Meeting Wed. Feb. 22

What's the buzz??

Spring is just around the corner

AND

Paul Dickie is coming to teach us

all about bees!!

It sounds like he's pulling out all the stops to give us a great talk
starting at 7:30pm.

We will have some social time

from 7pm - 7:30pm.

Feel free to bring magzines, books, seeds, plants, etc. to swap/share.

As always, we will have a box on hand for donations to our local food bank.

Hope to see you all soon!

Wed. Feb. 22nd
ps: scroll down to see recent posts...

Nation's largest public Food Forest takes root on Beacon Hill

Nation's largest public Food Forest takes root on Beacon Hill

Can you imagine a 7 acre urban oasis of public food?

Seattle can!!

After nearly three years of planning, Beacon Hill residents are breaking ground on what will be the nation's largest public food forest.  Read more...

History In The Making

Have you ever visited this wonderful living tribute to Peggy Of The Cove located at 10235 Peggy's Cove Rd., Glen Margaret, NS?

"Peggy of the Cove was the title given to the sole survivor of a shipwreck on Halibut Rock, Nova Scotia, near the famous fishing village, Peggy's Cove. Her story is being developed from legend to reality through song, books, dolls and museum by local author, artist, photographer and storyteller, Ivan Fraser."

Ivan has contacted the PAGC to see if we would be interested in helping him establish his first official garden this summer!  More details to follow!

Check out this eye-catching tourist attraction at peggyofthecove.com and enjoy the beautiful paintings, artwork and landscape surrounding his wonderful stories of Peggy Of The Cove.  What a great Sunday afternoon destination!!

Mark Cullen in Windsor, Feb. 10

Passing this along for your info...

Hello my name is Susan Wright and I'm helping with a fund-raiser sponsored by Windsor Home Hardware.

On Feb. 10, 2012 from 7-9 pm CTV/ATV Garden expert Mark Cullen will be in Windsor NS at the Imperial Theatre.

Coinciding with his presentation is a concert by very talented grades 7-12 band students from West Hants NS who are traveling on a band trip to Quebec in May 2012.

The evening will feature an informative talk with Mark Cullen followed with a Q&A session and a musical interlude in the middle.

Tickets to the event are $10 and maybe purchased at the door with every ticket holder receiving a gift bag valued at $10 and a chance to win several door prizes!

Oh did I mention there will be a reception to follow with homemade treats! All the proceeds will go to our talented kids' trip to Quebec. We hope you'll come out to support this great event and get to talk to Mark Cullen. For more information about this event you can contact the Windsor Home Hardware or drop me an email.

Thank you
Susan Wright (band parent)
susanp_wright@eastlink.ca

Marjorie Harris Visits The Maritimes

Welcome Spring in

Charlotte County

April 28th

With Marjorie Harris

Canada’s Best Known Gardener

And Prolific Garden Writer

“Let’s Stop Making Ugly Gardens”

From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Registration (9 to 10)

New Brunswick Community College in St. Andrews, NB

Light breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Trade show and door prizes

Tickets $20

Second ‘local/Maritime’ speaker to be announced

For more information please call

Deborah at - 506-529-3696 – debleealways@yahoo.com

Mary at - 506-529-4940 - caseychocolate@yahoo.ca

Garden Club - Meeting Tomorrow!

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January has certainly flown by! Flight is right on theme for our meeting tomorrow night.... Bob MacDonald is our guest speaker and he will be doing a special presentation that highlights birds and winged things in our gardens! Here's hoping that the weather keeps cooperating so we have clear roads tomorrow night! Hope to see you then! Wed. Jan. 25th http://thepagc.blogspot.com contains all of the details! Hope to see you there!

Please let us know if you would like to change your email address for these notices. Contact us at  thepagc@gmail.com

Gingerbread boys

Lebkuchen

½ cup butter

¾ cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 cup molasses yellow dock syrup

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cloves

½ teaspoon chilli powder

Cream butter and sugar, then add egg and molasses. Sift in dry ingredients, mix.  Turn out on a surface and knead in enough flour to make smooth dough.  Roll flat and cut into shapes.  Bake 350 for 15 minutes. 

John's Old Fashioned Shortbreads

John has kindly shared his old fashioned shortbread recipe!!

John's Old Fashioned Shortbreads
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 3/4 cups soft butter
Mix these together well in a mixer but not too high speed, or you will incorporate too much air into the mix, just med. speed.

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup cornstarch
Mix these dry ingredients together very well before adding to the butter/sugar mix.

Mix everything together at low speed untill it is all incorporated. (Mixture will be crumbly like biscuit dough).

The next part is a bit messy, I use disposable latex gloves.

Portion out maybe 1/4 of the dough onto parchment paper and squeeze the dough into a log, shaping with a knife and the parchment, or you may scoop out the dough like cookies if preferred. Once shaped, this dough may be frozen for later use, or used immediately.

Place the cookies (sliced with a knife or scooped) onto a parchment lined tray.
Bake 325 degrees for about 15 min.
When the edges are slightly brown, remove from oven and cool.

Val's 2 cents:
For a real twist, add a light sprinkling of lavendar buds and a bit  of lemon peel!

Enjoy!
John

NSAGC Convention 2012 Registration

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Paul Despres <pdespres@av.eastlink.ca>
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Subject: NSAGC Convention 2012 registration form is now online

Hello all, could you pass/forward on the following info to your District Clubs please.

The NSAGC Convention 2012 Registration form is now online at the NSAGC Website and will hopefully be in the next NSAGC Newsletter as well. It is important to note that the Old Orchard Inn will only hold 60 rooms for us until the 8^th of May 2012, so people wanting to stay at those facilities should book before that date.

As an aside, we will endeavour to get a small bus for the Vineyard tours, but we have nothing firm yet. Seeing that all tour location are within a 5 to 10 minute drive from the Old Orchard Inn,  we will at least have maps for everyone.

For those looking to send photos for the Photo Contest, have them sent to the following address (see "Contests/Photo Contests" tab on website for rules):

Paul Despres

2150 Harmony Road

Nicholsville, NS

B0P 1C0

Paul Despres

NSAGC Webguy

NSAGC Convention Registration Chair

NSAGC Photo Contest Chair (temporary)

Nicholsville, Nova Scotia

902-847-1001

Fw: Garden Club Exclusive: 20% Off All Indoor Plants

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Wed. Dec. 14th Holiday Potluck Social

Our annual holiday potluck social is just around the corner - Wed. Dec. 14th at 7pm!!

Our social organizer, Joan Jandron, has arranged everything except the food! She has asked us to give her an idea of what each of us is planning to bring... sandwiches, finger foods or sweets. You can reach her via email at wjandron@hfx.eastlink.ca or by phone at (902)443-7304.

We are looking forward to having a chance to celebrate the holiday season together!

We will once again be collecting for the local food bank at each meeting, so please bring along a food item for the donation box - every bit helps!

Discover Your Roots!!

Hi everyone!

Wendy and Valerie had a great time talking about the benefits of just a few of the roots you'll find in your garden this time of year (plus a few side notes!! :)

They have shared their presentation with the Garden Club and it is now posted in the sidebar.   Feel free to forward any questions for them via the Email Us button!

Wendy has promised to share her gingerbread cookie recipe too!  We'll post it here soon!

Thank you to everyone who came out in the rain to show their support this week. We look forward to seeing everyone at the December 14th Garden Club Social!