Thank You SSYS Volunteers!
Another Amazing Sunday from the Surrey Stewardship Youth Squad! You are amazing people! Gratitude for the great help, both mentors and workers all building community in such good ways!!
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WEAF Community Art Project
Creating Art with the Sun and Water
The PLOT garden provides opportunities to engage and appreciate the four elements of Water/Earth/Air/Fire. These elements are essential for growing food and creating art. The vegetables, herbs and flowers that provide inspiration and food for thought are captured in beautiful cyanotypes.
NMW at the Fusion Festival
The Newton Medicine Wheel Travels
The PLOT was invited to bring the Medicine Wheel to the Surrey Fusion Festival, BC’s largest free multi-cultural celebration, showcasing and celebrating the cultural diversity of Surrey
The PLOT Sharing Garden and Newton Medicine Wheel Team created a temporary Medicine Wheel and Grandma Amy used it as a beautiful teaching tool.
Project WoW
Plant a Word and Watch it Grow!
Words planted, growing hopes, wishes and dreams, left for the air, sunlight and soil to nourish.
Summer Solstice Celebration
Summer Solstice celebration and observation with our Newton Medicine Wheel Cree Elder and Mentor Amy Eustergerling; Manchus S’Kwao, Earthworm Woman.
Opening the Heart of Newton
Walking a Labyrinth is an ancient custom for Prayer, Meditation and Clarity.
It is a sacred healing space designed to return you to your centre, to your deepest heart, then back out into the world.
The building of this Heart is the story of one woman’s healing path and recovery from trauma. It is about life affirming acts of reclamation and regeneration. It shows how the restorative work of the individual can become that which unifies and heals not only the Newton community but also all community.
Heart of Newton Labyrinth 1
It takes a village to feed the heart, and it is the heart that nourishes the village. Volunteers from the Newton community helping to lay the foundations for “The Heart of Newton Labyrinth”. Stay tuned for another work party! Save the date Sunday June 11 for opening ceremony and celebration.
PLOT Tour, 10 am, May 24
Come to the PLOT for a garden tour with our very own Master Gardener and Chartered Herbalist, 10 am Wednesday May 24
A Sunbow on Sunday!
Amazing day at the PLOT today! Sunbow appeared in the sky as we laid out the the lines for the soon to be “Heart of Newton Labyrinth”. Newcomer Dory sheared all our sod benches with loving zen care, Sherree Lee sharpened and cleaned tools, Giselle and Zena prepared branches for painting for medicine wheel pots, scarlet runners were planted, much of the soil was moved, and a beautiful bouquet of PLOT radishes was presented! AND FIRST Salad from our own garden greens For PLOT Pot Luck!!! Oh, and the sun was shining!!!
Please be a volunteer
Come join us tomorrow, Sunday May 21st!
Plant seeds! Weed a bed! Wheel some soil! Enjoy a potluck with friends of the PLOT!
Work party 10 am- 3pm, potluck mid-day. See you there!
GARDEN TO DO LIST: ( PLEASE FEEL FREE ADD IDEAS TO LIST )
– Finish bed extensions in the squash field.
– Finish moving top soil, wheelbarrowing to new beds and extensions.
– Edge perimeter flowerbeds around the Medicine Wheel Flower beds. ( dig out turf and define edges of these newly expanded flower beds)
– Sheer back grass on sod benches
– Weed out grasses and certain invasive weeds from garden beds (buttercup, hairy chickweed, dock etc. We will have sample weeds available as a guide for those wishing to weed) PLEASE NOTE; Some weeds such as mullein, dandelions and plantain are being left in the garden in some areas for pollinator/medicinal teaching. Opportunity to learn more about this on Sunday for those new to the concept)
– planting scarlet runner beans, radish, early corn, carrots, lettuce and other seeds.
– checking potato wire worm traps and preparing more
– check water trays for bees
FOR THE ARTISTS AND ARTISTS AT HEART
– Painting lath pieces to make them ready to use as plant markers in the garden.
– Weaving and placing Branches to create backing for one of the newer sod benches. ( branches on site)
MEDICINE WHEEL:
– Tidy around larger stones that anchor the directions in the medicine wheel. (Using the south stone as an example of what needs doing)
– Clean out a few of the medicine wheel planters that contain the grasses. Divide and replant as needed and transplant others to other areas of garden.
Next week we will begin a couple of NEW SCHEDULED TIME SLOTS for those who cannot make Sundays:
For those asking for evening times:
Teresa will be at the Plot Monday May 22 from 6 to 8pm
For those needing morning ;
Wednesday May 24 from 7:30 am to noon.
Please note: Come out anytime! This is OUR garden and it belongs to the community! Each unique contribution is what makes it thrive!