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Grow Regina would like to say a big thank you to Mike’s Independent Grocer for your thoughtful plant and seed donations you have provided for gardeners over the past couple years. Thank you for your support in helping to make our gardens grow.

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Well it has been a long time coming but we finally have a date set for the installation of the Co-op Community Gazebo designed by Victor Cicansky.

Important Dates:

• On April 29th and 30th 2021 safety fencing will be going up around the area.

• On May 3rd-5th 2021 the Gazebo is being installed.

Remember Safety First

• Please remember the COVID-19 no-gathering rules are still in place, so only come to the garden to go to your own plot – and admire the Gazebo from there.

• If you are in the garden on these dates please be careful and watch for machines and trucks, etc. especially on Monday May 3rd.

We can’t have any kind of grand opening event right now due to COVID restrictions – so lets all celebrate together but apart 🙂

Thank you to our sponsors, project volunteers and gazebo artist!

Thanks to all, we couldn’t have done it without you

• Victor Cicansky for his artistic genius for the Gazebo design

• Co-op Community Spaces Grant

• The City of Regina

• Yvette Crane – Volunteer Project Lead

• Lakeview Community Association

• City Councillor Bob Hawkins and wife Marie-France Menc

• And to the many other donors, Grow Regina gardeners, volunteers and contributors

If you would like us to rototill your garden plot, please email plowingforpeople@gmail.com or call Mary at 306-539-5187.

Please provide the following information: name, plot number, phone number and email address.  Also please mention the week which you would prefer to have your rototilling done. We will do our best to accommodate these requests.  Our goal is to have all rototilling completed by the May long weekend, depending on the weather, of course.

Plowing for People accepts etransfer, which is our preferred method of payment. We are set up for automatic deposit, so you won’t need a code word.  Please etransfer your payment to plowingforpeople@gmail.com

Rates for rototilling are as follows:
10’x10′ plot $20
10’x20′ plot $25
20’x20′ plot $35
20’x30′ plot $45

Plowing for People is a registered non-profit charity in the province of Saskatchewan. Our goal is to provide excellent service and garden rototilling at a reasonable price. All of our workers are volunteers and all profits go to charities chosen by the Board of Directors of Plowing for People. In 2020, our donation went to help bring a refugee family from South Sudan to Canada. This family is being sponsored by St. Mary’s Anglican Church.

The long-awaited “Co-op Community Gazebo”, designed by our own, world-renowned artist Victor Cicansky, is going to be installed this fall.

In fact, the first stage – the Gazebo’s foundation – will begin on Monday September 21st. It will be amazing to finally see this beautiful & functional piece of public art we have been fundraising and planning for over 12 years, finally realized.

The gazebo will not take up any existing garden space. It will be placed in the Center circle of the garden – that was the planned spot for this gazebo from the very beginning drawings when the garden was first planned.

Funding for this project did NOT come out of gardener fees. The majority of funding came from the Co-Op Community Spaces Grant for 90,000. We also received a donation from City Councillor and Lakeview Community member Bob Hawkins and his wife Marie-France for $5000 and a matching grant and separate donation from Lakeview Community Association for a total of $6000. And we got a grant from the City of Regina for $30,000 as well. So a big THANK YOU to all who have helped make this possible, including Yvette Crane who has lead the Gazebo fundraising and Project committee.

Here are some of the things you will need to know for the coming weeks:

1) Water will be turned off early this year. The City will be turning off the water on Thursday September 17th. Please do plan to water-in everything you need to – including any perennials, or if you have orchard trees – very well this weekend or early next week.

2) A Safety fence will be erected around the centre circle so you may find you have to get to your garden by a different route. Please stay safe and be mindful of any heavy equipment.

3) The GFL organics bin for your garden wastes will be re-located – likely to an area near the front of the garden. (Queen St.)

4) This may be a great year to plan to finish your harvest and clean-up early! Remember the deadline to have your garden completely cleaned out is Monday October 12th. That includes all boards, sticks, cages, structures etc. etc. Unless you request & have approval to leave a structure: https://growregina.ca/grow-regina-structure-approval-request/

Thank you everyone for a wonderful gardening season and we are so excited for the culmination of this project!

-Grow Regina