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[UPDATE] Hi friends! The spring meeting will be on Sunday 6th at 2pm. ****Meet at the entrance of the SSMU building (University Centre).*** Topics of discussion will be as followed: 1. Presentation of Campus Crops and current situation 2. Starting the season          2.1 Plans and calendar          2.2 Seedlings          2.3 City of Montreal compost giveaway          2.4 Garden opening 3. Schedule for garden maintenance until May 4. Other stuff, if need be Remember that volunteers are welcome to join at any time, so the only thing you're missing if you can't come to the meeting is giving your input on stuff. Minutes will be posted. Cheers! CC

Here's a little update on last Sunday's meeting. We discussed the crops we wanted to grow this year and came up with (very, very rough) plans for the garden and container garden (below). We also decided we wanted to look into adding flowers to the gardens, as well as perennial vegetables and fruit bushes in the soil garden specifically. We'll be starting our seedlings as soon as we know we have a space in some greenhouse (we're currently looking to get into the M acDonald greenhouse). We'll open the gardens as soon as the soil is workable (probably mid to late April). We'll want to get some compost from the City of Montreal give-away if we have access to a car around that time, too. People who couldn't attend the meeting are still welcome to volunteer with us this summer. No gardening experience is necessary. If you have any question you can email us at campuscrops@gmail.com Soil garden, behind the MSE building Terrace garden, behind the James Administration...

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 .