This garden is for the birds...

Birds ...  and the worms!

This morning about a dozen chickadees were happily moving their way through the food garden and trees.  When you create habitat, you create the opportunity for life to flourish in 'our neck of the woods'.

Wood available

Sadly, we've had lots of vandalism this past year.  Grade 8 and 9's have been breaking glass, starting fires, and generally leaving the place a mess.  We have leftover wood from our recent build and have removed it.  If you have a use for it, please let us know.  Tamara

Raking Leaves

The Wolfe PAC is the official care taker of the City of Vancouver Green Street Boulevards.
The annual party in October invites over 500 community gardeners.  Anyone is welcome to volunteer and help rake, prune, plant, sweep gravel or tidy up garbage on any day (since we all walk by it regularly :-)  Rakes are kept in the maintenance room and we have plenty to go around.  Even snowshovels work to keep the streets safe and teachers are welcome to bring their classes outside

Flax by Jack!

Flax is a seed we eat, and it makes Linen, a fabric we wear.  It is flowering in October
We grew oats, barley, quinoa and flax last summer!

Self Seeding Sunflowers

This boulevard was planted in 2010 as part of a living birthday cake when Wolfe turned 100 years old

Did you know?
Sunflowers are actually dozens of actual flowers, all gathered together in a group.  The outside petals are striped as they are made from several flowers 'joining hands' to create a petal around the other flowers.

Every fall, they drop seeds.  Birds and squirrels eat them and drop a few seeds as well.  We have only planted this particular Green Street garden once, but every year, new plants grow.  Even in our dry summer, they were able to survive.  Perhaps we have a mystery watering elf?

They originally were planted from West Coast Seeds Music Box variety, 

a short, multicoloured sunflower with many branches per plant.

See the Bee

We have many plants near Ontario and 26th that are popular with bees and butterflies.  We have catmint, russian sage ("magnificent plant") and bulbs from VanDusen.  Up to 200 bees have been seen and heard here at one time.  Ask gently, and they will let you pass as they are quite focused on gathering nectar - their sugar water that gives them energy to fly and collect nectar to make honey.

 

Can you see the bee?

37th Avenue is the Pollinator Corridor, complete with an Insect Hotel near Hamber Secondary!

Watering Heroes

Thanks for all the parents and families that kept the Garden hydrated this summer.
There was a leak in the annex, and the VSB shut off the water, so the inventive volunteers brought water in wheelbarrows to the classroom planter boxes behind the annex.  Well Done!