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When? November 21 3pm-5pm Where?  Meet at the Roddick's Gates at 2:30pm; destination is on the 13th floor of the 1455 Maisonneuve E. (N.B. You must get to the 12th floor, turn left, right, left, and take the stairs to the 13th floor) What?   You are invited to join Campus Crops in a tour of the Concordia Greenhouse, located at the downtown campus of Concordia University. The tour will be a quick go-around of the physical installations of the greenhouse, accompanied by the presentation of some cool projects and activities offered by the greenhouse. Participants are invited to ask questions about the involvement of the greenhouse at its host university and in the greater urban agriculture movement in Montreal. The tour will be followed by a movie at 5pm (not hosted by Campus Crops)."Know Your Mushrooms" is a movie about the beautiful world of fungi and their multiple applications, from food to bioremediation. Email any question regarding the tour at campuscrops@gmail.com Fa...

Facebook event As part of the Zero Waste Week !

Meeting hours have been changed for the semester. General meetings - Mondays at 5:30pm.   We talk about day-to-day management of the group, activities, orientation, envisioning, etc. Not very formal unless it needs to, it is for people who are interested in making decisions regarding the struggles and activities of Campus Crops. Workshop meetings - Saturdays at 2pm.   Organizing tool for everyone who has interest in food politics and agriculture/gardening, and ideas for workshops, events and activities to bring those topics to other people at McGill or elsewhere. Gardening hours - Saturdays at 3pm and Tuesdays at 3pm. Gardening in the gardens with other gardeners.

We share with you here the zine/guide we put up for Rad Frosh 2013. It contains a non-exhaustive list of CSAs, markets, local food, and organic/sustainable stores in Montréal, as well as resources for urban gardeners and freegans. You can download it in web format or print format, or simply read it below.   Web by syloglu

Join us at the garden for a 30-minute workshop on seed-saving on Saturday August 31 at 4:30pm. We will demonstrate, using plants we grow in the garden, how to save seeds from most of the crops you love. Seed-saving, if done properly, is a cheap way to get quality seeds for the next year's garden with just a little bit of extra planning and work. With more experience, you can start selecting seeds from particular plants to get crops that will suit your preferences. The workshop will be followed by the usual gardening tasks, namely watering and/or harvesting. Find the Facebook event here .

It's been a while since we posted anything about our crops. Hopefully your plants have been growing as well (or even better) than ours so far! First of all, we have been uploading photos of our gardens regularly since early July. A slideshow showing the growth of our crops through time can be found on the right-hand side of the blog ("Watch the garden grow!"). And we also finally built our own spiral garden! We had to find bricks first, so we ended up making it quite late and our herb seedlings didn't really appreciate, but now it's up and the herbs are not doing that bad. Have a look! Freshly made. Freshly planted. About a month later. ================================= We also started harvesting some of our crops and are waiting for others to fully ripen. The rattlesnake beans. The cherry tomatoes. The peas. The strawberry blite. The spaghetti squash (so many!!). The beets. The ground cherries. The pepper. The sunflowers. The tomatillos. The tomatoes. ===========...

Here's a nice table we adapted from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Quebec (MAPAQ) . Note that the seasonal availability may change depending on the growing season, the region, the specific market, the producers, etc. Also, corn, oats, rye, buckwheat, barley, spelt, kamut and soy DO grow in Quebec, contrarily to what some people think. SOBAYA noodles are a good example of a product made of locally-grown grains (made in Quebec from grains grown in Quebec).