Despite my predictions to the contrary, UVic Grounds moved in last night, went to town with their heavy machinery before putting up a beautiful fence. Ball’s in the guerrilla gardeners court now.
Posts under ‘Food’
Guerrilla gardeners ask for the moon
The lawn diggers of UVic finally released a set of demands (PDF). Do these things or the lawn gets it. Oh, wait… What exactly do they want? The first and most logical demand is for new community garden space, preferably smack in the middle of campus. They also want a giant educational farm, 15 acres [...]
UVic guerrilla garden reappears
The guerrilla gardeners at UVic have — technically still are — struck again, replanting the garden in front of the McPherson Library. With the current community gardens under threat of being turned into a warehouse, students decided to take direct action and plant a garden in the middle of UVic. That work was subsequently ripped [...]
The future of Oak Bay allotment gardens
Oak Bay’s allotment gardens are expanding. With the recent clearing of the land on the south side of Bowker Creek, space was created for a dozen new garden plots. Given the expansion, Oak Bay Parks and Rec thought it would be a good time to talk about the future of the allotment gardens with many [...]
Alternative fuel cars redux: burning what you should eat
GDS Digital, who have a great set of interesting infographics on Flickr, have done this wonderful one on grain use: eating vs biofuel. Image is licensed Creative Commons By Attribution. Hattip to Urban Cartography.
Estevan Village Food Roots market has returned
Yesterday marked the return of the Food Roots pocket market in Estevan Village. This means good, local produce is now available every Thursday from 3pm to 6pm. Of course, I had to go down buy some vegetables, take a few pictures and chat with people. When I was there around 4pm, it was fairly busy, [...]
