Type of Event: Plant Sales, Fairs and Shows

DETAILS:

• Thank you for your generosity! Your book donations help us with our mission to preserve, protect, maintain and enhance the public areas of the Central Experimental Farm.
• FCEF volunteers are ready to unload your boxes and bags of gently used and re-gifted books.
• This is in preparation for next year’s Used Book Sale. 
• Please respect Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada property and do not drop off books except on official drop-off days. Thank you!

Please come and join us at our monthly meeting to discuss gesnariads, participate in the leaf and plant exchange, and participate in educational talks and presentations.

Now is the perfect time to sow native seeds. Join the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library to learn about native plant gardening and receive free native seeds for winter sowing. No gardening experience is required!

Visit the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library website for more information about events, to browse the seed catalogue, and to shop for garden signs and magnets. www.wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

What can you expect to find at our Bazaar?
– Food
– Body Care
– Craft Goods
– Home Décor
– Jewels
– Stationery
– Woodwork
– For Kids
– Evergreens

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– No carts or buggies are permitted

– Bring your own reusable bags or carrying methods

– Please note there is only 2m of space between the tables

– All pets are welcomed

– Food truck will be available on-site

– Washrooms are available inside greenhouse and store

– Space will heated and covered

– Please donate with cash and/or non-perishable goods to the Richmond-Munster Food Bank

– Parking is FREE

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Did you know you can get your Christmas evergreens at Ritchie’s?
– Christmas Trees
– Planters
– Poinsettias
– Wreaths

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ALL OUR VENDOR SPOTS ARE FULL

Please note this market is for local artisans, crafters and direct sales small business owners as this is NOT a flea market for selling used items or for multi-level marketing businesses.

Now is the perfect time to sow native seeds. Join the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library to learn about native plant gardening and receive free native seeds for winter sowing. No gardening experience is required!

Visit the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library website for more information about events, to browse the seed catalogue, and to shop for garden signs and magnets. www.wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

Popcorn night with a Garden Guru, plus an indoor-plant swap and a visit from the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library group!

In-person at St Mark’s Church, 1606 Fisher Ave, and online

(*For those tuning in online, please note that Linda Chalker-Scott’s talk will begin at 8:00 p.m., to give those on-site time to have coffee, do the plant swap and pick up wildflower seeds.)

Linda Chalker-Scott will give her presentation over Zoom, but we’d like to turn it into a bit of an event, for those who might like to view the talk on our big screen at St. Mark’s. We’ll have popcorn to munch while watching the screen, and an indoor-plant swap. Bring a plant, take a plant. Any leftover plants will be given away to attendees in a draw.

7:15-8:00 BEFORE THE TALK … Kristina Rudnitski from the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library will be on hand from 7:15 until the talk begins with information about gardening with native plants and the benefits they bring to the local environment. Late fall/early winter is the perfect time to sow native seeds, and the Seed Library will have a small selection of native plant seeds on hand that you can take home–for free–with simple instructions for winter sowing.

8:00 LINDA’S TALK … Honing Your B.S. (Bad Science) Detector: Informed gardeners want the latest plant and soil science information to use and pass on, but how to tell what’s science – and what’s pseudoscience? This talk will focus on honing your B.S. (Bad Science) detector and provide you with some guidelines for evaluating articles, books, and electronic resources objectively. We’ll then use those guidelines to evaluate information on several products and practices of interest to gardeners everywhere. Dr. Chalker-Scott has prepared a guidance list, copies of which are available for her presentation.

The presentation will also be live broadcast on the OHS YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMkJSn2gaoejcGCdzK6xRWg

ABOUT LINDA … Dr. Chalker-Scott is a professor in the horticultural department at Washington State University and is their Extension Urban Horticulturist. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences. She is the award-winning author of five books, and is featured in a video series, ‘The Science of Gardening’. She also is one of the Garden Professors, a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages.

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