UPCOMING EVENTS:
Construction weekend! Come out this weekend (August 14-16, from 10am -7pm) for as long as you like to help us finish up some long awaited building projects we have to get done. Bring comfy clothes, snacks, and friends!!
MALOCA 10th ANNIVERSARY:
Join us on September 12th from Noon-5pm for amazing garden festivities, as we celebrate a decade of Maloca. Come enjoy workshops, tours, music, and some tasty local food. More Details to Follow!
PAST EVENTS:
SPRING DIG IN, POTLUCK, and GMM, MAY 4, 2pm-7pm.
Come out to our Spring Dig in Party and GMM!!
On May 4th, from 2-7 we are planning our annual Spring Dig-in and General
Membership Meeting. Bring comfy clothes for some invigorating digging/planting,
and stay afterwards to give us your feedback on the garden for the year! This is
also a great time to become a member for the season if you haven’t already, so
don’t forget to bring $10-$20 (whatever you can afford) to sign up!
The day includes:
Dig-in workday from 2-5:30
Potluck/GMM from 5:30-7
Bring some homemade goodies for our potluck and your own plate/cup to avoid
unnecessary waste!
Don’t worry if you can’t make it to the event, you can sign up as a member at
any time, and we will have ongoing workdays for the entire season.
(If the weather isn’t on our side, we’ll have a rain date of Wednesday May 6th.)
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YORK COMMUNITY DAY, MAY 9, 2pm
Maloca welcomes the Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club for a 3-sisters workshop. Come and learn about the 3-sisters and how indigenous people in the Americas grew corn, beans and squash together in what modern gardeners refer to as companion planting. We could also use some volunteers to help out with this event, so please contact us if you can assist us.
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MORNING WORKDAY WITH GRADE 9’s, MAY 15, 9:30-12
Maloca welcomes Grade 9 Applied Geography Students from James Cardinal McGuigan’s Catholic School. We could also use some volunteers for this event as well, so please contact us if you can help out.
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SEED STARTING WORKSHOP TODAY 2-4 pm
Wednesday March 18th from 2-4 we will be having a seed starting workshop in the FES lounge area. Please come out and enjoy getting dirty in preparation for spring! We’ll plant seeds and you can see where the Maloca season begins. Hope to see you there.
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FALL HARVEST POTLUCK
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8th
3:30 PM UNTIL DARK
Come and taste the joys of harvest time at Maloca. We will grill veggies from the garden, harvest winter squash, carve pumpkins, and enjoy the nice community we have at Maloca. If it is raining by 3pm, then we’ll be in the HNES BUILDING (between Osgoode Hall Law School and the Ross building/Scott Library) in the Faculty of Environmental Studies Lounge (at the back of the building from the main entrance). Maria and I will be at the garden from 1pm, so if you can come by earlier, please do. We will plan to start around 3:30, but feel free to come by whenever you can.
Please tell your friends and neighbours and come and join us for a great time! You are welcome to bring a dish or two, but not required.
hope to see you there! (Check the map section of this site if you don’t know where “there” is.)
Garden Potlucks
We would like to have Garden Potlucks more regularly this year, about every other week, alternating between a Tuesday workday and Saturday workday, so that everyone will have a chance at some point to be at them. They will be fairly informal, just bring whatever you want. It doesn’t have to be a full meal every time, just something small that we can sit together and share at the end of a workday, and enjoy some time relaxing together. I would suggest planning to bring food that does not need to be refrigerated, as that will just make things easier than trying to find a fridge on campus until we are ready to eat.
I have gone through the calendar from now until the end of August and selected dates for the potlucks. I think if there are any ‘rain days’ on a potluck workday that the potluck will simply be cancelled, as there would be another one coming along soon.
The dates are as follows:
Saturday May 24
Tuesday June 3
Saturday June 14
Tuesday June 24
Saturday July 5
Tuesday July 15
Saturday July 26
Tuesday August 5
Saturday August 16
Tuesday August 26
We will try and send out reminder emails before each one, and post this list of dates on the blog. If anyone is interested in planning any other social events in conjunction with the potlucks, please let us know. Thanks.
-Susie and Tom Peace (Maloca Co-Social Coordinators)
SPRING DIG – SATURDAY APRIL 26 – 1pm to 5pm
WHAT: This is our first big outside event of the spring – we’ll have lots to plant, eat and talk about! We’ll have many garden activities, a potluck meal, and our first General Membership Meeting.
WHEN: THIS SATURDAY – APRIL 26 from 1pm to 5pm (If it rains, we’ll meet the following Tuesday)
WHERE: Maloca Community Garden @ York University
See our map http://malocagarden.wordpress.com/map/
WHO: EVERYONE! Members, potential members, and anyone else interested in getting outside and sharing delicious food – there is no cost to attend!
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Community Gardening Training Sessions
Mark your calendars and register now for an exciting series of free community garden workshops coming this spring!
Engaging the Community in your Community Garden
- Saturday April 26th – North York*
Organizing and Building your Community Garden
- Saturday May 10th – Scarborough* and North York*
Resolving Conflicts
- Saturday July 12th – Scarborough*
- Saturday July 19th – North York*
* Locations to be announced
To Register or for more information, please contact Kristin Wheatcroft
Phone: 416-652-7867
E-mail: urbanag@thestop.org
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Parkdale and Toronto Horticultural Society Annual Plant Fair
May 10, 2008 – 11am-2pm
Maloca picked up lots of great perennials last year – we need to get their early to get the best finds.
See their webpage for more details: http://www.parkdaletorontohort.com/
