaves of the trees, geese are flying back...
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Leah Ungstad
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
Himalayan Blackberry
One of our easiest local foods to forage in late summer on the west coast is himalayan blackberry. Rubus armeniacus is listed with the...
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Leah Ungstad
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Take a Chance on a Seed!
Welcome to August! Responding to the heat, midsummer flowers are blooming everywhere, snapdragons and nasturtiums, petunias, and late...
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Leah Ungstad
- Jun 30, 2022
- 3 min
Edible Garden Tours 2022
As seen in the July 2022 issue of Tofino Time. Tofino Community Food Initiative is a nonprofit society started by local gardeners in...
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Paula Robertson
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min
May in the School Garden
With the return of warmer weather - we are being positive, our students have been eager to get out and share in gardening experiences....
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Leah Ungstad
- Jun 2, 2022
- 3 min
Grow Local Chronicles - June 2022
Hey West Coast Gardeners! My favourite month of the year, the brightest month, is here; June! I read a great book this past month called...
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Leah Ungstad
- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
Grow Local Chronicles - May 2022
Well, that was a cold April! I remember last April paddling across Kennedy Lake in a bikini, picnicking and swimming with my family. Not...
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Paula Robertson
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
March in the School Garden
Gardening can be a bit dirty but well worth it. During the month of March the students were busy bees learning - yes, soil is alive! Our...
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Leah Ungstad
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
Grow Local Chronicles - April 2022
Let’s hear it for volunteers! After moving a homemade compost mound onto my food growing beds in the greenhouse, a fascinating diversity...
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Paula Robertson
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
February in the School Garden
February was a time of great sunshine and very little rain in our gardens. We are so grateful to have received two water catchments from...
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Leah Austin
- Feb 25, 2022
- 3 min
Grow Local Chronicles - March 2022
Here we go. Ready or not, the growing season is upon us! By now we have seen all the early Spring flowers popping up around our towns and...
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Paula Robertson
- Jan 29, 2022
- 1 min
January in the School Garden
We have been so excited to return to our gardens after Christmas; curious to see what our kale, arugula, mustard greens, romaine,...
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Leah Austin
- Jan 29, 2022
- 3 min
Grow Local Chronicles - February 2022
Happy new year and blessings for the best growing season ever! Now that the winter solstice is behind us, we will start to see some of...
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