Langdon Community Garden 50/50 Cash Raffle Fundraiser now live!!

Please consider supporting our local community garden with our 2022 Cash Raffle Fundraiser!

50/50 tickets on sale now until June 26, 2022. Draw date will be June 27, 2022.

An amazing group of volunteers help us plant and maintain the gardens, allowing us to provide fresh produce to local food banks!

Tickets on sale now. Thank you for helping us help others ❤️

https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/langdon-community-garden?fbclid=IwAR3DGhJEkO-KBMwNi2J6heWvkqVnVo5iBp8rpVf882UcBRQnLmsJotrW9fY

Ready for the 2022 growing season!

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We are so excited for a great 2022 planting season.

We have 20 garden plots, available for lease at $45.00 for the season. We also have tasting gardens, children’s gardens and large gardening plots where our volunteers grow food for local area food banks.

That $45.00 gets you a 6×12 foot plot, filled with rich soil, access to water and tools as well as support from our community garden volunteers.

Get your kids involved, no better way to try new things when you have watched your veggies grow!  Plant an herb garden, a tea garden, heck, fill the whole thing with potatoes! If you’ve never gardened, their are few things more rewarding, then watching what you’ve planted, poke out of the soil, and blossom into this amazing plant.

You can download our rental agreement and waiver of liability below, and message us at Langdoncommunitygarden.com to reserve your plot. They’re filling up fast!

Take a minute to check out our sponsorship opportunities as well!!

Thank you Langdon for your support.

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Ready for 2019

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We are so excited for a great 2019 planting season.

We have 20 plots, available for lease at $45.00 for the season.

That $45.00 gets you a 6×12 foot plot, filled with rich soil, access to water and tools as well as support from our community garden volunteers.

Get your kids involved. Plant an herb garden, a tea garden, heck, fill the whole thing with potatoes! If you’ve never gardened, their are few things more rewarding, then watching what you’ve planted, poke out of the soil, and blossom into this amazing plant.

You can download our rental agreement and waiver of liability below, and message us at Langdoncommunitygarden.com to reserve your plot. They’re filling up fast!

Take a minute to check out our sponsorship opportunities as well!!

Thank you Langdon for your support.

 

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Grand Opening

The Langdon Community Garden Grand Opening was a huge success. We partnered with many community organizations, to celebrate some of the wonderful things happening in our community. It was a spectacular day. A special thanks to Rollie Ashdown, our counsellor, Leela Aheer, our MLA and Martin Shields our MP for being present on this very special day.

Garden Heroes

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If you haven’t been out to see what’s happening at the Langdon Community Garden site, you might want to go take a look, because it’s pretty darn awesome.

Let’s talk about our garden heroes for a minute.

Hero numero uno – Brayden Szakaly (403) 969-1160 from Wild West Land Services and his crew have been amazing. They’re like, “Meh, it’s for the community? We’re there!!” They have the expertise, they’re reliable, professional and have a community minded focus. They’d all look pretty great in a cape too. Just sayin’

Hero number two – James Lang from WoodnEarth Developments (403)990-5082. Another local gent, who got shwangled into helping us out, by his darling wife Jill Beaton. He has been our sounding board, voice of reason, an all around knowledgeable guy, and the fellow that ALWAYS shows up. And he would look fabulous in a leotard I might add.

Local Heroes, who jump in when they’re needed. They don’t ask for anything in return. They’re trustworthy, honest, reliable, people, who make the overwhelming, not so overwhelming.

Looking for reliable contractors, give them a call.

Lastly, is it just me, or does Batman look strange in this picture? lol

 

We have lift off!!!

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We’re so excited, we’ve wet our plants!!

The Langdon Community Garden Society is thrilled to announce that FINALLY after three years of processes, procedures, policies, presenting, pleading, pleasing and persuading, WE’RE FINALLY GOING TO BE PLANTING!!!

In the coming weeks, our superheroes from Wild West Land Services, are going to be swooping into the park, to start skimming off soil to make our pathways, wheelchair accessible areas, children’s area, and teen area. Then, the garden team is going to come in and put down the edging, and then comes the aggregate. There will be some serious work happening.

Next is where the community comes in! On April 29th, 30th and May 1st, we need volunteers to come by and help in the park while we build the raised garden beds for the project.

You can visit https://www.volunteersignup.org/RWKLX to sign up for a 3 hour time slot or come the whole day if you like! It’ll be some very rewarding work, building garden plots for the food bank, for persons with disabilities, children, teens, and decreasing barriers to all around healthier living.

Thank you for your patience and time.

Ground Breaking

groundbreaking-ceremony-shovels-thumb128506071“What is a ground breaking?” A question one of our green teens asked their team lead the other day. We sort of laughed, and the response given was, “you literally, break the ground…..shovel in dirt, snap a picture, you’re done.” I started to think about it more. When we refer to “ground breaking ideas” though, we’re talking about innovation, pioneering, “breaking new ground”.  I’d like to think of this project as somewhat ground breaking. Not in the arrogant sense, as I’m well aware of the amazing work many communities have done in this area. I mean in the sense that this is ground breaking for our community. The momentum it creates will be ground breaking. The initiatives and ideas generated from this project to help others, and to support the community will be ground breaking. What we’re able to give back to our local foodbanks will be ground breaking.

So on that note, we are hosting a GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY on Saturday, October 3rd at 1:00pm in Langdon Park.

Our Langdon Girl Guides will be doing a tree planting ceremony. Our community youth group Synergy will be revealing their community art project.

We, the garden team will be revealing our conceptual design to the community.

We are very excited to share this ground breaking event with you.

Patience

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“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

  • Liberty Hyde Bailey

The Langdon Community Garden Society, has been working away patiently, to satisfy our ambitions for this community; to create a beautiful growing space, accessible to persons of all ages, stages and abilities.

We’re in the home stretch!! In the coming months, you will be hearing about our proposed new location, you will be seeing conceptual designs floating about, and hopefully, by this spring, we will be in a position to start building our food bank plots.

We thank everyone for their continued support and interest. Should you want to join the community garden group, feel free to contact our board at langdoncommunitygarden@hotmail.com