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August 2011 Blog Posts (9)

Volunteer Chefs wanted for Community Kitchens at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House

Hello:



The Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House is looking for volunteer chefs to help us run a variety of community kitchens/food workshops (see description below and attached).



I understand you run such workshops and am wondering if someone from VV might be available to volunteer with us once a month, or help us connect with chefs who might be able to do this.



Thank you,

Melanie



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Added by Ross Moster on August 31, 2011 at 1:22pm — No Comments

August 14 Tomato Harvest

Thought I would post a pic of the harvested tomatoes.

Robust red tomato - Victoria (4 oz)

Purpley red - Black Prince (2.25 oz)

Golden yellow - Taxi (2 oz x 2)

Golden yellow pear shaped - Yellow Pear (didn't register on…

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Added by Cylia on August 15, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Canada Climate Criminal

Canada's PR Work for Tar Sands: Dirty, Crude and Oily

by Martin Lukacs





Another climate-related record will soon be broken, but it's not like those you've been hearing about: the heat waves, droughts and torrential floods setting calamitous precedents everywhere. For a change, mark down this next one as a sign of hope. It's that Washington will play host to the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in US history.



From 20 August to 3 September, a… Continue

Added by David Allan on August 15, 2011 at 1:03pm — 1 Comment

August 10 - Tomato Trials

This year I decided to grow several varieties to check out how they would do on my patio and to determine if I wanted to grow them again. There are hundreds of kinds of tomatoes and I am growing 11 heritage varieties (12 in total), planted either in Ikea self-watering black plastic garden pots and/or my garden boxes (on wheels). With the self-watering pots I only need to water every other day, at least during the hot summer. This is what I have found out so far.…

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Added by Cylia on August 11, 2011 at 11:16pm — No Comments

Cedar Cottage Seed Saving Collective Library Books Available

With some of our Neighborhood Small Grants funding (thank you Vancouver Foundation), our seed saving collective has purchased three books:

(1) "Breed your own Vegetable Varieties" by Carol Depp

(2) "Seed to Seed" by Susan Ashworth, both of which are available to borrow.…

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Added by Cylia on August 8, 2011 at 12:47am — No Comments

August 7 Patio Peas and Tomatoes

At around 8 a.m., after I had quickly consumed my breakfast fruit smoothie, I harvested pea seed from my dried vines. We didn't eat many peas this spring even though four varieties were planted in our patio garden boxes. One "Oregon Sugar" and "Green Arrow" came up, even though the same number of seed were planted in each row. Perhaps we planted too late since peas won't germinate if it's too warm.

The heritage…

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Added by Cylia on August 8, 2011 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Wild Yards facebook page live! Share Wild Yard photos, stories, tips, questions.

Wild Yards facebook page live! Share Wild Yard photos, stories, tips, questions.

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-Yards-Lawn-Alternative/125304904227657

Added by Justice Schanfarber on August 4, 2011 at 10:39am — No Comments

dealing with illegally parked cars in bicycle lanes with a tank (video)

FYI, here's what they do in Vilnius, Lithuania (to deal with illegally parked cars with a tank):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU&feature=player_embedded



While I'm not personally suggesting that City Hall follows Vinius' lead, there are plenty of issues with illegally parked cars in Vancouver.

Furthermore, the number of cyclists who 'get…
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Added by Stephen Bohus on August 2, 2011 at 10:49am — No Comments

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