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<span style="font-size:14px">In Today's Letter:<br>
Enjoy a garden poem - Apply for funding</span></h2>
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<span style="color:#A52A2A"><span style="font-size:14px">Green Thumb Forum: </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:14px">February 16, 1:30 p.m. at KW Habilitation, 99 Ottawa St. S., Kitchener </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color:#A52A2A"><span style="font-size:14px">Seedy Saturday: February 20 </span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif"><span style="color:#000000"> <span style="font-size:14px">9:00 AM - 2:30 PM at Kitchener
Public Library, 85 Queen St. N., Kitchener </span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:12px">For more information e-mail or call </span></span><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="color:#000000"><a href="mailto:askus@kpl.org" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">askus@kpl.org</a>, </span><span style="color:#000000">Phone:
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<strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#A52A2A">Cambridge City Green Annual Event: Foodscaping</span>: March 30 6 - 8:30 PM at Cambridge City Hall Atrium </span></strong>Edible Landscaping at home, school and community <br>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><strong><span style="color:#A52A2A">Ontario Horticultural Association’s 110th Convention: </span></strong></span><strong>July 29-31, 2016 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, </strong>105 King Street East, Kitchener. Competitions in the Art,
Creative Writing, Photography, Publications and Youth schedules and Competitions Guidelines <a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=f40b684cc6&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">are
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<strong><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:#A52A2A">Funding Opportunities</span></span></strong></div>
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<a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=2bc3b3ad52&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Turn Green dreams into reality:
</a>Grand River Conservation Foundation: Grants worth up to $1,000 are given to groups with registered charities throughout the watershed. Elementary school can apply for grants up to $750 for schoolyard naturalization projects.
<strong>Deadline Feb. 29</strong><br>
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<a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=03f2ceb26c&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Real Food Media:</a> Enter the short film contest by
<strong>March 1 </strong>midnight EST for a chance to win a total of over $15,000 in cash prizes this year with wide distribution with media partners. All Entries must be made specifically for the Contest. Remixed or shortened versions of footage are welcome,
but Entries must not have been publicly screened, posted on the Internet, or screened at a film festival in the same format. </div>
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<a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=73a5656c8b&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Kitchener Festival of Neighborhoods</a>: Inclusive Kitchener
neighbourhood gatherings where people meet and connect between the dates of Oct. 1, 2015 and Sept. 30, 2016 may qualify for a 21,000 neighborhood improvement grant.
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Register your event</a> with the Festival of Neighbourhoods before <strong>October 5, 2016</strong> for the final draw.
<strong>Early Bird Registratio</strong>n prizes will be drawn March 31, May 31 and July 31. Attend the Festival Finale at Kitchener City Hall on October 16 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, when the draw for the improvement grant will be held and the winner announced.<br>
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<a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=b572346b16&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Whole Kids Foundation:</a> All schools in Ontario are eligible
to apply to a new Farm to School grant program that will to deliver $500,000 to schools in Ontario and British Columbia. These grants, valued at up to $10,000 each, will bring the harvest to schools by funding Farm to School Salad Bar programs that engage
students and community in gardening, cooking, preserving, purchasing and serving healthy local food at school.Grant guidelines and the application form can be found on the
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Farm to Cafeteria Canada website</a>. All questions relating to the grant can be directed to Farm to Cafeteria Canada:
<a href="mailto:farm2schoolgrantscanada@gmail.com" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">
farm2schoolgrantscanada@gmail.com</a>. Grant applications are due on <strong>March 15, 2016. </strong><br>
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<span style="color:#800080"><span style="font-size:16px">A Community Garden PACT: Alfred Rempel</span></span></h2>
<span style="color:#800000">The community garden is the place,<br>
a place where we learn of the health of our soil,<br>
a place where we learn of the health of our neighbourhood,<br>
a place for participation,<br>
where we learn of the health of our neighbour,<br>
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The community garden is the small village,<br>
During a time of globalization, integration, innovation, and always on/never off-connection,<br>
It offers a retreat to a natural place,<br>
a place to find an avocation,<br>
where the cycles of nature are honoured.<br>
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Community gardening is the art of the common place,<br>
A place where ideas are planted and consensus can grow,<br>
Encouragement is the nutrient that quickens the spirit,<br>
A place to begin the conversation,<br>
Concern for the other……our extended self,<br>
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The garden is a crossroads for our community,<br>
It is part of the language of acceptance.<br>
It a place to discover the strengths and potential of our community.<br>
A place to begin the transformation,<br>
The community garden is a foundation on which to build a positive future.</span><br>
<span style="color:#696969"> </span>
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<span style="color:#800080"><strong>P</strong></span><span style="color:#800000"> articipation,</span><br>
<span style="color:#800080"><strong>A</strong></span><span style="color:#800000"> vocation,</span><br>
<span style="color:#800080"><strong>C </strong></span><span style="color:#800000">onversation,</span><br>
<span style="color:#800080"><strong>T </strong></span><span style="color:#800000">ransformation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:17px"><span style="color:#A52A2A">Trees Canada: Edible Tree Program </span></span></h4>
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Funding up to $4,000 is available to, community gardening groups, community housing projects, schools, parks and arboretums.
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Click here</a> to learn more about who can apply and <a href="http://community-gardens.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35142b171499414495bb3d602&id=e63c36ddfd&e=bbbef9db8d" style="color:#336699; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">
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Submit your Edible Trees application</a> by <strong>February 27</strong>, 2016.<br>
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The Waterloo Horticultural Society wants to promote Community Gardening this year and will need a plot for a newly proposed Community Gardening club where a group of new community gardeners will learn the basics and then use a plot to try their hand at growing.
Are there any Waterloo gardens that are interested in donating a plot or two? Please
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<strong><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif"><span style="color:#A52A2A"><span style="font-size:14px">Recent Findings:</span></span><br>
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Public Health (Oxf).</a> 2015 Oct 29. pii: fdv146. A case-control study of the health and well-being benefits of allotment gardening.
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Griffin M</a>3. Self-esteem, mood and general health were measured in 136 allotment gardeners pre- andpost- an allotment session, and 133 non-gardener controls. ANCOVA revealed that allotment gardeners had a significantly better self-esteem, total mood disturbance
and general health (P < 0.001), experiencing less depression and fatigue and more vigour (P < 0.0083). Allotment gardening can play a key role in promoting mental well-being and could be used as a preventive health measure.</span>
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