Tickets can be bought for $10 at the club meetings or through e-transfer to kingstonhortsoc@gmail.com
55th Annual Plant Sale, Saturday, May 25th at 10am
Members, please arrive between 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM for drop-off and follow procedures for labeling and organizing your plants.
This sale is open to the public, so please feel free to share the flyer with your friends and neighbours!
GK In-person Meeting Thursday, April 11 at 7pm
Pots that Wow by Laura Moses, Fine Lines Landscape and Design
GK In-Person Meeting March 14 at 7:00pm
We look forward to welcoming you back to our in-person meetings at our former location: the Ongwanada Resource Centre, at 191 Portsmouth Ave, Kingston.
Did you know our birthday was February 22? The March meeting is our first opportunity to get together and celebrate, and there will be cake and bubbles to toast our 125th anniversary!
Our speakers for the evening will be Daren and Vania Frame, owners of the Sticky Forks Apiary in Elginburg. They’ll share their wealth of knowledge and experience with Honey Bees and Honey Production.
Period costumes are optional but encouraged. Bring a friend or family member, the more the merrier! Download the invitation by clicking on the image below.
Admission is free to members of Gardening Kingston. The Guest fee is $3.00.
LOCATION
Our in-person Member’s Meetings will be held at:
Ongwanada Resource Centre
191 Portsmouth Avenue
Kingston, Ontario K7M 8A6
Click on the map image below to link to the Google Map and a more detailed view of the surroundings.
GK February 8 online meeting (Zoom)
Our February speaker will be Robert Pavlis, a Guelph-Wellington Master Gardener, educator, book author, and owner of Aspen Grove Gardens.
Japanese Gardens of North America and Europe
This talk will discuss basic design concepts of Japanese gardens and will use pictures from various Japanese and Chinese gardens in North America and Europe that have been visited by the presenter.
Join us on Zoom for our February 8th meeting at 7:00 PM.
Zoom link will be distributed with the newsletter.
GK January 11 online meeting (Zoom)
Our January speaker will be Nancy Abra, a London Middlesex Master Gardener.
Plants ~ the Legacy; our Living Heritage
This presentation will cover how the legacy of plants extends back thousands of years. Nancy will also discuss how and why our heritage plants and gardens in Canada should be preserved to tell the story of our forefathers.
Join us on Zoom for our January 11th meeting at 7:00 PM.
Zoom link will be distributed to members via email.
GK December 14 online meeting (Zoom)
Our December speaker will be Sheila Nemcsok, of Portsmouth Urban Foraging. Sheila will introduce us to the living pantry all around us and provide useful information for harvesting, storing and cooking our bounty. Local wild foods change throughout the seasons and provide not only free food but nutritious and delicious food.
Join us on Zoom for our December 14th Meeting at 7:00 PM. Have your notebook ready and be prepared to go for a walk the next morning for your first harvest. Foraging is not just a spring activity!
Zoom link will be distributed with the newsletter.
GK in-person AGM and Presentation, Thursday, November 9 at 7pm
Stephen Gard is the new Executive Director at Loving Spoonful. His credentials include 25 years’ experience working in non-profit organizations with recognition as a Certified Association Executive in non-profit leadership. Gardening Kingston has long been a supporter of Loving Spoonful, especially in the Community Garden Network. We have invited Stephen to give us an overview of the full Loving Spoonful umbrella. Have a peek at their website – www.lovingspoonful.org…you will be amazed!
LOCATION
Our in-person Member’s Meetings will be held at:
205 Resource Road
Kingston, ON K7P 0K1
The location is fully accessible with ample free parking, and our meeting room is located on the ground floor.
Our Gardening Kingston banner will be located in the hallway outside of the meeting room, but hotel staff at reception will also be able to direct you.
Click on the map image below to link to the Google Map and a more detailed view of the surroundings.
Gardening Kingston In-person Meeting: Thursday, October 12 at 7:00pm
Plant swap
Bring a plant, and get a different one in return. Bring two…get two. Any plant not chosen in a swap will then be available to other attendees. See complete instructions here.
Presentation by Cathy Christie, KASSI
“Be a Local Hero: Learn How to Grow, Save and Share Local Seeds”
“Our seeds are disappearing.
When seed varieties vanish from the marketplace, they evaporate not only from collective memory but also from the evolutionary story of the earth. Seeds are more like Bengal tigers than vinyl records, which can simply be remanufactured. Once gone, seeds cannot be resurrected.
Goodbye, cool seeds. Goodbye, history of civilization. Goodbye, food.
A seed makes itself. A seed doesn’t need a geneticist or hybridist or publicist or matchmaker. But it needs help. Sometimes it needs a moth or a wasp or a gust of wind. Sometimes it needs a farm and it needs a farmer. It needs a garden and a gardener.
It needs you.”*
Join us for an interactive hands-on session to learn how you can help build local climate-resilient, sustainable food systems by growing, saving and sharing local seeds.
Bring your own seeds to share and swap. Seeds – (including lots of tomato seeds) from the KASSI Living Seed Commons will be available by donation.
We look forward to seeing you there!
* (from The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray)
LOCATION
Our in-person Member’s Meetings are held at:
205 Resource Road
Kingston, ON K7P 0K1
The location is fully accessible with ample free parking, and our meeting room is located on the ground floor.
Our Gardening Kingston banner will be located in the hallway outside of the meeting room, but hotel staff at reception will also be able to direct you.
Click on the map image below to link to the Google Map and a more detailed view of the surroundings.
Gardening Kingston 