The New Horizons Community Garden comes to visit us

On September 21, 2008, we had our Fall

Harvest Festival. It is a time to share our garden with our neighbours and our other community garden friends. I was delighted when I found out that the members of the New Horizons Community Garden had accepted our invitation to visit our garden for our fall event.

The new Bosnian garden, named "New Horizons Community Garden" was initiated by the members of the "Multicultural Association of Bosnian Seniors and their Friends", a not-for profit organization. Their main goal is to reduce the isolation of seniors through various activities, educational workshops, social gatherings, and community sharing initiatives.

Another guest that accepted our invitation was John Slack. A very interesting person. He is an 'Agro-mineral Prospector', an organic farmer, a Bee Keeper, and he has a really good recipe for super compost!

A special surprise, was when John brought out some of his organic heirloom potatoes for every one. he brought 140 pounds of Shepherding Potatoes, and Gold Rush Potatoes. I had just received a stack of produce baskets from FoodShare- the kind you get fruit in, and it worked out wonderfully so that every one could take a basket of potatoes home!

John also took some of the gardeners and his friends around the garden and did some soil testing.

We had the Seeds of Diversity display up, and as well, the garlic that was harvested from the Great Canadian Garlic Collection was on display. We had our tent up, and as usual, Tony, our residential chef, was cooking up some goodies on the barbecue. People brought some of their favorite home cooked food, some vegetarian, and some meaty. As people arrived, they had a tour of the garden, and got to see the interesting things from other countries that some of the gardeners were growing this year.

Some of the gardeners had made pesto - we had a large supply of basil this year - the pesto was packed into small jars for fund raising, and we were able to distribute them and have a little money as well. This fund raising wasn't a feature of the Fall Harvest event, but the kind of nickel and dime fund raising that we do to help off set the cost of maintaining the community garden.

For the Recipe for Pesto please see the tab called "Recipies".