Tour of the Demonstration Garden August 13, 2023
Join us for a FREE garden tour, music, workshops, and sessions on August 13th! Agenda 13:15 First garden tour begins by Jim Davidson.13:15 Instrumental music continues with Eleanor13:45 Session on pollinators, mulch, weeding and zero-tillage begins.13:45 Compost mini-workshop begins.14:00 – 14:30 More music, plus use of this time-frame to introduce some members of the COG […]
Senior Organic Gardeners Update: “Garden Showcase”
On June 8 the Dunning-Foubert School celebrated the first year of a great program and a small group from Senior Organic Gardeners [SOG] and the Retired Teachers of Ontario [RTO] participated to the event. The Orleans’ school signed up for a three year commitment called “The Food Insecurity Project” and staff and students, under […]
Organic Farms Tour 2023
A relevant tour of 3 organic farms in Eastern Ontario led by COG-OSO On Sunday 9th July, 2023, COG-OSO organized the tour of three Certified organic farms in Eastern Ontario. There were about 25-30 interested people present throughout the day. The first farm to be visited, at 9.30 am, was the farm of Paul Desrosiers […]
The Urban Co-op Farm
Bringing Organic Farming to the City Sometimes we jokingly refer to our farm as Chaos Farm. At least parts of it. Our organic vegetable farm, BeetBox, sits on a beautiful 110 acres in the Nepean greenbelt. It is surrounded by forest and flanked by the gentle waves of the Ottawa River’s Lac Deschênes. It is […]